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Expo News June 2009 ~ Janene S. Morgan, Executive Mother Hen In This Issue - News Flash Wyoming Expo Expo in Review Utah Vital Records Prices Are Going Up - Roots & Branches A Quiltwork of Lives - Genealogically Speaking Sorting Out Duplicate Children - People, Books, Web Sites & Software Highlights Keynote speaker for Sheridan, Wyoming, Barry J. Ewell Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Campobello Sunrise, Colorado Sunset: A Life Journey - Monthly Specials RootStamps Calendar of Upcoming Events Wyoming Expo - July Salt Lake City Expo - August California Expo - October Family History Library Retreat - October - Free Monthly Gift Give-Away Patricia Battey, winner ~ June 2009 ********************************************** News Flash 
*E-340 News Flash!! Sheridan, Wyoming Expo What: Wyoming Family History Expo 2009 Family History Expos are fun, exciting, amazing opportunities to learn about the techniques and technology available to trace your roots. There are fantastic classes to choose from, vendors to show you the latest and greatest ideas, and tools to help you with your family history searches You will be so enlightened here you'll want to come back again and again. Where: Holiday Inn Convention Center 1809 Sugarland Drive Sheridan, Wyoming 82801 Ample free parking When: Friday July 17th, 2009. 8 AM to 6 PM Saturday July 18th, 2009. 8 AM to 6 PM At-the-door registration begins at 7 AM Friday & 7:30 AM Saturday Exhibit Hall: Open free to the public Keynote Address: Open free to the public Hurry to get the Pre-Registration price! Pre-Registration Cost: $75 (ends July 15, 2009) If you miss the Pre-Registration do not dispair, our At-the-door prices are still low compared to other conferences, so come learn and enjoy at the Wyoming Expo for one or two days. You won't regret it! At the Door: $85 for both days or $45 for a single day Register right now online and receive immediate access to all class syllabi! Note: Online class syllabi are available only to those who register online. Our special thanks to the Natrona County Genealogical Society for their advertising of this upcoming Expo in their area. Check out our Sponsors. They are fantastic!! FamilySearch Family Tree Magazine Sheridan Genealogical Society RootsMagic Generation Maps Genealogy Gems Podcast Herritage Collector/LifeStory Productions News Flash!! Expo in Review What a fantastic time we had in Loveland, Colorado! The newest Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center in North America is where we held this Expo! What a beautiful place to be. We've enjoyed having our new "Blogger Bistro and Twitter Cafe." Keeping up with the newest technology is exciting. We invited in a group of bloggers who have extended the Expo experience to those of you who may not have had the opportunity to join us here in Loveland. There was so much going on you just couldn't see it all! As a review for those of you new to blogging, a blog is a type of Web site. The word blog is a contraction of the term Web log. It is a chronological publication of personal thoughts, kind of like an online journal. Blogs may also contain Web links and graphics that will expand the view and understanding of a subject for the reader. A blog is frequently updated and intended for public viewing. Our bloggers were also using Twitter. Twitter is a short message service that allows users to send short text messages of up to 140 characters in length from their cell phones and laptop computers. (Of course you can use it from your desktop computer at home too!) We had several "tweets" a day coming live from the Expo followed up by blog entries that take a little more time to compose. We would love to hear what you think about this innovative way to share the Expo experience. Please be sure to give us some feedback! We invited some very special 'Bloggers of Honor' that provided us with information on their blogs and Twitter throughout the two-day Expo. Other attendees also used Twitter to communicate highlights of the activities, share photos, and link to blog posts, while they also provided additional related information. While you can follow people individually on Twitter, you can also search on the Expo hashtag #FHX09-CO (a Twitter account is not required to search). Simply go to http://search.twitter.com/ and search for #FHX09-CO Our Blogging Twitter Team that you'll have fun following are:  Holly T. Hansen, President Family History Expos, & Blogger A lifelong resident of Croydon, Utah, Holly has been a family history educator for more than 15 years. Although she sponsors elaborate events, she also enjoys helping people one-on-one as they learn how to make technology work for them. Author, lecturer, and editor, Holly devotes time every day to education. She publishes the Family History Expos Genealogy Blog and can be followed on Twitter @FHExpos.  Bernie Gracy, Keynote Speaker & Blogger Vice president of Strategy and Business Development for a Fortune 500 company. But for the last 10 years, he has also been an avid field genealogist. Bernie has a BS and MS in Computer Science, an MS in E-Commerce, writes a blog on Location-Based Genealogy at HistoricalTownMaps Blog and can be followed on Twitter @Bernie_Gracy.  Arlene Eakle, Speaker, Exhibitor, & Blogger President and founder of The Genealogical Institute, Inc., Dr. Eakle is a professional genealogist with more than 30 years’ experience in research, consulting, lecturing, and writing. An expert in tracing families from New York, Southern U.S., British Isles, Switzerland, and parts of Germany, she claims a 96% success rate. Arlene's blogs include Arlene H. Eakle's Genealogy Blog, Tennessee Genealogy, and Virginia Genealogy.  