{"id":52,"date":"2011-09-03T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/writing-related-lectures-at-the-fgs-2011-conference\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T00:12:49","slug":"writing-related-lectures-at-the-fgs-2011-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/writing-related-lectures-at-the-fgs-2011-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing-Related Lectures at the FGS 2011 Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-q0wJ_a_rLRI\/UOZXMOTwMeI\/AAAAAAAAHVQ\/71yt5LDg6yo\/s1600-h\/FGS2011%25255B5%25255D.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"FGS2011\" alt=\"FGS2011\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-EfKz_VaDVEQ\/UOZXMoU0tqI\/AAAAAAAAHVY\/qSeYwYJDLB8\/FGS2011_thumb%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800\" width=\"145\" height=\"140\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>If you are attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/fgs.org\/2011conference\/\">FGS 2011 Conference<\/a> in Springfield next week, you should consider attending at least one lecture related to the subject of writing your family history.\u00a0 This is a great way to learn about different aspects of writing as well as find some motivation to start capturing your stories.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although Wednesday is \u201cFocus on Societies\u201d day, there are a few lectures that are still applicable to the individual writer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9:30am \u2013 <em><strong>But It\u2019s My Family: Copyright Issues for Genealogists<\/strong><\/em>, Cath Madden Trindle<\/li>\n<li>2:00pm \u2013 <em><strong>Effective Editing and Writing<\/strong><\/em>, Pamela Boyer Sayre<\/li>\n<li>3:30pm \u2013 <em><strong>Printed vs. Online Publishing for Societies<\/strong><\/em>, Donna M. Moughty<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12:15 \u2013 <strong><em>Get Off That Fence and Start Writing!<\/em><\/strong>, Pat Richley-Erickson (this is part of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors luncheon, which is an additional fee)<\/li>\n<li>2:00pm \u2013 <em><strong>Citing Your Sources<\/strong><\/em>, Russell Lynch<\/li>\n<li>5:00 \u2013 <em><strong>Going Beyond the Bare Bones: Reconstructing Your Ancestors\u2019 Lives<\/strong><\/em>, Thomas W. Jones<\/li>\n<li>5:00 \u2013 <em><strong>Writing a Quality Client Report<\/strong><\/em>, Linda Turner (research reports are also good for your personal files and can help jumpstart the family history writing process)<\/li>\n<li>Workshop* \u2013 <strong><em>Social History and Genealogy: Writing a Family Narrative<\/em><\/strong>, Diane VanSkiver Gagel<\/li>\n<li>Workshop* \u2013 <strong><em>Writing Your Family History With Microsoft Word<\/em><\/strong>, Michael J. Leclerc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday Sessions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8:00am \u2013 <strong><em>Digital Scrapbooking<\/em><\/strong>, Linda Woodward Geiger<\/li>\n<li>9:30am \u2013 <em><strong>Build a Genealogy Blog<\/strong><\/em>, Thomas MacEntee<\/li>\n<li>9:30am \u2013 <strong><em>Write Your Family History Step-by-Step<\/em><\/strong>, Lisa Alzo<\/li>\n<li>11:00am \u2013 <strong><em>A Dozen Ways to Jumpstart Your Family History Project<\/em><\/strong>, Loretto D. Szucs<\/li>\n<li>2:00pm \u2013 <em><strong>The Place of Place in Your Family History Narrative: Anchoring Your Family History in Its Setting<\/strong><\/em>, Dawn Thurston<\/li>\n<li>5:00pm \u2013 <strong><em>Using Diaries and Journals to Add Personality to Your Research<\/em><\/strong>, Laura Prescott<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>*Workshops have an additional fee.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure if you can sign up for them at the conference, or if you had to register for them beforehand.\u00a0 I do know a few were \u201csold out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are attending the FGS 2011 Conference in Springfield next week, you should consider attending at least one lecture related to the subject of writing your family history.\u00a0 This is a great way to learn about different aspects of writing as well as find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[301,357,358,25,39,3,18,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-genblog","category-events","category-fgs-conference","category-genblog","category-news-events","category-publishing","category-writing-writing-your-way-to-the-past","category-writing-your-way-to-the-past","cat-301-id","cat-357-id","cat-358-id","cat-25-id","cat-39-id","cat-3-id","cat-18-id","cat-17-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-Q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3371,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/3371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}