We are pleased to announce that the website for the 2008 Southern California Genealogy Jamboree has been launched, and we are now taking registrations for this year's event. The 39th Jamboree will be held Thursday through Sunday, June 27-29, 2008 at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center, 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank, California. You can register online, by mail, or by phone by calling the Southern California Genealogical Society. This years 2008 Genealogy Jamboree offers a record number of presentations by nationally and internationally recognized genealogists and family history lecturers. The speakers' list includes Elaine Alexander; Michael T. Booth; Carl Boyer, III; Jana Sloan Broglin, CG; Starr Hailey Campbell; Schelly Talalay Dardashti; William Bill Dollarhide; Arlene Eakle, Ph.D.; Wendy Bebout Elliott, Ph.D., FUGA; Dick Eastman; Colleen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.; Bennett Greenspan; John T. Humphrey; Peter W. Landé; David Lifferth; Leland Meitzler; Cheri Mello; George G. Morgan; Stephen P. Morse, Ph.D.; Larry Proctor; Geoffrey D. Rasmussen; JoAnne Rockower; Beau Sharbrough; Drew Smith, MLS; Eric A. Smith; Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak; Mindi Stevens; Cath Trindle, CG; Tom Underhill; Stephanie Weiner; Pamela Weisberger; and Pam Wiedenbeck. As in years past, we have an exhibit hall filled with the most popular products and services to help you solve your genealogical mysteries. We have special events to provide lots of networking opportunities, door prizes, and many other extras to entice you. Break out your lederhosen, dirndls, and beer steins!! To commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first German immigrant to Jamestowne Colony, we are focusing our ethnic track on German, Eastern European and Jewish research. John T. Humphrey will conduct several sessions on German research, including "Thousands of Ahnentafels" that were prepared in pre-WWII Germany. We will also welcome Peter W. Landé, who will speak about the Bad Arolsen Holocaust Archive as a source for all genealogists. The archive in Bad Arolsen, Germany, recently opened to the public after long being off-limits to researchers. It contains 16 miles of shelves holding 50 million pages of documents. Most of the attention on Bad Arolsen has focused on Jewish records, but in fact, probably over two thirds of the 50 million records relate to non-Jews who were swept into the Holocaust and events in WWII for many reasons. We are very excited about the first-ever Blogger Summit, featuring many of the top genealogical industry bloggers today. Dick Eastman, Stephen Danko, Schelly Talalay Dardashti, Leland Meitzler, George G. Morgan, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, and maybe others, will put their collective heads together to discuss the pros and cons of nearly instantaneous information flow through genealogy blogs. There is so much to tell you about, we could go on for days! In fact, that's just what we're going to do. We've started a Jamboree Blog to keep you updated on the most recent happenings. It is a great way to stay in touch. Make the most out of your Jamboree experience and subscribe to the Blog (it's free) at http://genealogyjamboree.blogspot.com/. The Jamboree website at www.scgsgenealogy.com holds lots of information about the schedule, the lecture topics, the speakers, exhibitors, registration, hotel -- you name it, it's there! Check out the website, check out the blog, and register for Jamboree today!! Leo Myers and Paula Hinkel Co-Chairs, 2008 Southern California Genealogy Jamboree jamboree@scgsgenealogy.com