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Past Conference - 2011

Conference sessions are in the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel, next door to the Family History Library. The Salt Lake Room and the Eagle Gate Room are both on the main floor. Attendees will also be encouraged to have personal consultations with the speakers each afternoon in the Family History Library.

Thursday, July 7    
8:30 a.m. Research in the Baltics
Kahlile Mehr
Introduction to Eastern European research
Dave Obee
9:45 a.m. Research in the Balkans
Kahlile Mehr
Basics of Jewish Genealogical Research
Joanne Sher
11:00 a.m. East European Internet Sites
Kahlile Mehr
The Blue Army, Grey Samaritans and the White Cross: Polish Americans in France, 1917-1921
Joanne Sher
     
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Thom Edlund and Kahlile Mehr will be available for individual consultations in the Family History Library, next door to the hotel
     
Friday, July 8 Salt Lake Room Eagle Gate Room
8:30 a.m. Online databases of the Polish state archives
Kahlile Mehr
Using the EWZ microfilms
Dave Obee
9:45 a.m. Beginning Polish Research
Dee Semon
Gothic script
Barbara Bell
11:00 a.m. Culture of Polish and Czech peoples
Dee Semon
What is Prussia?
Barbara Bell
     
     
2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Thom Edlund, Dave Obee and Barbara Bell will be available for individual consultations in the Family History Library, next door to the hotel
     
     
Saturday, July 9 Salt Lake Room Eagle Gate Room
8:30 a.m. Russian research
Thom Edlund
How family history library files are acquired from the former Soviet sphere
Kahlile Mehr
9:45 a.m. Russian handwriting
Thom Edlund
Ancestry resources for Eastern European research
Joe Everett
11:00 a.m. Russian gazetteers
Thom Edlund
U.S. sources to get across the ocean
Dee Semon
     
     
12:30 p.m. Luncheon Heritage Room
  If it's Tuesday, This Must be Lidsbark-Warminski: On the Road in Eastern Europe
Dave Obee
     
     
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Dave Obee will be available for individual consultations in the Family History Library, next door to the hotel