Let's try sending this again. Bette -----Original Message----- From: Bette Richards [mailto:betterichs@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 4:41 PM To: Bunker Subject: conferences Dick Eastman has given me some new ideas as usual. There is going to be an online genealogical conference. You can learn a lot about genealogy and get a lot of useful sources by attending these conferences but with air fare, hotel and conference it can be really expensive. Now there is going to be one online. It is not free but considerably less expensive than one in "brick and mortar" as Dick puts it. http://familyhistoryradio.com/fhr_sp/egeninfo.php? and click on egen conference on the left side of the page. Dick also attended a genealogy conference in London last year that was cheaper overall than those he attended in the US, in spite of the internaitonal air fare. http://sog.org.uk/events/fair.html Now that is one I would like to attend and at the same time meet all the British contacts I email all the time. One of these days. For the Aussie's here is on in Australia http://RootsForum.com/shorturl/australasian Dick also recommends a new site that handles GEDCOMS on the web. It sounds very interesting and useful. Http://ged-it.pedleyonline.com This moves any GEDCOM on any URL to the site where you can search it at leisure. You do not have to download it to your computer and use up a lot of space. Try the demonstrations. Bette