Federation of East European Family History
Societies
International Conference
August 1 - 3, 2008 in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania
Including Over 20 Lectures and Presentations on Galicia
and Galician related topics!
The Federation of East
European Family History Societies (FEEFHS)
is holding its annual conference this year in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on August
1 - 3, 2008.
Although the conference covers material for any Central and
Eastern European genealogist, this year's FEEFHS conference in Pittsburgh proves
to be a Galician goldmine!
I personally invite EVERYONE to this year's conference,
which will be featuring over 20 lectures covering many Galician related
topics!
The line-up of speakers and topics is really impressive.
I'm especially excited to be joining Brian Lenius, aka Mr.
Galicia, in Pittsburgh. And I'm thrilled to see again
Stephen Morse, creator of many incredibly powerful searchable databases,
including the greatest Ellis Island databases around. (Yes...THAT
Stephen Morse!) Also presenting are two well-known Polish researchers and
authors, Jonathan D. Shea and Ceil Wendt Jensen.
And for you Carpatho-Rusyns out there, come see John Righetti.
And the crowd pleaser Lisa Alzo,
author, lecturer and frequent contributor to genealogy magazines. Oh,
and don't forget me...Matthew Bielawa and my bar side
chats...just don't spill any piwo/pyvo on my Lvivska Oblast map!!
If you can't make it to Lwów/Lviv
this year...why not do the next best thing?
Check out all these Galician related topics!
(There are many other genealogy topics at the conference; these are just the
ones of real importance to the Galician researcher.)
-
Locating
and Accessing Genealogical Records for Western Ukraine (Galicia)
- Land Records and Property Maps in the Austrian Empire - Focus on Galicia
-
Journey
through Galicia (Poland & Ukraine)
-
Austria-Hungary Part I: The Habsburg Heart of Europe
-
Austria-Hungary Part II: Galicia and Bukovina: Multi-Ethnic Overview and
Research Resources
-
Recruiting Rules of the Austrian Army and
Their Affects on Life Decisions of Men Who Served
-
Finding Grandfather's Regiment in the
Austrian Army
-
Greek Catholic Church Records
-
Introduction to Polish Research, Parts 1 and 2
-
Taking the First Steppes in Ukrainian
Genealogy
-
The Cyrillic Alphabet for Genealogists
-
Latin for Genealogists
-
Gazetteers (for Eastern and Central
European Research)
-
Bremen and
Hamburg: The Ports, Shipping Companies, and Agents
-
Emigration
to America: From Village to Port. Following the Paper Trail, Parts 1
and 2
-
A Survey of
Monotheistic Religions in Central and Eastern Europe with Implications for
Archival Research
-
Maps for Genealogy: Old, New and
Electronic
-
Finding Your Grandma at Ellis Island
-
Using Maps and Atlases
-
Translating Documents of Genealogical Value: Latin,
Polish and Russian
And take a look at this partial list of speakers,
all of whom are well known to Galician researchers. Come meet them face to
face!
- Lisa Alzo
- Thomas K. Edlund
- Irmgard Hein Ellingson
- Karen Hobbs
- Ceil Wendt Jensen
- Brian J. Lenius
- Kahlile B. Mehr
- Stephen P. Morse
- Dave Obee
- Jonathan D. Shea
- Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius
- Matthew Bielawa
