If anyone is considering attending the next UPGS conference (April 2010), I'd highly recommend it! I had a great time and learned a great deal. Salt Lake City is certainly beautiful, with snow capped mountains practically surrounding the city. And the library is just mind-boggling. Aisles and aisles of drawers containing microfilm. The aisles were probably the same length as my house! The lectures were informative, and even the more experienced researchers could learn something new. Orvill Paller (Collections Management Specialist for Poland) explained where filming/digitizing is currently taking place in Poland. It was sad to hear that no work is currently taking place in the areas once in Galicia. Of course, meeting Ceil Jensen is always a pleasure. She's just amazing. She did a tremendous job coordinating the conference! I also met fellow list members Mike Stupinski and Jim Tye, whom I was so pleased to meet for the first time. So nice to put faces to the names. Not to mention that I was in heaven being able to discuss genealogy with other people without seeing that glazed look enter their eyes after the first minute or two. LOL Since my time was spent either in seminars or consulting with others, I got very little research done myself. However, during that time, my wonderful husband gave up his time to copy about 350 images of BMDs from the Jasienica (Mazowiecka) parish onto a flash drive, so I've been busy extracting the pertinent info from these images. I got all excited to see that an ancestor was from Koenigshuld only to find that amongst towns called Biel, Chmielewo, Nieskorze, and Kalinowo was a town called Koenigshuld! And one called Lowizenau. Shoot! I thought I'd found where they were from before they'd settled in that area of Poland. I'll have to rent the film and look at it a little more closely to see if I can find any clues to what happened to these towns. They're not in the Slownik Geograficzny and these two towns were referenced in records from 1819/1820. Nothing like a little mystery to sidetrack my research! Regards, Marie

Marie It was a definite pleasure meeting you finally at the UPGS conference. Ceil outdid herself getting the conference organized and I valued and learned much from attending it. I definitely plan to return in 2010, by then hopefully I should have more submissions to offer you of transcribed records. And I look forward to another successful conference. Jim Tye MJDallas <rwlistsboards@comcast.net> wrote: If anyone is considering attending the next UPGS conference (April 2010), I'd highly recommend it! I had a great time and learned a great deal. Salt Lake City is certainly beautiful, with snow capped mountains practically surrounding the city. And the library is just mind-boggling. Aisles and aisles of drawers containing microfilm. The aisles were probably the same length as my house! The lectures were informative, and even the more experienced researchers could learn something new. Orvill Paller (Collections Management Specialist for Poland) explained where filming/digitizing is currently taking place in Poland. It was sad to hear that no work is currently taking place in the areas once in Galicia. Of course, meeting Ceil Jensen is always a pleasure. She's just amazing. She did a tremendous job coordinating the conference! I also met fellow list members Mike Stupinski and Jim Tye, whom I was so pleased to meet for the first time. So nice to put faces to the names. Not to mention that I was in heaven being able to discuss genealogy with other people without seeing that glazed look enter their eyes after the first minute or two. LOL Since my time was spent either in seminars or consulting with others, I got very little research done myself. However, during that time, my wonderful husband gave up his time to copy about 350 images of BMDs from the Jasienica (Mazowiecka) parish onto a flash drive, so I've been busy extracting the pertinent info from these images. I got all excited to see that an ancestor was from Koenigshuld only to find that amongst towns called Biel, Chmielewo, Nieskorze, and Kalinowo was a town called Koenigshuld! And one called Lowizenau. Shoot! I thought I'd found where they were from before they'd settled in that area of Poland. I'll have to rent the film and look at it a little more closely to see if I can find any clues to what happened to these towns. They're not in the Slownik Geograficzny and these two towns were referenced in records from 1819/1820. Nothing like a little mystery to sidetrack my research! Regards, Marie ********************************* Need to contact the list manager? Write to Marie at Poland-Roots-admin@rootsweb.com ---------------------------------- Discussion of Polish food, culture, and customs are welcome on the list as long as the discussion stays pertinent to the topic of this list: researching our Polish roots. ---------------------------------- Browse the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index?list=poland-roots Search the list's archives here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?aop=1 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to POLAND-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message