Next Saturday we're having the Greater Omaha Genealogical Society Spring Workshop, featuring Michae John Neil, nationally known genealogy speaker (& a very good speaker). His topics are: Researching the Entire Family: focusing only on the direct line can cause significant information to be overlooked and larger patterns to go un-noticed. This lecture discusses via examples, the importance of researching the siblings and at least first cousins of a direct ancestor. Beginning German Research: Beginning stages of German family history research. Land Records (Public Land States): Basics of how land is described in public land states and effective search strategies for records in these localities, including a discussion of basic terminology. Intended for the researcher with little or no experience in land records. Researching on a Tight Budget: Discusses some no-cost and low=cost ways to expand your genealogical research. Mention is also made of those times when "free" or "low-cost" is not possible. There will be a syllabus, door prizes, a bake sale, white elephant sale, a freebie table, and lunch is available at a nominal fee. Any money made over expenses is used to buy more materials for the genealogy department at the W. Dale Clark library, and we'll all find more ancestors! (We have copies of two genealogy magazines in the sign in bags.) APRIL 5, doors open at 8:15, starts at 9:00 AM. Nebraska Methodist College, 87th & Burt (use the east door, lots of free parking) in Omaha. 3rd floor, but there are elevators, lots of rest rooms...very nice facility. Members of the Greater Omaha Genealogical Society DO get a discount on the conference, and since a new membership will run through Jun of 2009, members joining for this conference actually can get in three conferences at the membership price for the price a year's membership. (Somebody said that's like US giving YOU $10 because there are three conferences in that amount of time.) You can download a flyer for the conference at _www.gogsmembers.wordpress.com_ (http://www.gogsmembers.wordpress.com) (look on the lower right hand side of the front page.) It's in PDF format, and PDF viewers I'm told can be downloaded for free if you don't have one. Email _Genclass@aol.com_ (mailto:Genclass@aol.com) to be aware that your registration is in the mail--but it must be mailed sometime this weekend so that we get it in time to process it. Plans are already in the works for the fall workshop, which won't be as expensive because we don't bring in a national speaker...so stay tuned. Date is currently set at Oct 11. See you there. I know we're going to have fun. Karen **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15&ncid=aolhom00030000000001)