The Friends of the National Archives - Pittsfield
proudly present their Seventh Full-Day Genealogy Conference
“Life in the Past Lane VII”
Saturday, September 18, 2010Speakers:
LESLIE ALBRECT HUBER • JEAN NUDD • GREGORY POMICTER Location:
Williams Inn on the Green, Williamstown, Massachusetts Registration form now available! Please click here to download our registration form. Click to read more on the topics and speakers...
Program:
8:00 AM Registration and browse the vendor booths; deposit tickets
9:00 AM for our free raffle (Coffee, tea, scones, muffins and danish)
9:00 AM Jan Rogge, Friends’ President
9:15 AM Welcome and conference information
9:15 AM Leslie Albrect Huber
10:15 AM “Get Organized! Take Control of Your Research Projects.”
Whether you’re spending a week at an archives or an afternoon at your computer, you can’t be effective without taking time to get organized – before, during, and after your research session.
10:45AM Gregory Pomicter
11:45 AM “Electronic Scrapbooking." The lecture will demonstrate one way to collect, organize, and preserve family history documents and pictures in an electronic format. It also discusses the advantages and challenges in disseminating and preserving electronic media.
11:45 AM Luncheon – 3 choices, more details to come
1:00 PM 1:00 PM Leslie Albrect Huber
2:00 PM “Writing a Family History Your Family Will Want to Read.” Tired of reading family histories that put you to sleep after one page? Learn some research and writing techniques that will make your family history a page-turner – without consigning it to the fiction section.
2:15 PM Jean Nudd, NARA Pittsfield
3:15 PM “Using Footnote.com.”
Footnote.com is digitizing a large number of NARA’s microfilm holdings; find out what’s available and how to utilize the site from home or at the National Archives.
3:30 PM Roundtable
4:30 PM Bring your questions and ask the experts or feel free to
browse the vendor booths.
Please click here to download our registration form. About our speakers...
GREGORY POMICTER is the Assistant for Operations, Office of Regional Records Services, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). He is responsible for coordinating the activities of the Regional Archives of the United States and various records management and administrative functions of the Office of Regional Records Services. During his twenty-eight year career with NARA, Greg completed NARA’s two-year archivist training program and has worked in various management positions at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis and at NARA’s regional facilities in Chicago and Philadelphia before moving to the Washington, DC area in 1985. Greg received a B.A. degree from the University of Missouri- St. Louis and a Masters degree from St. Louis University in mathematical management science.
Leslie Albrecht Huber is a freelance genealogy writer and speaker. She has a Bachelor’s degree in history, with an emphasis in German Family history, and a Master’s degree in Public Affairs. She has worked as a professional German genealogist helping people find their German roots first through a large company and then through her own business. Leslie has taught classes on genealogy in several contexts including college and community classes and has given dozens of lectures to genealogical and historical societies at a local, regional, and national level. She is also involved in several genealogy groups. She serves as the Program Chair for the 2010 National Palatines to America Conference, the vice-president of the Worcester Chapter of Massachusetts Society of Genealogists, and is on the planning committee of NERGC. She is also a member of ISFHWE (International Society of Family History Writer and Editors) and the Genealogy Speakers Guild.
The Williams Inn is located on the village green in Williamstown, MA, at the northern junction of Routes 7 and 2. Parking is available in the rear of the Inn. We have reserved a block of rooms at the Williams Inn for Friday evening September 17. When making a reservation, be sure to let them know you’ll be attending the Life in the Past Lane conference. To contact the Williams Inn, call 413-458-9371. For complete directions, visit www.williamsinn.com. Please click here to download our registration form.
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