Friday, September 2, 2011

1000Memories Breakfast Panel at FGS Conference on Thursday

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I was invited to attend a Breakfast Panel meeting, hosted by 1000Memories, at 7 a.m. on Thursday, 8 September at the Federation of Genealogy Societies conference.  Michael Katchen of 1000Memories sent me this information and asked me to write about it.  The 1000Memories blog post is Engaging your family in genealogy: A panel at FGS 2011:

The Panel is titled "Engaging your family in genealogy" and the panelists include two of the genealogy community’s top personalities, D. Joshua Taylor and Pat Richley (Dear Myrtle).

Joshua is Conference Chair for the 2011 FGS Conference and a nationally recognized genealogical speaker, author, and researcher. Myrt is a prolific genealogy blogger and author of DearMYRTLE's Genealogy Blog, currently rated among the top blogs in the industry.

This all-star team (which also includes Jonathan Good, co-founder of 1000memories), will tackle one one of the biggest issues confronting the genealogy community today: how to get the next generation excited about family history. All the hard work of assembling and documenting your family’s genealogy and history is something that should be shared with future generations so that they too can understand where they come from - the panelists will share strategies and tips to excite the next generation.

If you plan to be at the conference, we would love for you to join us for breakfast on Thursday morning. Space is limited so please email Michael to register.

1 comment:

Martin said...

"All the hard work of assembling and documenting your family’s genealogy and history is something that should be shared with future generations so that they too can understand where they come from"

I disagree with that statement. I think you should do genealogy because you want to. If you're doing it to pass it along to others, you will be disappointed in their reaction. I sometimes think people are better off not knowing where they come from--they can be their own creation. No baggage. I think we should all choose such things. If the next generation doesn't care for genealogy, so be it. It was big in the 1890s and again in the 1970s and now. Just my thoughts. Enough people get caught up in genealogy every generation to keep it going naturally.