JanetHovorka, Speaker, Exhibitor, & Blogger With a BA in Ancient Near Eastern Studies and an MA in Library Science from BYU, Janet held positions at BYU and Salt Lake Community College before having her children. Janet and husband Kim own Generation Maps, an online genealogy chart printing service. She authors The Chart Chick Blog and can be followed on Twitter @JanetHovorka.  Dean Richardson, Speaker, Exhibitor, & Blogger Creator of Genlighten.com, a new online resource accessing offline genealogical records through assistance of skilled local researchers. With a BS from BYU, an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, and a PhD from the University of Arizona, Dean has pursued genealogy on an amateur basis for over 25 years. Dean contributes to the GenLighten Blog, his personal blog, and can be followed on Twitter @hikari17 or @genlighten.  Laura Craner, Blogger Mom, blogger, and writer living in Longmont, Colorado. Between caring for her three children she has been helping people write their personal histories for the last five years. Currently she is working on a book about deaf Holocaust survivors. You can read her blogging at Depressed (But Not Unhappy) Mormon Mommy and A Motley Vision: Mormon Arts and Culture.  Becky Jamison, Blogger Originally from Great Bend, Kansas, but a Colorado resident for 20 years, she was encouraged by her husband to actively research her family's history. Ten years later, Becky considers it her third greatest blessing-after family and church. She is a Church Administrator in Canon City, genealogy teacher, and FHC volunteer. Becky blogs at 'Grace and Glory' and can be followed on Twitter @beckyjamison.  Sarah Strong, Blogger This mother of two little boys and wife of a busy graduate student uses blogging as a social and creative outlet. Blogging helps her keep her personal history, share recipes and traditions, and record her family history research. Sarah also enjoys reading, crocheting, garage sales, and finding a great deal. Sarah's family history blog is Family Tree Climbing. News Flash!! Utah Vital Records Prices Goes Up Utah Vital Records Fees are going up 1 July 2009. Certified abstract birth or declaration of paternity $15 for the first copy will go up to $18. $8 for additional copies will stay the same. Certified certificate of stillbirth $12 for the first copy will go up to $15. There is a new charge of $8 for additional copies. Certified death certificate $13 for the first copy will go up to $16. $8 for additional copies will stay the same. Details can be found at these Web addresses: https://silver.health.utah.gov/applications/04%20BIRTH.pdf - Old fee schedule (see page 2). https://silver.health.utah.gov/feeincrease2009.pdf - Changes to fee schedule starting 1 July 2009. ********************************************** Roots & Branches A Quiltwork of Lives by Janene S. Morgan  
*D-052 My sister, Janel, loves to quilt. She comes by that love legally as our great-grandmother Maud loved to quilt. Grandma Maud lived with my mother's family after Grandpa Henry died. Mom can't remember her not working on a quilt. Grandma Maud had pieced together a quilt top for each of the five girls in their family. The older girls had theirs finished by their grandmother, but the younger girls just received the tops and the material for the bottoms which they put in their hope chests. There Mom's sat for years as she was busy with having six kids and raising them. 
*D-501 The first large quilt Janel made was from fabric she pulled out of Mom's hope chest where all the material scraps had ended up. It was then she found the quilt top and asked Mom about it. When I was teaching a class showing different ways to do family history—such as children's stories illustrated by children, songs, scrapbooks, shadow boxes, etc.— I decided to show how you could use poetry to tell family history. Janel had told me about who each of the blocks in her quilt were for and what the fabrics were from, so I took it from there. Here it is minus a few of the verses: Janel's Family Quilt One day as I was thinking, An idea came to me, I'd make a quilt from all my scraps For everyone to see. Each block would have the pieces That would bring back memories, Of times gone by that bring to mind What loved ones mean to me. The pieces came from things I'd made For my family, That I had kept in Mom's hope chest, Just waiting to be free. They share the fun of memories Of loved ones near to me, That I could sew into a quilt, To warm my family. (skipping down a ways) There are even squares from material That were supposed to be On the back of the quilt I did for Mom, As a Christmas surprise, you see. Her Grandma Maud had made the top, Back in the mid 30s Then packed it away in Mom's hope chest, Awaiting a quilting bee. One Christmas I had snuck it out And quilted it with glee, But did not know the back for it Was in her chest, buried! I had bought another one, So that left this one free To make the bright green squares and shapes, A reminder dear to me Of how that Christmas morning, My mother cried to see Her gandma's quilt was all made up, Quilted by Garth (Janel's husband) and me. Now in the middle of my quilt, The "heart" of it you see, Is the square that I made for my dad, Who meant the world to me. Scraps from the shirts and ties I'd made him, Sewn so joyfully, And squares of the family plaid proclaimed, A "Stewart" he must be. Those shirts he wore forever, No new ones he seemed to need, For he loved their look, he loved their feel, But most of all, he loved me. So, that completes my family quilt I made for all to see. How blessed I am to be a part Of such a wonderful legacy. Quilts are wonderful! They are full of family memories. Make sure you take pictures of your family quilts and other heirlooms. If you know the stories about the materials or objects used, and the people and memories associated with them, please write them down for those who come after you or even around you now who may not know. You'll be glad you did. 
