Since I am unable to post to your county list directly, may I ask you the favor of forwarding the following to your list? I believe that those who are on your county list may benefit by knowing of these upcoming programs. Who hasn't had a field trip to the Carnegie Library, or at least wanted to? If you find yourself unable to forward this message, please do let me know. I sincerely appreciate your help in this matter. Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS Program Chair, WPGS ESPowell@juno.com ----------------------------- I would like to invite you to attend the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society meetings held as follows. All regular meetings are free and open to the public at the Carnegie Lecture Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Reservations are not needed. The Carnegie Library and Museums are open on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call 412-687-6811 or visit our website: www.clpgh.org/clp/Pennsylvania/wpgs.html Saturday, January 9, 1999, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Carnegie Lecture Hall. Repository and Resource Day. Learn about what types of records are in research facilities right under our noses! See how you can utilize the information tucked away in the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Library, the Darlington Library, the Hillman Library and the Carnegie Library, all located in Oakland. Each librarian/archivist will give us an overview of their holdings and what types of records they have that are of interest to genealogists. To learn more about military records, fraternal organizations, company records, railroad records, church records, coroner's and other government records, census, and other surprises, please feel free to join us. The morning joint presentation will be made by Debbie Rougeux, the reference archivist and cataloguer for the Hillman Archives and Darlington Library, and Dominic LaCava, the Associate Curator for the Archives of Industrial Society. The first afternoon lecture will be from Dr. Richard Sauers, the Museum Curator for the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Library. Dr. Sauers is a Civil War expert with more than 20 published books to his name. The second afternoon lecturer will be Marilyn Holt, Head of the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, and President of WPGS. Saturday February 13, 1999, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Carnegie Lecture Hall. Ronald E. Grim of the Library of Congress, Maps Division will present: Getting Started: How Can Maps Help Me in Genealogical Research? This is an introduction to how maps can help you locate your family. The second lecture is Using Maps to Document German Immigration and Settlement in North America. Saturday, March 13, 1999, 10 a.m., Historical Society of Western PA, 1212 Smallman Street, Pittsburgh. Research day. Last year the overwhelming interest in visiting this library warrants another look. For those of you who have been meaning to visit, mark this day on your calendar! Saturday, April 10, 1999, 10 a.m., Carnegie Lecture Hall. Cemetery Day. This will be an informative day of how to best utilize the information from cemeteries, funeral homes and gravestones. Learn how the dead can still speak to us & how we can all preserve their memories. May 12 to 15, 1999, National Genealogical Society Conference in Richmond, VA. Come and meet other WPGS members in Virginia. Friday and Saturday, June 25 and 26, 1999. Sheraton, Station Square, Pittsburgh, PA. WPGS 25th anniversary conference with Henry Z Jones, Jr. as the keynote speaker. Cyndi Howells of (www.CyndisList.com) and John Humphrey also will be speaking among others. Riverboat banquet honoring our first members of the First Families of Western Pennsylvania lineage program. WPGS members will see a conference brochure in their February JOTS newsletter. Non-members can send a SASE for more information to WPGS, 25th Anniversary Conference, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213.