This is an important update for anyone planning to attend the SCGS Genealogy Jamboree. Apologies for the long email, but there are several announcements: 1. Deadline Alert - Pre-registration cutoff 2. Deadline Alert - Special Event ticket sales 3. Speaker Schedule Changes 4. Saturday Evening Social and Zydeco La-La Dance 5. SCGS at the Simi Valley Creole Cajun Festival 6. Discount Hotel Room Block is Closed 7. Last Call for Personalized Tree-Shirts for Jamboree 8. Volunteers Needed June 2 to Assemble Packets 9. Pickup Truck Drivers - We Need You! 10. And From the Motion Picture Capital of the World.... An Extra-Special Announcement for Jamboree 1. Deadline Alert - Pre-registration cutoff. Pre-registration deadline for Jamboree has been extended to Tuesday, May 29. You will be able to register at the door as long as space is available. If you are thinking about attending the Writers Conference, we recommend that you register in advance to make sure you save your spot. You can register online at www.scgsgenealogy.com, by phone at 818-843-7247, by mail, or in person at the SCGS Library. 2. Deadline Alert - Special Event Ticket Sales. We still have space available for the special events. We cannot guarantee that tickets will be available for purchase at the door, so if you want to attend, buy your tickets before May 29. The events include: Friday night banquet with Leland Meitzler Saturday breakfast - Effective Society Management Sunday breakfast - Schelly Talalay Dardashti Saturday Night's Zydeco La-La Dance 3. Speaker Schedule Changes are announced. Revised programs will be available at Jamboree. The Jefferson-Hemings Family DNA Project session has been cancelled. We hope they will be able to join us next year. The time of Jana Sloan Broglin's "Organizing 101" on Sunday, June 10, has been changed to 11:00 a.m. The time of Bill Dollarhide's "Wagon Roads" session Sunday, June 10, has been changed to 1:30 p.m. 4. Saturday Evening Social and Zydeco La-La Dance. We still have tickets available for this fun event. This is open to the public, so if you have any Zydeco music fans in your circle of friends and acquaintances, please encourage them to attend. Tickets will be available at the door. Don't forget your Mardi Gras beads, and order your Zydeco La-La Dance t-shirt here: www.cafepress.com/scgsgenealogy/3007633 5. SCGS at the Simi Valley Creole Cajun Festival. The Creole Heritage Center in Natchitoches, Louisiana, our partner for this year's Jamboree, will have a booth at the Simi Valley Creole Cajun Festival over Memorial Day weekend. SCGS will be there selling tickets to Jamboree and to the dance. Stop by and say hi if you are at the Festival. If you would like to spend a couple of hours working the booth, please let us know. Information on the Festival is found at www.simicajun.org. 6. Discount Hotel Room Block is Closed. The Marriott has closed the discounted room block for our event. If you have not yet made your hotel reservation, you will be offered the best available price. Ask about Senior Discounts or AAA rates. When you check in at the hotel, ask to see if the discounted Jamboree rate is available. 7. Last Call for Personalized Tree-Shirts for Jamboree. This is the last week that we will be able to do the graphics work so that you can order your personalized SCGS Tree-Shirt with your family names. Send an email to jamboree@scgsgenealogy.com with the names you want on your shirt. If you haven't seen the Tree-Shirt, check them out here: http://www.cafepress.com/scgsgenealogy/569435 8. Volunteers Needed. Please help us on Saturday, June 2, to help us put together 1000 registration packets for Jamboree! The more the merrier - not to mention the more people we have helping, the faster we will finish. Call Marva Grove at 818-843-7247 or by email at scgs@scgsgenealogy.com if you can volunteer on Saturday June 2 or any time during Jamboree. Volunteer help is needed for all three days at Jamboree. 9. Pickup Truck Drivers - We Need You! Are you able to help us set up a mini-SCGS Library at the Marriott? Our load-out will be Thursday morning starting around 10am and the tear-down will be Sunday afternoon beginning at 3pm. If you have a pickup and can help us out for even a couple of hours on Thursday, June 7, and on Sunday evening, June 10, we'd be very grateful. If you have high school age neighbors or family members, we could certainly use their lifting and carrying help, too. Contact ltmyers44@myway.com if you can help. 10. And Finally, from the Motion Picture Capital of the World...An Extra-Special Announcement!! Have you ever Googled your own name? Find out what happens when Jim Killeen did just that. We were contacted by documentary film makers for a film called Google Me. The documentary follows Jim Killeen as he travels around the world meeting other Jim Killeens who turned up when Jim did a Google search on his name. Relative Genetics will be conducting DNA tests to see if any of the Jims are related, and a gaggle of Jim Killeens are meeting in Killeen, Texas (where else???) for a reunion, complete with chili cookoff and rodeo. The filmmakers will be at Jamboree on Sunday afternoon, during the lunch break, talking to participants of the Jamboree and Family History Writers Conference. This is great exposure for genealogy, for the Jamboree and for SCGS. Don't worry...if you don't want to appear on camera, you don't have to. To learn more about their documentary, go to www.googlemethemovie.com WHEW! That was a lot of news. Thanks for sticking with us on this one. There are lots of other activities going on, such as the Virtual Surname Wall, Memorial Day ceremonies in LA County cemeteries, the Ancestors Gallery, and other projects. You can catch up on those activities by checking "Breaking News" at www.scgsgenealogy.com. The Library is open to the public for research on: 10:00am - 4:00pm Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays 10:00am - 9:00pm Tuesdays 10:00am - 4:00pm on third and fourth Saturdays 10:00am - 4:00pm on first and second Sundays Closed Mondays Southern California Genealogical Society 417 Irving Drive Burbank, California 91504-2408 phone: 818-843-7247 email: scgs@scgsgenealogy.com web: www.scgsgenealogy.com