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Subject: Small town, Large Conference Opportunity
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 17:28:02 EDT


Speaking of conferences:

Here is a splendid opportunity for midwest genealogists.

I've attended the last two symposiums, and this is a gem of an event. The
local restaurant is outstanding, Nebraska hospitality is warm and inviting,
and this year's speakers are especially outstanding:

The third Land Records and Genealogy Symposium will be held at Southeast
Community College in Beatrice, Nebraska on Friday-Saturday, July 29-30, 2005. A
partnership between Southeast Community College-Beatrice and Homestead
National Monument gives us the opportunity to listen to nationally-known speakers on
land records and related topics.

A Friday night reception and dinner at the Monument gives symposium goers a
chance to see the prairie homestead region of Daniel Freeman, one of America's
first homesteaders.

Beatrice Public Library is the repository for the Nebraska State
Genealogical Society.

Lincoln, the state capital and home to the Nebraska State Historical Society
and state vital records offices, gives the researcher a chance to extend the
week and get a lot of Nebraska research done.

A little further away is Kansas City, where the regional NARA has Nebraska
records.

Highlights of the event include:
* Cyndi Howells as featured keynote speaker
* Christine Rose, CG, CGL, FASG: "Addicted to Courthouses!''
* Craig Scott, CGRS: "Pension Research: You Stopped Too Soon"
* Sharon Tate Moody, CGRS: "If Living Were a Crime: Evidence Our
Ancestors Left at the Scene"
* Marian Smith, U.S. Department of Homeland Security: "Immigration
Records"
* Claire Bettag, CGRS, CGL: "General Land Entry Case Files"
* Barbara Sommer and Mary Kay Quinlan, "Planning and Using Oral
History in Genealogy"

The symposium will take place at the Beatrice campus of Southeast Community
College.

For information and registration, contact Kelly Morgan at Southeast
Community College at 402-228-8244 or
(mailto:) .

APG'er's: This is a really good one, don't let it slip by!

Bobbi King

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