*E-827 Happy Writing, Janene ********************************************** Genealogically Speaking Sorting Out Duplicate Children by LaRae Free Kerr 
There may be duplicate children—by different names—in your family tree. How many children did John Belcher Free and his wife, Emeline Stephens, have? There were John Finley, Margaret, Edwin, Ada Estalome and Euphrasia. Plus there were Nettie, Mattie, Sophia, and Jenetta. That makes nine children. As you will see, however, there were actually only six children. But which were they? Amazingly, Nettie, Mattie, Sophia and Jenetta were all the same child. Her name was Sophia Jenetta Free, but she was listed four times on a family group record. Do any of your family group records list too many children? Here’s a protocol for getting the kids right.
Use the above clues to determine if any of your family group records need a second look. Then follow these steps to solve any problems.
Obviously, this is another time when you must understand nicknames. Rick and Dick are nicknames for Richard, for example. Peggy is the usual nickname for Margaret, yet my friend Peggy was christened Peggy. Patsy is the usual nickname for Martha. Don’t ask me why. Al and Bert are nicknames for Albert. Bob, Rob, Bobbie and Bert are all nicknames for Robert. Any name ending in “y” or “ie” can be a diminutive of a regular name: Annie, Chucky, Katie, Wally, etc.
LaRae Free Kerr, M ED, can be reached at hitsallrelatives@sfcn.org and www.itsallrelatives.net. ********************************************** People, Books, Web Sites & Software Highlights Barry J. Ewell, Wyoming Expo Keynote Speaker Our Keynote speaker for Sheridan, Wyoming is Barry J. Ewell. Barry is fantastic! He is a Senior Marketing Manager for IBM with extensive experience in Internet and field research, and digital and software resources. Barry is a prolific writer and researcher, mentor of genealogists, and founder of MyGenshare.com. His research interests include the United States, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, Germany, and Russia. Barry has a wealth of information that he's able to share with us. You won't want to miss out! click here to see Barry's speaking schedule. Dick Eastman Online Genealogy Newsletter If you have not already subscribed to "Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter", you may want to consider it. (And we're not just saying that to be nice! Janene) EOGN is "The DAILY source of genealogy news" and is read by about 40,000 genealogists all over the world. It features descriptions of current events, upcoming genealogy conferences and expos, genealogy book reviews, software reviews, reviews of new genealogy Web sites and CD-ROM disks, tutorials, and occasional commentary about current events in the genealogy world. (And keeping up with that isn't easy! Janene) Articles are written by Dick Eastman, George G. Morgan, Lloyd Bockstruck, Michael John Neill, and occasional other guest authors. The newsletter is available in two versions: a free version that is available only on the Web at http://www.eogn.com and a subscription-only Plus Edition that is available both in a password-protected Web site and also via e-mail. You will be delighted to locate full details online at http://www.eogn.com. Campobello Sunrise, Colorado Sunset: A Life Journey By JoAnn Marie Johnson A life story in recipes, photos, and memories Our Family History Expos president,Holly, came across this article in the Denver Post and quickly e-mailed JoAnn inviting her to come to our Colorado Expo so that people could see her wonderful Italian recipe book. It was a joy to meet JoAnn and to get a signed copy of her book. My family loves to cook different cultural foods, plus my cousin Jolene married into an Italian family and I can share my cookbook with her. Here is an excerpt from the Denver Post article "A life story in recipes, photos, and memories." Click here to go to the article.
This is how Paolina Luppino started her life in America, in 1910. The day after she arrived in Pueblo, she and Carlo Passanante, who worked in the steel mill, were married at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (although they were already legally married by proxy). When they arrived at their house on Elm Street, she was greeted by her mother-in-law and the smell of simmering spaghetti sauce. What else was there to do but put on an apron and help out in the kitchen? Nine babies followed (six lived), and it would be 50 years before Paolina would return to Campobello di Mazara, in her native Sicily. In the meantime, she planted a garden and fruit trees, canned the produce, rolled pasta, and passed on her kitchen wisdom in her Sicilian dialect to her granddaughter JoAnn Johnson. Now a grandmother herself, JoAnn wrote the book not just for her family, but for a larger audience as well. "I'd like to reach the Italian community because recipes have been lost, plus they're economical for hard times...This is peasant food, but this is important. There is a lot of history in the foods that we ate as children." The cookbook portion, sans memoir, is available for $24.95 by contacting JoAnn at: nonnajohnson@comcast.net or writing her at: JoAnn Johnson 2024 Skye Court Ft. Collins, CO 80528 I'm excited to try these recipies, well, I must admit...I probably won't try the ones with brains or the snails, but the others look wonderful! Janene ***************** We would love to highlight your books, Web site, or software. Just send us a copy of the product you would like us to highlight with your information enclosed to: Family History Expos - Highlights - PO Box 187 - Morgan, UT 84050. Information on Web sites, etc. or questions can be sent to holly@fhexpos.com. ***************** Monthly Specials RootStamps 
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