| Friday, August 4th |
Lunch and Dinner - on your own |
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM |
Registration |
| Plenary Session |
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| 7:00 - 7:15 PM |
Opening Greetings EEGS - Mavis Menzies (EEGS President) & Virginia Braun/Lisa Haji Abbasi (Conference co-chairs) |
| 7:15 - 7:30 PM |
Opening Greetings from FEEFHS - Dave Obee (FEEFHS President) & Kahlile Mehr (Conference co-chair) |
| 7:30 - 8:30 PM |
15 - How Family History Library Films are Acquired from the Former Soviet Sphere (Kahlile B. Mehr) |
| 8:30 - 10:30 PM |
"Meet and Greet" Reception - Cash Bar
& FEEFHS Council Meeting |
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| Saturday, August 5th |
Breakfast - on your own. Restaurant opens at 7:00 AM |
| 7:30 - 8:00 AM |
Registration |
| Sessions |
Track 1 |
Track 2 |
Track 3 |
Track 4 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 AM |
22 - Locating Places in Poland: Gazetteers, Maps, and other Sources (Daniel M. Schlyter) |
26 - Emigration: the Decision, Preparations to Leave, and the Paper Trail (Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius) |
10 - Researching the Germans from Russia (Thomas K. Edlund) |
31 - Getting Started in Genealogy (Joan Whiston) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM |
Refreshment Break |
| 9:30 - 10:30 AM |
1 - Vital Records of Galicia / Halychyna (Poland / Ukraine) (Matthew Bielawa) |
18 - Russian Empire Genealogical Primer (Ukraine & Belarus) (Kahlile B. Mehr) |
19 - Adventures in Volhynia: Experience Western Ukraine Today (Dave Obee) |
11 - Confessions of a Genealogist (Lisa A. Alzo) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 AM |
Break to change rooms |
| 11:00 - 12:00 PM |
14 - Galician Examples of Empire-wide Austrian Records (Brian J. Lenius) |
17 - Finding Places in the Former Russian Empire (Kahlile B. Mehr) |
21 - EWZ: World War Two Immigration Records of Germans from East Europe (Dave Obee) |
12 - Genealogy Using the Internet (Denise Kolesar) |
| 12:00 - 1:15 PM |
Lunch (included with registration) |
| 1:15 - 2:15 PM |
2 - One Way Ticket: Polish Repatriation Records From the Post WWII Period (Matthew Bielawa) |
24 - Sources and Procedures for Genealogical Research in the Czech Republic (Daniel M. Schlyter) |
20 - Researching the German Colonies in Volhynia (Dave Obee) |
34 - Palaeography - An Introduction to Reading & Interpreting Old Handwriting (Elizabeth Briggs) |
| 2:15 - 2:30 PM |
Break to change rooms |
| 2:30 - 3:30 PM |
16 - Northern Bukovina Records (Ukraine) (Kahlile B. Mehr) |
8 - The 1897 census of Imperial Russia (Thomas K. Edlund) |
5 - Genealogical Records in the Prussian East (Edward R. Brandt) |
30 - Manitoba Genealogical Society Resources (Mary Bole) |
| 3:30 - 4:00 PM |
Break to change rooms |
| 4:00 - 5:00 PM |
23 - Vital Records and other Resources in the three partitions of Poland (Daniel M. Schlyter) |
4 - Hands-on Approach to Learning the Cyrillic Alphabets (Matthew Bielawa) |
6 - German Migration to Linguistic Enclaves in the East (Edward R. Brandt) |
28 - Researching Your Slovak Roots in the 21st Century (Lisa A. Alzo) |
| 5:00 - 6:00 PM |
Free Time & FEEEFHS Board Meeting |
| 6:00 - 6:30 PM |
Cash Bar |
| 6:30 - 8:00 PM |
Banquet - Greeting and Announcements |
| 8:00 - 9:15 PM |
29 - Heroes and Villains of the Ukrainian Church of Western Canada (Felix G. Kuehn) |
| 9:15 - 9:30 PM |
Draw for Early Bird Free Conference Registration |
| 9:30 - 10:30 PM |
Display and Vendor Room Open |
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| Sunday, August 6th |
Breakfast - on your own. Restaurant opens at 7:00 AM |
| Sessions |
Track 1 |
Track 2 |
Track 3 |
Track 4 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 AM |
7 - Reading Vital Records and Other Local History Documents in Latin (Thomas K. Edlund) |
27 - German Ports, Emigration Literature, and the Voyage (Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius) |
13 - A Primer for Galiziendeutschen (Germans from Galicia) Research (Brian J. Lenius) |
32 - Mennonites and Hutterites: Beginnings and early developments (John J. Friesen) |
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM |
Refreshment Break |
| 9:30 - 10:30 AM |
3 - Researching Polish Roots Across Poland and Its Three Partitions (Matthew Bielawa) |
25 - Changes in Eastern Europe and Family History Library Microfilming (Daniel M. Schlyter) |
9 - Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes (Central Index of the German People) (Thomas K. Edlund) |
33 - Mennonites and Hutterites: Migrations and Settlements (John J. Friesen) |
| 10:30 - 11:30 AM |
Free Time |
| Plenary Session |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 PM |
Ask the Experts - Questions and Answers with the Speakers |
| 12:00 - 12:15 PM |
Final announcements and questionnaires turned in to EEGS |