This is it!  The last day of the 2012 BYU Conference.   Glad to have you back!  For my first stop I attended, “Find Lost Ancestors in the Draper Manuscripts,” by Mary Hill.  The Draper Manuscripts hold a gold-mine of genealogical information concerning those who lived sometime between the Revolutionary War and about 1850 in a [...]

I’m really glad you’re here!  Thanks for checking in! Day Three and I wasn’t so exhausted from the first two days that I needed extra sleep.  In fact, excited about the day’s classes, I couldn’t sleep past 6:30 AM! Today’s keynote presenter, Rod DeGiulio, titled his talk, “FamilySearch: All About Records.”  DeGiulio is a Senior [...]

It was a busy day, so I’ll cut to the chase!  Today’s lineup:  35 classes to choose from with the potential to attend 5, plus the keynote speaker, plus some evening vendor demos. The keynote speaker, John Titford, is a feature writer and genealogical consultant for Family Tree magazine, titled his presentation, “A History of [...]

It’s finally here!  The BYU Family History and Genealogy Conference, 2012, held at Provo, Utah, is a summer conference with expert presenters.   I’m extra excited about it this year because I am one of their “official bloggers.”  As such, I’ll be giving you details of each day of the conference. I live about thirty minutes [...]

Have you registered yet for Brigham Young University’s Conference on Family History and Genealogy? It’s not too late, but as the saying goes, “If you snooze, you lose!”  This is one conference you won’t want to sleep through.   Presenters are among the top in the field offering high quality lectures.  It’s not so big that [...]

If you haven’t put the date on your summer calendar for BYU’s Conference on Family History and Genealogy, now’s the time to do it.  I’ve attended this conference for many years.  Since each year has been an improvement over the past one, I’m betting this year will be the best yet.  The conference will be [...]

September 1997.  I had just begun a two year Master’s Degree program at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.  My home was in Portland, Oregon, and my husband Bruce was still a firefighter for the City of Portland, so he stayed in Oregon while I went back to school in Provo.   (We did get together [...]

Have you found heaven lately?  I did.  I spent this last week at the 43rd annual BYU Conference on Family History and Genealogy.    I felt I’d found heaven as I listened to the plenary speakers, learned from the lecturers, viewed products from the vendors, met new people, and made new friends.     Here’s a recap: The [...]

Take a road trip? Search sites your family lived? Attend a family reunion? Catch up on your reading? Hit a genealogy conference or institute? Play on the beach and get some sand under your toes? Lounge by the pool and drink lemonade?  So many choices … so little time.   When I was young, my five [...]

Did you ever want to attend a family history/genealogy conference and couldn’t? It’s painful, I know, so painful, it feels like a medical emergency!  It’s hard knowing experts are teaching and you can’t be learning from them.   You probably whined at missing topics like  “Genealogy Boot Camp” by Thomas Jay Kemp, or “Inferential Genealogy” by [...]