[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] FEEFHS in Winnipeg

[Jerry Frank]

Full details about the Winnipeg conference are available at http://www.eegsociety.org/ConferenceAnnouncements.aspx





----- Original Message -----
From: hazel <somatrope at mts.net>
Date: Friday, May 19, 2006 1:48 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 36,	Issue 22

> Possibly I missed the information on the conference in Winnipeg 
> and I do 
> work split shifts that weekend but would like to know what and 
> where and if 
> one can just attend parts of the conference. Is everyone too busy 
> in summer 
> with holidays and family visitors etc, maybe late fall or early 
> spring would 
> be better for attendance. Just a thought.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <ger-poland-volhynia-request at eclipse.sggee.org>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 2:00 PM
> Subject: Ger-Poland-Volhynia Digest, Vol 36, Issue 22
> 
> 
> >   3. FEEFHS conference in Edmonton CANCELLED (Dave Obee)
> >
> > Message: 3
> > Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 19:57:37 -0700
> > From: Dave Obee <daveobee at shaw.ca>
> > Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] FEEFHS conference in Edmonton 
> CANCELLED> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> > Message-ID: <004801c67aef$fc8fe920$6501a8c0 at gv.shawcable.net>
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> >
> > Just a quick note to say that the Federation of East European 
> Family 
> > History Societies conference scheduled for June in Edmonton has 
> been 
> > cancelled.
> >
> > With less than a month before the conference was due to begin, 
> just a 
> > dozen people had registered. That's far lower than normal, and 
> an 
> > unmistakeable sign that the conference should not go ahead. It's 
> a shame 
> > in a way, because we had assembled a superb set of presenters on 
> Eastern 
> > European genealogy.
> >
> > The FEEFHS conference in Winnipeg, on the August long weekend 
> and a week 
> > before the SGGEE one in Edmonton, will go ahead as planned.
> >
> > Anyone who signed up for the June conference will get a refund. 
> Thanks to 
> > all those who supported the event, and a special thanks to the 
> people in 
> > the Alberta Genealogical Society who did their best to make it work.
> >
> > Dave Obee
> > FEEFHS president
> >
> >