[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Fw: EEGS Seminar June 1, 2013, Winnipeg MB

[Rose Ingram]

The following announcement was received by SGGEE.

If anyone plans on attending this Seminar, please let me know.

Rose Ingram


----- Original Message ----- 
From: East European Genealogical Society 
To: 'EEGS' 
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 10:35 PM
Subject: EEGS Seminar June 1, 2013, Winnipeg MB 


EAST EUROPEAN GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY     

 

2013 SEMINAR

 

"FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY RESOURCES"

and 

"RESEARCH IN THE FORMER RUSSIAN EMPIRE"

 

(includes Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, parts of Poland and Ukraine, and other former Soviet Republics)

 

Date:                  Saturday, June 1, 2013 (full day and evening)

 

Place:                Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) 

                           45 Dalhousie Drive, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

 

Speaker:            Kahlile Mehr, MA, MLS, AG (Salt Lake City)

 

Kahlile worked thirty-five years at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, most recently as Slavic Collections Manager.  He visited archives throughout Eastern Europe on nine separate acquisition trips and has published over twenty articles and books, as well as presented papers at numerous international genealogical conferences. 

Topics:

1.      Getting the Most out of FamilySearch

2.      Online Databases of the Polish State Archive

3.      Finding Places in the Former Russian Empire

4.      The Baltic Edge of the Former Russian Empire'

5.      How Records are Acquired by FamilySearch from the Former Soviet Sphere

 

Topics 1, 2, and 5 include information that is also relevant for other areas of Eastern Europe such as Poland and Ukraine (including Galicia and Bukovina).

 

Cost:  

Ø  Members $60.00 (includes lunch)

Ø  Non-members $65.00 (includes lunch)

Ø  Dinner $28.00 each

 

(Venue provided by the LDS, Dalhousie Ward, Winnipeg, MB)

            

SEE  http://www.eegsociety.org/Seminar2013.aspx  FOR FURTHER DETAILS

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EEGS Seminar 2013