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Subject: Nashville, and others
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:19:51 EDT

I've read the "conference emails" with great interest.

First of all: kudos to all conference planners, great and small. The
tremendous amount of work and personal expense involved, difficult decisions, long
hours into the night -- all this work and sacrifice, just so that I can have
a great experience and terrific conversations with genealogists from across
the nation, and from across the world

I loved the Nashville conference being downtown.
Every night I walked the thoroughfare and soaked up the "alive" music, ate
the fabulously delicious BBQ at Jake's (he deserves a plug!) and it was fun to
imagine the old-time barges below the Cumberland River overlook, unloading
their cargos of cotton bales and river travelers right up onto the walkways
into the streets behind me.

This year's lecture schedule was an excellent one.
Repeat Performance had tapes available quickly and their staff is first-rate.

I'm on a conference planning committee (FGS) and I know why chicken is
served at so many meal events: the beef dishes are even more expensive. We
wouldn't be charging the rates we already charge unless we absolutely have to, and
someday, an organization will need to underwrite luncheon and banquet expenses
just to make them attendable for us. Will that mean your registration rate
goes up then? It's a hard-to-win situation for conference planners.

Enough already.
I've had rich and varied experiences at each of the conferences which I've
attended, large and small, and I am so grateful to the folks who make them
possible.

God Bless You One and All.

Bobbi King

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