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From: Sharon Sergeant <>
Subject: [MA-HINGHAM-BOOK-L] WANTED POSTERS and Gen Society flyers
Date: 15 May 00 19:11:05 EDT


Hello,
Reminder for Boston States Migrations area historical and genealogical
researchers and societies who cannot attend NGS 2000 May 31-June 3 Providence
RI. You can send flyers about your group's resources for us to pass on to
attendees. You can also send 8 1/2" x 11 Wanted Posters for your most stubborn
brick wall.

If you are attending, please visit The Boston States Migrations and WKRP
(Washington County ME/Charlotte County NB Records Preservation) table at the
Society Fair on Wednesday evening May 31st from 5:30-8pm. Materials sent to us
can then be added to the conference freebee table or retained for the next
Boston States Migrations fair, or other regional fairs, at your direction.

Over 150 "virtual attendees" sent Wanted Posters to the 1999 Boston States
Migrations fair from all over the US, Canada and England. These posters then
traveled to the Global Genealogy fair in Ontario, as well as the Gentech
conference in San Diego, California. Material for Maritimes researchers also
appeared in Sandra Devin's columns.

Ruby Cussack's St John Times NB column and queries poster in psycheldelic
colors attracted an amazing number of California researchers. Many posters
include ancestor pictures. Bold, large lettering and attractive colors are
easiest to read. Many, many poster submitters have written to tell me about
responses and contacts from the traveling posters!

Send your ancestor on a trip. Get your Wanted Poster circulating through the
regional fairs - recent statistics suggest that only 10 per cent of family
history researchers are on-line. If your local society is hosting a genealogy
fair and you would like me to send posters that mention your area, please
contact me. WKRP region posters will continue travel to the annual fairs in
Maine and New Brunswick this summer in Sharon Howland's Gen-mobile.

WKRP's Sharon Howland has published 2 books in a 13 book series with Picton
Press from compilations in her 25 years of research in Washington County,ME :
"Calais ME Vital Records" and "Alexander, ME Vital Records"
By Sharon L.Howland http://www.pictonpress.com/

Sharon Howland and I will be on hand to answer questions and distribute
regional resource flyers.

For those who are not familiar with this event, please see details of NGS 2000
at http://ngsgenealogy.org/

Send "Wanted Posters" and resource flyers to:
Sharon Sergeant
48 Lake Street
Waltham, MA 02451

See you in Providence!
Sharon
http://bostonstates.rootsweb.com

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