National Genealogical Society Luncheon

Patricia W. Potrzebowski

Vital Statistics Registrars and Genealogists: 

We Need to Talk!

S431, Saturday, 10 May 2014, at 12:15 p.m.

Patricia W. Potrzebowski, PhD, Executive Director of the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information, will be the featured speaker at the National Genealogical Society luncheon. The title of her talk is "Vital Statistics Registrars and Genealogists: We Need to Talk!" NGS has selected this topic to emphasis the importance of access to vital records for genealogists. Ms. Potrzeboski's talk will cover the following key points:

• What do state registrars of vital records and genealogists have in common?

• How can state registrars and genealogists work together more effectively to achieve mutual goals?

• Why privacy, confidentiality, and security of vital records matter to all of us.

Patricia W. Potrzebowski, Ph.D. has been the Executive Director of the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems since January, 2011.  Information about NAPHSIS can be found at http://www.naphsis.org.

Previously, Trish served as the Director, Bureau of Health Statistics and Research at the Pennsylvania Department of Health, where she worked for more than 35 years.  

While there, Trish established the first designated State Center for Health Statistics in the nation, implemented an award winning statewide cancer incidence registry and immunization registry, and directed the state’s vital statistics system.  In 2001 she launched the Commonwealth Universal Research Enhancement (CURE) program with funds from the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement to provide clinical, biomedical, and health services research grants each year to universities, hospitals, and other research organizations located in Pennsylvania.  

Trish earned her Ph.D. in human genetics from the Department of Biostatistics of the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. She is a former President of NAPHSIS and received the Halbert L. Dunn Award in 1991 for her contributions to national and state health statistics systems.  Trish chaired the Panel to Evaluate the U.S. Standard Certificates that created the 2003 revised certificates, and was also a member of the 2011 Model Law Revision Work Group. 

Luncheon tickets can be purchased for $32.00 at http://conference.ngsgenealogy.org/event-registration/ through 22 April 2014. Register now before the luncheon sells out.

Also mark your conference schedule to attend the Records Preservation and Access Committee session, Thursday, 8 May 2014, 4:00 p.m., "RPAC: Access to Vital Records is Under Attack! How Can You Help?"

http://www.ngsgenealogy.org

National Genealogical Society Luncheon

Speaker Change for ISBGFH Luncheon

International Society for British Genealogy and Family History

F332, Friday, 9 May 2014, Luncheon at 12:15 p.m.

ISBGFH has announced that James Jeffrey, the speaker for the luncheon on Friday, 9 May 2014, has a health issue and will be unable to attend the NGS 2014 Family History Conference in Richmond, Virginia.
Our thoughts are with James Jeffrey as he pursues medical treatment.

In his place, ISBGFH has selected Rev. David McDonald, CG, as the luncheon speaker.

The title of McDonald's presentation is "Onward Genealogy's Soldiers: Sabine Baring-Gould as Curate, Parson, Vicar, & Squire"

The Rev. Baring-Gould, a noted antiquarian and hymnist of the 19th century served the Church of England in various roles throughout his life. While in his first charge, he wrote the famed hymn, "Onward, Christian Soldiers." We'll examine Baring-Gould and his life as curate, parson, vicar, and squire in Victorian England.

Rev. David McDonald

Rev. David McDonald, CG, is a past president of ISBGFH and BCG; and a former director of NGS and APG. He is currently a BCG trustee.

You can register for the luncheon at http://conference.ngsgenealogy.org/social-events/.

Speaker Change for ISBGFH Luncheon

International Society for British Genealogy and Family History Luncheon

British Isles ancestry?

This luncheon is for you! 

Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and English Genealogy

James K. Jeffrey, Denver Public Library Genealogy Specialist, and recipient of the P. William Filby Prize for Genealogical Librarianship, will be the speaker for the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH) luncheon on Friday, 9 May 2014, 12:15 p.m.

This is a rare treat to hear Mr. Jeffrey speak. James is an expert on Colonial Virginia research and has worked with other experts to discover previously undocumented connections to Virginia immigrants leading to their origins in the British Isles.

ISBGFH luncheon attendees are entered for a chance to win one of many door prizes. And a scholarship will be awarded to a lucky recipient for a tuition to the British Institute, 20-24 October 2014, this year to be held at the Plaza Hotel, Salt Lake City, with a value of over $400.00.

Take a break from your conference schedule to share a meal with others who are passionate about their British Isles ancestors.

For more information about the International Society for British Genealogy and Family History go to http://www.isbgfh.org.

