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NGS 2015 Genealogy Conference Program Now Available
The FULL program and registration brochure for the next National Genealogical Society conference is now online. Browse the NGS 2015 program for 
some mouthwatering sessions, workshops, tours and social events!
Why read it now, right when the holiday season is kicking off? Several events have limited seating–first-come, first-served to those who register. And registration opens December 1! So set aside your Black Friday shopping lists and read this tempting list. You may give yourself a holiday gift of attendance at NGS next spring!
Among the sessions Lisa will be teaching at NGS 2015 are NEW topics many of you haven’t heard yet:
- Tech Tools that Catapult the Newspaper Research Process into the 21st Century;
- iPad & iPhone Power User Techniques for Genealogy; and
- Six Pillars to Build Your Genealogy Business Online.
The conference will take place in St. Charles, Missouri. The 16-page brochure is downloadable here as a pdf or you can read it online here. Register at the NGS website. Can’t make it in person? They will stream 10 sessions live for you to watch from the comfort of your own home or office. (Learn more about in coming months.)
Orphaned Heirloom WWI Medal Comes Home via Facebook
Thanks to an appeal on Facebook, an old World War I medal is back with its family!
According to the North Devon Journal in the U.K., the medal was found with the belongings of a man who died in 1980. His sister only recently realized there was a name on the medal, says a story in the North Devon Gazette. She asked a nearby museum to help her return it to a living descendant.
A Facebook appeal went out for a descendant of the soldier, Private Albert Earnest Stowell, who the Gazette says served in the Devonshire Regiment.
Within half an hour a great great grandson of Private Stowell was located. The medal was returned to him at a museum ceremony.
Inspired? Click here for tips for how YOU can help orphaned heirlooms return to their families. More interested in learning more about your own family’s participation in World War I? Click here to read about Europeana’s online archive for WWI.
FREE MyHeritage Webinar: Enrich Your Tree with Photos, Stories and More
Have you started using MyHeritage.com yet? I especially recommend this genealogy and family social networking mega-site for:
MyHeritage.com is the place to make connections with relatives overseas, particularly with those who may still live in your ancestral homeland. Visit www.MyHeritage.com
- searching internationally for relatives through 26 million family trees contributed by users worldwide (and supported in tons of languages);
- “smart” searches of 5.5 billion historical records; and
- connecting with living relatives. (You can post all the family pictures here and update everyone on upcoming events. And, oh, by the way, relatives can browse the family tree while they’re looking up grandma’s birthday.)
MyHeritage has posted a new YouTube video with lots of great tricks for using their website. Watch the MyHeritage webinar here:
MyHeritage is a proud sponsor of the free Genealogy Gems podcast.
