--- Notice - Notice - Notice --- --- Early registration deadline has been extended to 4 November 2005 --- Come join the excitement of the 29th Annual Genealogy Conference! This exciting learning experience will be held 11-12 November 2005 in Panama City Beach, Florida at the Bay Point Marriott Resort (4200 Marriott Drive). Donna Moughty, the featured speaker, is a well known genealogical instructor and lecturer and will present four exciting lectures you will not want to miss. In addition to the featured speaker, we will have Pamela J. Cooper, Amy Larner Giroux, CGSM, CGLSM, Ann Mohr Osisek, Gladys Friedman Paulin, CGRSSM, Deanna D. Ramsey, William Zehner, CGSM, and James McSweeney (NARA SE Region Archives). You will have the opportunity to participate in lectures covering Censuses, Military, Methodology, National Archives, Naturalization, Land Records, Organization, Cemetery Records and Computer/Technology. We are also pleased to announce that Dean DeBolt, noted Lecturer, historian, and author, will be the Banquet Speaker. A block of rooms is being held for FSGS. Hotel amenities include free parking, a two 18-hole PGA championship golf courses, four lighted Har-Tru tennis courts, indoor and outdoor pools, jogging trails, bicycles, etc. Beach activities include windsurfers and wave runners, snorkeling and scuba diving, private beach, Bay fishing, deep-sea sport fishing, etc. Call the Area Reservations Office at 800-644-2650 to reserve your room (be sure to mention the FSGS Conference to receive your special room rate). FSGS Conference Transportation - Elaine Powell, President of the Central Florida Genealogical Society writes that they are coordinating a group that will rent a large coach-style bus to travel to the Florida State Genealogical Society's Fall Conference in Panama City Florida. It is a 6 1/2 hour drive there from Orlando. The bus will leave Central Florida from the Wal-Mart store located at Semoran (436) & Lake Margaret (north of the airport) on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 10 a.m. and travel to Panama City and will return on Sunday, Nov. 13, leaving Panama City at 11 a.m. The bus has an on-board restroom. You can park your car at the 24-hour Wal-Mart. If they fill the bus with 47 people, the cost will be about $60. She is setting a cutoff date of Nov. 1 so that if they do NOT get enough people to fill the bus by then, people can have enough time to find alternative transportation. She will contact everyone via email (preferably) or phone on Nov. 1 to give them the update. If you are interested, contact her BY NOV. 1 at 407-282-5171 or email TheHeritageLady@aol.com. Special Conference Highlight --- Walking Tour of Historical Downtown Panama City - On Thursday, 10 November 2005, the Bay County Public Library and the Historical Society of Bay County will be offering a free tour for early arrivals. Starting at 1 p.m. at the Bay County Public Library, a one hour walking tour of Downtown Panama City will be conducted by members of the Historical Society. Following the tour at 2:00 p.m., the Bay County Public Library will have three short programs. Linda Pazics Kleback will conduct a tour of the Genealogy Room. Ann Johnson Robbins will discuss Cracker days in Florida and display antiques from her collection. Rebecca Brown Saunders will conduct a tour of the Local History Room. If we have bad weather, the Walking Tour will be cancelled, and the Bay County Public Library tours will start at 1:00 p.m. Maps to the library will be available. And be sure to leave time for research at the Bay County Public Library in Panama City. Their collection is quiet impressive. Check out their web site at www.nwrls.lib.fl.us/index.html If you would like further information, contact A. Staley, P. O. Box 441364, Jacksonville, FL 32222 Email: astaley@comcast.net or you will find the registration form online at the FSGS Web site http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs