Send your ancestor or society on a trip! Reminder for Boston States Migrations area historical and genealogical researchers and societies who cannot attend NGS 2000 May 31-June 3 Providence RI. You can send flyers about your group's resources for us to pass on to attendees. You can also send 8 1/2" x 11 Wanted Posters for your most stubborn brick wall. If you are attending, please visit The Boston States Migrations and WKRP (Washington County ME/Charlotte County NB Records Preservation) table at the Society Fair on Wednesday evening May 31st from 5:30-8pm. Materials sent to us can then be added to the conference freebee table or retained for the next Boston States Migrations fair, or other regional fairs, at your direction. Over 150 "virtual attendees" sent Wanted Posters to the 1999 Boston States Migrations fair from all over the US, Canada and England. These posters then traveled to the Global Genealogy fair in Ontario, as well as the Gentech conference in San Diego, California. Material for Maritimes researchers also appeared in Sandra Devin's columns. Ruby Cussack's St John Times NB column and queries poster in psycheldelic colors attracted an amazing number of California researchers. Many posters include ancestor pictures. Bold, large lettering and attractive colors are easiest to read. Many, many poster submitters have written to tell me about responses and contacts from the traveling posters! Get your Wanted Poster circulating through the regional fairs - recent statistics suggest that only 10 per cent of family history researchers are on-line. If your local society is hosting a genealogy fair and you would like me to send posters that mention your area, please contact me. WKRP region posters will continue travel to the annual fairs in Maine and New Brunswick this summer in Sharon Howland's Gen-mobile. WKRP's Sharon Howland has published 2 books in a 13 book series with Picton Press from compilations in her 25 years of research in Washington County,ME : "Calais ME Vital Records" and "Alexander, ME Vital Records" By Sharon L.Howland shwkrp@aol.com http://www.pictonpress.com/ Sharon Howland and I will be on hand to answer questions and distribute regional resource flyers. For those who are not familiar with this event, please see details of NGS 2000 at http://ngsgenealogy.org/ Send "Wanted Posters" and resource flyers to: Sharon Sergeant 48 Lake Street Waltham, MA 02451 See you in Providence! Sharon http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/