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Past Conference - 2006 Winnipeg

Victoria Inn Hotel and Convention Centre,
1808 Wellington Ave., Winnipeg, Manitoba
Co-sponsored by the East European Genealogical Society
August 4 to 6, 2006
Friday, August 4th Lunch and Dinner - on your own
6:00 - 7:00 PM Registration
Plenary Session  
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
 
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
 
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  
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