Greater Omaha Genealogical Society is hosting an all day, spring genealogy conference on April 28 at the Methodist College (same place as last fall--for those of you who joined us for that one). We are bringing in a nationally known speaker who has among her specialties: Eastern Europe and researching women's lines. There are fliers for this conference available at various Omaha public libraries and LDS Family History Centers. If you are on our mailing list, you will be getting one in the mail shortly. The public is invited to attend, although members of the Genealogy Society get a discount on admission fees. (Some join to get the membership rates, and since it is also the time that people are renewing for the next fiscal year, they actually will get to attend as many as 3 conferences at member rates...quite a bargain.) Lisa's topics are: Making Census of your Family History, The Evidence! Following Online Clues to Solve Your Family History Mysteries; Silent Voices: Telling the tories of your Female Immigrant Ancestors, and Demystifying Eastern European Research. About our speaker: Lisa A. Alzo, M.F.A. grew up in Duquesne, Pennsylvania. She is the author of several books including: Three Slovak Women, Baba’s Kitchen: Slovak & Rusyn Family Recipes & Traditions, Finding Your Slovak Ancestors, Pittsburgh’s Immigrants, and Slovak Pittsburgh, as well as numerous magazine articles. Lisa serves on the Board of Directors for Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International and as Second Vice-President for the Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies. She teaches online genealogy courses for GenClass.com and the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, and is a frequently invited speaker for national conferences, genealogical and historical societies. Lisa can be reached through her web site: _www.lisaalzo.com_ (http://www.lisaalzo.com) . These all day conferences are a wonderful opportunity to meet with other genealogists and learn things that may help in locating the elusive ones that persist in hiding. Hope you can join us. You can email for a flyer, or pick one up at a meeting, or at an Omaha or area Family History Center. As usual, we will have a white elephant table with items donated for sale (some genealogy, some not). There will be coffee by donation and soft drinks and a bake sale available to raise money also for the library's genealogy department. We're trying to find a vendor that will come to one of the smaller con ferences, but we will have some materials available for sale whether we find a national vender or not. I believe we will have at least one person who sells scrap booking materials there. (One of the things several have requested is the globe magnifiers that sit on the document or microfilm reader and catch the light to illuminate it better as well as increasing the size of the print and we'll try to have a few available for sale at the conference. See the recent article about it in the Westward Into Nebraska newsletter.) We always have door prizes and an admission ticket gives you a chance for a door prize. (Last fall, everybody who was in attendance got a door prize, we had so many.) We also try to have a goodie bag with information from genealogy publishers, etc. We also have raffle items, and usually also have a 50-50 raffle. The facility, which is a block north of Dodge, on 87th is at Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing Campus in a beautiful, new building where we held last fall's conference. It's easy to find, has lots of parking available. There will be signs directing you to the place the conference is being held. Looking forward to seeing you there. Karen