Attend the NGS Banquet at the 2010 NGS Conference and you could win an iPod

Would you like to have a chance to win an 8GB iPod Touch, case, and a $15 Best Buy gift card? If you attend the NGS Banquet, you will be automatically entered to win just that! The prize package is courtesy of Best Buy 527, South Salt Lake City, Utah. The drawing for the winner will be held during the NGS Banquet on Friday night of the conference, 30 April 2010, in room 355. The winner must be present to claim the prize.

If you haven't signed up for the Banquet yet, there is still time. To add the Banquet to your existing registration, please log on at http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/attendee_registration, click on the link Register Today, proceed to search for the NGS Banquet, add to your cart, and then proceed to check out.

Presenter Profile: Liz Anderson

Liv was born in Kristiansund, Norway, and had her first encounter with genealogy at the Trondheim Archive at age 12.

Liv has worked for the Church in Family History for a total of 30 years. At first 5 years in the Evaluation Department, processing Individual entry sheets, and marriage entry sheets for temple work. She worked 11 years in the Cataloging Department, and since November of 1995 as a Scandinavian Research Consultant. She is certified by the Board of Certification of Genealogists.

NGS Class: on 28 April 2010 at 2:30 pm on the International Track

Norway/Denmark Workshop

Presenter Profile: Jay L. Verkler

Mr. Verkler currently serves as the President and CEO of FamilySearch and the managing director of the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Mr. Verkler has previously served in various executive positions within innovative Silicon Valley companies such as Oracle Corporation, inCommon Inc., TIBCO Software, Vitria Technology, Inc. and Sales.com.

Mr. Verkler studied electrical engineering, computer science and chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as Japanese and Asian studies at Harvard University.

NGS: April 28, 2010 - Opening Session

From the Granit Mountain to the Ends of the World

Take a never-before-seen video tour of the largest repository of genealogy records in the world – the Granite Mountain Records Vault. The Vault protects billions of records gathered from governments, churches, and other archives around the world. From there, the tour continues as we explore trends and resources that will enable these and other records to be viewed worldwide.

Reminder: Earlybird Registration...

The NGS "EarlyBird" registration will end on Monday, March 8, 2010 for the upcoming conference being held in Salt Lake City the last week in April. While many of the events offered are free to the public, there is a charge for the conference and the wonderful classes and workshops being offered. This discount is only available if you register early.

If you are interested in registering for this conference and receiving the early bird discount, please go to: http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/attendee_registration

See you there!

Sylvie Pysnak, AG® was born and raised in the Czech Republic. She is currently employed by the Family History Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a Slavic Research Consultant in the International Research Consultation Unit at the Family History Library. Sylvie is accredited in Czech research, has a working knowledge of many Eastern European languages and has researched on-site in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland.

She has been writing publications and has taught at various conferences since 1998. Sylvie and her husband Bernard live in Bountiful, Utah, and are the parents of four children and grandparents of very cute grandson.

NGS Class: April 29, 2010: International Track at 8:00 a.m.

Eastern Europe Workshop

Presenter Profile: Joan Evans Healey

Joan is accredited in United States-Midwestern States. She works as a Research Consultant in the United States and Canada Reference unit of the Family History Library and is actively interested in African American and American Indian research. Membership in ICAPGen and on the board of Utah Genealogical Association.

She has lectured at conferences: Salt Lake Genealogy Institute, ICAPGen, Utah Genealogical Association, and Brigham Young University .

NGS Class: April 30, 2010 at 11:00 am on The African American Track

Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Land Records

So much to learn!

Speaker Profile: Robert Raymond

Robert Raymond is a content strategy analyst for FamilySearch, the largest genealogical organization in the world. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Before FamilySearch, Robert worked at Ancestry.com for nearly six years. He is the staff trainer at a local Family History Center where he can be found in the trenches every Wednesday night. Robert is the shadow writer for one of the web’s most popular genealogical blogs and is the creator, author, and webmaster of an acclaimed family history website where he has published 1,700 pages of information, including numerous articles, dozens of personal histories, dozens of maps (several of his own creation), and photographs of hundreds of pages of genealogical records. Robert holds over a dozen technology patents and has a masters degree in electrical/computer engineering from Brigham Young University where he was honored as a Kimball Scholar.

NGS Class: Friday, April 30, 2010 at 8 a.m. on GenTrack

Doing Research in Real Time - An Exhilarating Collaboration Experience!