BURBANK, Calif.–It’s Friday, June 26, 2009, and I’ve arrived at the Burbank Airport Marriott, site of the 4oth Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree.
I came down to the lobby and who should be here but:
Thomas MacEntee
the footnoteMaven
Amy Coffin
Kathryn Doyle and
Elyse Doerflinger
As we were getting to know each other, Randy Seaver arrived and joined us. It was [...]
The 2009 Jamboree put on by the Southern California Genealogical Society will kick off on June 26, just about four months away! It’s one of the biggest “kinklaves” in the nation and certainly the biggest on the West Coast. You may recall that last year’s Jamboree featured the first-ever Bloggers Summit. This year, I have [...]
This is a fair question. I look at it from a cost/benefits point of view. The cost of the program itself for me was about $215, to which I have to add hotel costs for two nights (I was actually there for three nights, but I assign one night’s cost to another [...]
Dick Eastman was the featured speaker at the SCGS Jamboree’s Saturday Evening Social and Dinner in Burbank last week. Dick described the difference between a “name-gatherer” and a family historian and urged the crowd to be the latter, not the former.
In a speech entitled, “Putting the Genes in Genealogy,” Eastman pointed out [...]
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After the Bloggers Summit, everybody headed for lunch. And here is one of the nits I have to pick about the conference. The lunch lines were unreasonably long and there were far too few tables at which to sit. That led a number of people to head “off-campus” for lunch. Those without transportation [...]
And the Implications of That!I had said that I would “liveblog” the Jamboree. As it sadly happened, I could not, but others did. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons, each with certain implications and lessons.
FIRST: I had assumed without checking that the Marriott’s Convention Center would have wireless Internet access for all [...]
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BURBANK, Calif.–I’m about to head off to the Saturday Social and Dinner, so no more updates today. I did attend an interesting session on DNA (again!) by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, and a session called “Crossing the Color Line.” I’ll have thoughts on both of those tomorrow. Tomorrow is my travel day and [...]
Here’s a view of the T-shirt I’m wearing at the SCGS Jamboree!
From VistaPrint.com
Above: George G. Morgan, flanked by Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, and Stephen Danko, responds to a question during the first-ever Genea-Bloggers Summit on June 28, 2008, during the 39th Annual Southern California Genealogical Jamboree.
The all-star panel finds themselves looking at themselves looking at themselves thanks to Elizabeth O’Neal’s Little Bytes of Life.
Genea-bloggers gather: front row [...]
BURBANK, Calif.–As some of the geneablogosphere’s brightest stars sat on a panel discussing what they do and how they do it, the story was being scooped by genea-blogger Elizabeth O’Neal from her vantage point in the third row. At 10:28 AM PDT, less than half an hour after the session began, she posted the [...]
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