{"id":5350,"date":"2015-04-24T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T21:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2015-04-24T16:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T21:24:07","slug":"german-immigration-sessions-at-ngs-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/german-immigration-sessions-at-ngs-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"German &amp; Immigration Sessions at NGS 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto\" src=\"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/images\/NGS.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.ngsgenealogy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Genealogical Society 2015 Family History Conference<\/a> will be held in St. Charles, Missouri, from May 13-16, 2015.&nbsp; There are so many sessions available, covering a wide array of topics.&nbsp; Following is a list of sessions geared toward German and immigration, two of my favorite genealogy subjects!&nbsp; I\u2019ve also included sessions related to other ethnic groups.&nbsp; I did not include any luncheons (even though a good deal of the fit into this category) simply because they are a paid event and many of them are sold out.<\/p>\n<p>There are so many to choose from, which makes me happy since I will be in attendance.&nbsp; Some of them conflict with other sessions I\u2019d like to attend, so I am also registering for the <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.ngsgenealogy.org\/attend\/live-streaming\/\" target=\"_blank\">Live Stream<\/a> immigration track so I can enjoy them all (I\u2019ve noted \u201cLS\u201d for those sessions that will be part of the Live Stream immigration track).&nbsp; I was pretty impressed with the Live Stream sessions presented last year (I registered for one track; watched two of the sessions live, and then watched the other three at my leisure).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Registration for both the conference and Live Stream end on April 29, so be sure to <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.ngsgenealogy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">head over to the conference website to register ASAP<\/a>!&nbsp; The <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.ngsgenealogy.org\/agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\">entire conference schedule<\/a> can be found on the NGS Conference website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday, May 13<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gottfried Duden (Dorris Keeven-Franke, 11 AM)\n<li>Crossing the Border: How to Backtrack an Ancestor into Quebec from the U.S. (George Findlen, 11 AM)\n<li>German Digital Libraries (Baerbel K. Johnson, 2:30 PM)\n<li>Pity the Poor Pfhul: Proving Immigrant Identities (Warren Bittner, 4 PM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday, May 14<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to German Church Books (Warren Bittner, 8 AM)\n<li>The Journey to America: Federal Passenger-Ship Records (Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, 8 AM, LS)\n<li>Seventeen Repositories, One Life: Uncommon Original Sources Portray a 19th Century Prussian Immigrant (John Philip Colletta, 8 AM)\n<li>So You Think You Want to get Married: Marriage Records, Laws, and German Customs (Baerebel K. Johnson, 9:30 AM)\n<li>The New York Gateway: Immigration and Migration (Jane E. Wilcox, 9:30 AM)\n<li>Becoming an American: Naturalization Records (Julie Miller, 9:30 AM, LS)\n<li>Back to the USSR: Tracing Your Russian Roots (Amy Wachs, 9:30 AM)\n<li>He Took Her Name: Understanding German Farm Names (Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, 11 AM)\n<li>Discovering the REAL Stories of Your Immigrant Ancestor (John Philip Colletta, 11 AM, LS)\n<li>Research Jewish Genealogical Records from Your Couch (Daniel Horowitz, 11 AM)\n<li>Unscrambling the New Orleans Passenger Lists (Beth Stahr, 2:30 PM)\n<li>Bads, Bergs, Burgs, and Bachs: Finding Locations in Germany (Warren Bittner, 2:30 PM, LS)\n<li>Reading Handwritten German Church Records (Carol Wright Whitton, 4 PM) [I have attending this presentation in the past\u2026it is EXCELLENT!]\n<li>A Methodology for Irish Emigration to North America (David E. Rencher, 4 PM, LS)\n<li>Guidelines to Finding Polish Records (Amy Wachs, 4 PM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Friday, May 15<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Navigating the Best Online Sources for Irish Research (Donna Moughty, 8 AM)\n<li>Unpuzzling Ireland\u2019s Church Records (Donna Moughty, 9:30 AM)\n<li>Scots-Irish Research (Robert McLaren, 11 AM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Saturday, May 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five Proven Techniques for Finding Your Ancestor\u2019s European Origin (Thomas W. Jones, 4 PM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of these are on my list to attend in person.&nbsp; Do you plan on attending any of these sessions?&nbsp; What other conference sessions are you looking forward to attending?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Genealogical Society 2015 Family History Conference will be held in St. Charles, Missouri, from May 13-16, 2015.&nbsp; There are so many sessions available, covering a wide array of topics.&nbsp; Following is a list of sessions geared toward German and immigration, two of my [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[301,357,25,39,359],"tags":[394],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-genblog","category-events","category-genblog","category-news-events","category-ngs-conference","tag-location-germanyprussia","cat-301-id","cat-357-id","cat-25-id","cat-39-id","cat-359-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-1oi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","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=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}