I am registered for the workshop, appreciate the additional information, and am very much looking forward to it. I live in Saint Louis, so it's great to have the NGS in my backyard. *Jody Clark Jones​ ​* http://www.clarkandjones.com > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 06:26:44 -0500 > From: Barbara Mathews <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [TGF] FW: NGS Family History Conference > To: "'TGF'" <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Elissa and I are the people teaching this workshop. If you've never been > to a BCG Ed Fund working before an NGS conference, it is organized > differently from other workshops or institutes. Here is how it is organized. > > Two instructors are there, each teaching one topic. (Elissa has report > writing and I have document analysis.) The group of 60 students is split > into two groups. For the morning, you listen to one instructor. Then we all > go to lunch. In the afternoon, you listen to the other instructor. > > Each session is three hours long. During that time, you listen, read, and > work. Elissa and I will come up with some practical exercises to do alone > and in groups. > > Lunch is included. We'll take it in another room, where there are circular > tables. (In the lectures, the rooms are set up classroom-style.) > > I'm looking forward to this. We are both putting together completely new > material just for the workshop, so, if you've heard us before, you'll still > be intrigued by our new stuff. > > I've got some nice problems that will take us all over the U.S. and -- if > we are lucky -- back to Europe. We'll go over confusing terminology, > resolve some thorny problems, and have some fun doing it. > > Barbara > >