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FEEFHS/SGGEE Joint Conference 2009 Milwaukee

We will offer two concurrent sessions for most of the conference. Attendees will also have access to the SGGEE research room while the sessions are on.

Presentations are available in PDF format -- requires Acrobat Reader or equivalent.

Friday, July 24

8:30 a.m.
Dave Obee: Genealogy 101
Sigrid Pohl Perry: How to decipher Cyrillic lettering -- Download the presentation

9:45 a.m.
Irmgard Hein Ellingson: Researching the Habsburg empire part 1 -- Download the presentation
Gary Warner: A quick guide to using SGGEE's resources -- Download the presentation

11:00 a.m.
Irmgard Hein Ellingson: Researching the Habsburg empire part 2 -- Download the presentation
Ceil Wendt Jensen: Strategies for locating ancestral villages

Lunch break -- on your own

1:30 p.m.
Jerry Frank: The road to Mokro Niemieckie (Using maps for genealogy)
Ceil Wendt Jensen: Immigration agents at work

2:45 p.m.
Larry Jensen: Identifying and using records in addition to parish and vital records
Thomas Krahn: Genealogical Use of DNA -- Download the presentation

4:00 p.m.
Larry Jensen: Searching compiled genealogies to prevent duplication of research
Joe Everett: Resources for Tracing Your Germanic Heritage on Ancestry.com -- Download the presentation

Evening banquet:
Speaker: Thom Edlund: FamilySearch filming in Eastern Europe


Saturday, July 25

8:30 a.m.
Irmgard Hein Ellingson: Pommern Immigration to Wisconsin and Iowa -- Download the presentation
Thomas Krahn: Using DNA as an anthropological tool -- Download the presentation

9:45 a.m.
Larry Jensen: Understanding the historical and cultural background of the area of research
Cindy Jacobson: Writing about family history -- Download the presentation

11:00 a.m.
Joe Everett: Resources for Tracing Your Eastern European Heritage on Ancestry.com -- Download the presentation
Jerry Frank: Bug Hollender in Siberia

Lunch -- included in registration

1:30 p.m.
Bill Remus: Migration of Germans into Poland and Volhynia -- Download the presentation
Ceil Wendt Jensen: Seeking Wilhelm Boeing

2:45 p.m.
Bill Remus: Using DNA in your research -- Download the presentation
Karla Walters: Volhynian migration into Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest

4:00 p.m.
SGGEE annual general meeting
Thom Edlund: Jewish research -- Download the presentation

Our venue:

Radisson Milwaukee North Shore

7065 N. Port Washington Road, Glendale, WI 53217
Reservations: (888) 201-1718 Telephone: (414) 351-6960 Fax: (414) 351-5194



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