The week has really gone fast and it has been so valuable to hear such quality speakers and meet new genealogists. Today's first session was one that was presented by Donna Moughty on Using Griffith's Valuation to Identify Your Ancestors' Origins. I have used this website, with limited results. I will need to go back and use some of the pointers in this presentation. Moughty also guides tours to Ireland that might be a good trip to keep in mind.
Paul Milner's lecture on What's in the English Parish Chest was one of the best of the conference. For anyone doing English research, this was a veritable fount of information. It was based on his book, which unfortunately was not available in the vendor area. Will have to procure it when I get home.
Keeping with the "across the pond" theme, the 11:00 presentation was by David Rencher on Irish Church Records. Rencher covered each religion and itemized what one could expect to find in each's church records. Great presentation and good information.
Lunch was a quick hot dog in the vendor area and then one more time around the exhibits. I listened for a while to Beidler's mini talk on German naming conventions, but I knew most of it so wandered on, bought a few books and resisted temptation of others.
The last session for me was Amy Larner Giroux's Does the Data Fit: Using Evidence Summaries to Assist your Analysis. This was a good case study supported by a number of different ways to summarize your evidence. I wish that she would have had some templates or had screen shots that were large enough to see how she had done her summaries. It was a good talk, but could have had a bit more meat to it.
We needed to be ready for our SuperShuttle pickup at 4:35 so I hastened back to the hotel, met Earle and got our bags out of storage. The shuttle was a bit delayed, but we had allowed plenty of time for our 7:00 flight. Got to the airport and through security, complete with a pat down since my FitBit set off the alarm, and had time for a bite to eat. The food options in the Ft. Lauderdale airport were limited at best. Had a horrible hamburger for which I waited 20 minutes because the fast food people were so incompetent. Wandered down to a bar and watched the Kentucky Derby before settling in at the gate. Flight was on time and boarding went quickly.
The Pens were playing and it was so hysterical seeing so many people on the plane watching the game on iPads. The Pens lost forcing a 6th game. And the Bucs lost to the Cardinals 6-4.
Home, finally, around midnight and greeted by little Abby who will be staying with us for a week while her human takes a well earned vacation.
Need to find another blogging program since this one refuses to upload pictures from the iPad in a dependable manner.
Next trip - the first part of June!
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