Everyone is welcome to attend the following events. They are all worth traveling to! Feel free to spread the word. See you there! Elissa Powell, CG Monday, 2 April 2007, 7:30 pm, the East Cuyahoga Genealogical Society, will have their regular meeting at Ross C. DeJohn Community Center, 6306 Marsol Drive, Mayfield Heights, OH. "Hiding behind their Skirts: Finding Women's Records" will be presented by Elissa Scalise Powell, CG. For more information contact [email protected] or write to the society at PO Box 24182, Lyndhurst, OH 44124-0182. Thursday, 11 April through Saturday 14 April is the Ohio Genealogical Society Annual Conference which will be held this year in Columbus, OH. Six lectures are offered each hour by many national speakers. No registration is required to peruse the vendor hall which is free to enter. For more information and a downloadable brochure, see www.OGS.org or phone 419-756-7294. Thursday, 26 April through Sunday, 29 April is the New England Regional Genealogical Conference which will be held in Hartford, CT. Six lectures per hour will be presented by many well-known New England and national speakers including Patricia Law Hatcher, FASG, Cyndi Howells, and Henry Z "Hank" Jones, Jr., FASG. The vendor hall is open to the public. This major New England conference is held about every other year and so this is your chance to catch it in Connecticut. For more information see www.NERGC.org. Wednesday, May 16 through Saturday May 19 in Richmond, Virginia, the National Genealogical Society will have its annual conference. With 10 lectures per hour given by the experts in our field, this conference is the ultimate in genealogical learning opportunities. There is no fee required to enter the vendor hall and family history fair to browse the hundreds of genealogical products, books, and software. For more information go to www.NGSgenealogy.org. Saturday, June 9, from 9 am to 4 pm, the Erie Society for Genealogical Research will have a one-day seminar featuring 2 talks each by Dick Eastman, Steve Morse and Jim Beidler at the Blasco Memorial Library, 160 E. Front St., Erie. Registration is $40 for non-members (including membership) and $35 for members plus lunch for $8 and $4 for a Friday night tour. For more information write the society at P.O. Box 1403, Erie, PA 16512 or email [email protected] The website is www.pa-roots.com/~erie/2007GeneConf.html. Sunday, June 10 to Friday, June 15, the Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research will be held at Samford University, Birmingham, AL with 11 various week-long courses being offered. Sign-ups are limited with some courses already reaching their maximum attendance. Some courses are offered only every 2 or 3 years so please consider attending if you see one of interest at http://www.samford.edu/schools/ighr. June 22 to 24, 2007 2007 Palatines to America National Conference and Annual Meeting at WVU Evansdale Conference Center, Morgantown, WV. "Echoes from the Past". Featured Speaker is Professor Roger P Minert, Ph.D., A.G., with material on various aspects of life for our German-speaking ancestors and German family research. Also hands-on Internet Genealogy Classes in the Computer Lab, migrations patterns, early German settlements, the craft of Scherenschnitte (German papercutting) and more. An information brochure and mail-in registration is available online at http://www.palam.org. Phone: 614.267.4700. E-mail: [email protected] It is rare that this national conference comes this close to Pittsburgh - the last one was in 1994. Sunday, June 24 to Friday June 29, 2007, the Ohio Genealogical Society will conduct its Summer Workshop at its library headquarters, 713 S. Main St., Mansfield, OH 44907. This year the workshop will feature nationally known speakers who will cover many topics of interest to Ohio and other researchers such as cemeteries, land records, church records, vital records, internet update, immigration, and military records. Presentations will also cover Pennsylvania, Virginia, New England, and German, Italian, and Scots-Irish research among others. The workshop will have problem-solving time after each session and a chance to consult with the experts and a dinner with discussion led by Shirley Hodges, President of the Genealogical Speakers Guild. The OGS library will be open late Sunday through Thursday evenings exclusively for the workshop participants, which is every genealogist's dream - to be "locked in" to a library! For more information, see www.OGS.org, or e-mail Deborah Lichtner Deal, [email protected], or call the Ohio Genealogical Society at (419) 756-7294. Elissa Scalise Powell, CG www.PowellGenealogy.com CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. http://www.BCGcertification.org/