It was another early start as I attended the 8 am lecture with Harold Henderson, CG presenting “Three Ways to Improve Your Speaking Ideas.” This was a very informative lecture and I will be implementing some of these ideas.
Next was “Creating Family Histories for Future Generations” with Thomas W. Jones, PhD., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS. If you ever get the chance to hear Tom Jones speak you must take advantage of it. His first piece of advice was not to go looking for ancestors but to focus on the people you have around you now and collect as much information from them as possible while you can.
“Finding the Inner Light: Researching Our Quaker Ancestors” by Diana VanSkiver Gagel, MA, OGSF was great. I have Quaker ancestors and while a lot of this lecture was focused on the United States I still learned a lot about how the Quakers worshiped and collected records.
I didn’t attend a luncheon lecture today so I went out for a walk and found something nearby.
The afternoon lecture series started with “Speak, Write, and Publish Safely: Staying Out of Copyright Trouble” with Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL. Some aspects of copyright law are different between Canada and the US but the majority of it is the same. This lecture provided a lot of food for thought.
“Researching Irish Ancestors Online” with Marie E. Daly was interesting. I knew most of it already but you never know when you may find out something new.
The conference ended with Paul Milner and his lecture “English Parish Registers: How to Access, Use and Interpret.” This was a good lecture and as usual Paul started off the lecture a little early so that people could ask some questions. Paul is a lively speaker which is great during the last session on the last day as we are all a little blurry eyed and tired.
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