{"id":596,"date":"2011-09-13T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/fgs-2011-recap-of-pre-conference-activities\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T19:01:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T00:01:05","slug":"fgs-2011-recap-of-pre-conference-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/fgs-2011-recap-of-pre-conference-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"FGS 2011 \u2013 Recap of Pre-Conference Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Electric Tunnel\" alt=\"Electric Tunnel\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-zOuE2rbs7tg\/TnAY6vgIlII\/AAAAAAAAF3o\/F_2dKPuFFcU\/PreConference%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/> Like many of those on the conference committee, I arrived days early for conference prep.\u00a0 On Monday, after I sorted and organized all of the signs, I helped to stuff the bags that would be handed out at registration.\u00a0 The evening ended with dinner with fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/ilgensoc.org\/\">Illinois State Genealogical Society<\/a> board members and <a href=\"http:\/\/familytrees.wordpress.com\/\">Amy Crow<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, I spent the morning at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alplm.org\/library\/library.html\">Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library<\/a> doing research.\u00a0 While Debbie in the newspaper microfilm lab was happy to see me, she (along with the rest of the library staff) was probably overwhelmed by the crowd that swarmed the library all week.<\/p>\n<p>After my library visit, I attended to some conference duties and then it was a whirlwind of activities for the evening.\u00a0 My calendar told me I had to be in four places at once; I managed to make my way to three events.\u00a0 First, I hung out with fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apgen.org\/\">APG<\/a> members, <a href=\"http:\/\/keepingthestoryalive.blogspot.com\/\">J. Mark Lowe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lauraprescott.com\/\">Laura Prescott<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dearmyrtle.com\/\">DearMyrt<\/a> for about a half-hour prior to the Roundtable session.\u00a0 Then Myrt and I were off to the Blogger Reception held by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/\">FamilySearch<\/a>, where we met up with fellow bloggers, <a href=\"http:\/\/genealogy.about.com\/\">Kimberly Powell<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/wetree.blogspot.com\/\">Amy Coffin<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/paulastuartwarren.blogspot.com\/\">Paula Stuart-Warren<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/destinationaustinfamily.blogspot.com\/\">Thomas MacEntee<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/roundtuitgenealogy.blogspot.com\/\">Linda Swisher<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagofamilyhistory.wordpress.com\/\">Jennifer Hollick<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ancestryinsider.blogspot.com\/\">Ancestry Insider<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneamusings.com\/\">Randy Seaver<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygenealogypondering.blogspot.com\/\">Becky Higgins<\/a>, and several others.\u00a0 Paula and I had to leave the reception early to attend a small shindig with fellow conference committee members.\u00a0 My evening ended with a friendly late-night dinner with Sue Zacharias and Margaret Cheney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of those on the conference committee, I arrived days early for conference prep.\u00a0 On Monday, after I sorted and organized all of the signs, I helped to stuff the bags that would be handed out at registration.\u00a0 The evening ended with dinner with [&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":[301,357,358,25,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-genblog","category-events","category-fgs-conference","category-genblog","category-news-events","cat-301-id","cat-357-id","cat-358-id","cat-25-id","cat-39-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-9C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}