International Society for British Genealogy and Family History Luncheon

New England Historic and Genealogical Society Luncheon

After Appomattox: Researching Confederate Veterans

in Post-Civil War America

S432, Saturday, 10 May 2014, 12:15 p.m.

Speaker: David Allen Lambert, Chief Genealogist, New England Historic Genealogical Society
http://www.AmericanAncestors.org 


This luncheon presentation will offer an overview of the records available for researching your ancestors who were Confederate veterans in the post-Civil War south. A variety of these original records can be obtained via microfilm, however many others are now digitized online.  Examples of the various pension documents offered from state governments will be shown, and where the records are currently archived.  This lecture may also prove to be of interest for the Civil War researcher or military historian, who has never used Confederate pension records in their research.

David Allen Lambert

David Allen Lambert is the Chief Genealogist of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, creators of the website http://www.AmericanAncestors.org. David has been on the staff of NEHGS since 1993. He has been researching Civil War veterans of the Union and Confederate forces for more than 25 years.  He is also a member of Co. I. 12th Massachusetts Infantry Civil War re-enactment unit in his hometown. This national speaker and  author will entertain and educate you during this luncheon sponsored by

AmericanAncestors.org / NEHGS.
 

New England Historic and Genealogical Society Luncheon

FamilySearch Luncheon

Title: Introducing your Grandchildren to your Grandparents

Speaker: Jim Ison, AG, CG

W133, Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 12:15 p.m.

Let’s spin forward 40 years to 2054. Everyone will do their genealogy using the latest in wrist watch, eye glass, hologram, and DNA technologies. Nearly everyone will trace their pedigree back to the first existence of applicable records. Our posterity will have quick access to birth, marriage, and death dates and places for hundreds or even thousands of direct ancestors.

With this future in mind, let’s take another look at the question posed by Dennis Brimhall, FamilySearch CEO, in his keynote address at RootsTech 2013: “What would your grandchildren or great grandchildren have wished you would have done?” Instantly upon hearing this question, I knew that I must introduce my children, grandchildren, and future generations to my parents and grandparents and great grandparents as “real” people, not just names, dates, and places.

Fortunately, soon after this keynote, FamilySearch fortified my new resolve by releasing Photos, Stories, Documents, and Sources as fabulous new features at https://familysearch.org/. Now I really could introduce my grandchildren to my grandparents. Since key events in the lives of our ancestors can be lost in just three generations, preserving can be even more important than researching.

Learn several strategies I used to introduce my children and grandchildren to my grandparents, especially how Lorilla Spencer, a teacher from the plains of South Dakota, and Frank Ison, a seaman from the farms of Bavaria, met in the hills of Eastern Kentucky. And why researching the “Ison” surname will quickly lead to brick walls unless you know the rest of the story.

Jim Ison

FamilySearch Luncheon

Federation of Genealogical Societies Luncheon

Title: The Real War of our Civil War Ancestors: Stories of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank

S433, Saturday, 10 May 2014, 12:15 p.m.

“My Dear Wife,

Day before yesterday I dressed the wounds of 64 different men - some having two or three each. Yesterday I was at work from daylight till dark - today I am completely exhausted - but shall soon be able to go at it again… Yours as ever, W.C.”  [William Child, Major and Surgeon with the 5^thRegiment New Hampshire Volunteers September 22, 1862 (Battlefield Hospital near Sharpsburg)]

Johnny Reb and Billy Yank marched off to war, fresh-faced and young. Most of them paused to have a tin-type photograph taken to send to family back home. Their politics may have conflicted but their stories were often the same: young men fighting a difficult war, never to come home again.

Through letters, diaries, journals, battle reports and reminiscences, Ken Nelson, AG, brings the stories of Civil War soldiers alive. A fiancé is asked to escort her beloved’s body home, a telegraph operator learns through the wire of his brother’s death, a mother grieves for her sons. First person accounts transform facts into stories of the challenges our ancestors, both on the front line and back home, faced in war.

Ken Nelson, AG will present The “Real War” of our Civil War Ancestors: Stories of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank during a Saturday luncheon (S433) sponsored by the Federation of Genealogical Societies. Sign up for the luncheon and learn how you can bring your Civil War Ancestors back to life through their own words or the words of fellow soldiers, neighbors and friends.

For more information about FGS go to http://www.fgs.org/.

[written by Marian Pierre-Louis, marianpl@fieldstonehistoricresearch.com]

Federation of Genealogical Societies Luncheon