Castle Mountain near Banff, Alberta. Copyright Joan Miller

Lyn, Thomas and Dick are coming to town.  This weekend.  I’m very excited to be part of the team that is bringing them here to Calgary to speak to us about genealogy.

The Alberta Family History Society is sponsoring a Family Roots seminar on October 16, 2010 here in Calgary, Alberta. Yes,  Lyn Meehan, Thomas MacEntee and Dick Eastman are our visitors.

I’m part of the AFHS PR committee that has been spreading the word about this rare opportunity to hear all three of these well known genealogists speak here in Calgary.

They are from close and far.  Lyn is the closest, from Edmonton, about 3 hours drive north of us.  Thomas is from Chicago and Dick is from the Boston area.

I have another role – and that is tour guide.  On Friday, I’m collecting our esteemed visitors and taking them to Banff and Lake Louise to view our majestic Rocky Mountains.

The weather forecast for Friday is saying showers and 6C.  Who knows if that will be the case.  We live in ‘Just wait a moment and the weather will change’ country.

Showers in Banff mean snow at the higher elevations.  A little snow on the mountains will only enhance the experience.   The glaciers around Lake Louise are sure to impress….and perhaps we’ll see some wildlife…from a distance of course.

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Update on tickets - Dinner tickets with Dick Eastman are almost sold out.  There are still seminar tickets available to hear all three of the speakers….don’t delay though.    For more information and to buy FamilyRoots Tickets go here.

• Dick Eastman – The Organized Genealogist & Conservation: Keeping UP with Technology
  
• Lyn Meehan - Records Interrogation 101 – Squeezing Records Until They Talk
• Thomas MacEntree - Social Networking for Genealogists & Become a Genealogy Blogger

Saturday, October 16, 2010
8:30 AM – 4:00 PM
(Doors open @ 8:00 AM)
Deerfoot Inn Hotel
11500 – 35 St. SE, Calgary, AB, Canada
Dinner (Optional)
Big Rock Grill
5555 – 76 Ave. SE, 6:00 PM
Speaker: Dick Eastman
Topic: “Putting the Genes in Genealogy“

For more information, logon to FamilyRoots
http://www.afhs.ab.ca/familyroots/

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Calgary is only a one day drive away from Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Montana, Idaho and Washington.  Come join us for this event!

Dick Eastman, as many of you know has been blogging about genealogy and technology for decades. On January 15, 1996, Dick Eastman  launched Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter as an e-mail publication and announced it to 100 surprised friends and acquaintances.  The editor was Pam Cerutti.

The weekly newsletter has since grown into a daily publication, still available in e-mail but also now available on the World Wide Web. The present newsletter is read by more than 40,000 genealogists all over the world. Other guest authors occasionally publish articles in EOGN.com as well.

Thomas MacEntee  (second from the left) of Geneabloggers.com with several of the Bloggers of Honor at the Family History Expo in Mesa, Arizona January 22, 23. (that’s me on right).

Thomas MacEntee is a genealogist specializing in the use of technology and social media to improve genealogical research and as a means of interacting with others in the family history community.  Utilizing over 25 years of experience in the information technology field, Thomas writes and lectures on the many ways in which blogs, Facebook and Twitter can be leveraged to add new dimensions to the genealogy experience.  As the creator of GeneaBloggers.com he has organized and engaged a community of over 900 bloggers to document their own journeys in the search for ancestors.  Thomas was recently appointed to the board of the Illinois State Genealogical Society as Publicity Chair.

Family historian, genealogist and library professional Lyn Meehan has worked in public, academic, government and historical library environments. Her thirty years’ of research experience and charismatic presentation combine to help genealogists of any level effectively navigate Internet databases. Spiked with personal anecdotes, Lyn delivers insightful search strategies and an arsenal of tactics for sidestepping common mistakes. Lyn is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and a Reference Assistant for the Edmonton Public Library Information Services Division.

The event is Saturday, October 16, 2010 and will be held at The Deerfoot Inn & Casino.  There will be a dinner event at another location at which Dick Eastman will speak.  Details to follow.

• Members have access to an extensive library of genealogy reference material and books.  Membership also includes access to Ancestry.com (through the computers in the AFHS library).
• There are Monthly meetings and special interest groups for members
• Most importantly there is support and encouragement from veteran genealogists and family historians.