Genealogy
Retreat 2009 - on the lake
Stonebrook Inn, Grove, Oklahoma
October 23-25, 2009
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• Nancy Calhoun

• Carrie Cook

• Fredrea Gregath Cook

• Mary E. Celeste, MLS

• Dr. Delores Meyer

• Jeanne Prince, MLIS, CA

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Genealogy instruction for this retreat includes session times of an hour (with question) to hour and a half for lectures. Timing for workshops, field trips and panels will be announced. We will have 17 different education sessions in 2009.

Photo from 2008 at Stonebrook.

Speakers Include
Subject to change.

Nancy Calhoun, Mary E. Celeste, MLS, Carrie Cook, Fredrea Gregath Cook, Dr. Delores Meyer, Jeanne Prince, MLIS/CA

Current Scheduled Retreat Topics Include

• PowerPoint: Take the Plunge - Carrie Cook/Mid-America Speakers Session - Originally presented at 2008 FGS

• Making Plans for a Successful Genealogy Research Trip - Mary Celeste, MLS

• Barnstorming with Brainstorming - Carrie Cook - Originally presented at 2007 FGS

• Hanging Out the Dirty Linens – Learning to Love Your Less-Than-Perfect Ancestor - Mary Celeste, MLS

• Time Lines - Nancy Calhoun

• Organized Blogs - Be a Standout! - Carrie Cook

• Hats Off to Our Ancestors!: A Light-Hearted Salute to Lineage Societies - Mary Celeste, MLS

• The Identification of Old Photographs - Jeanne Prince, MLIS/CA

• Preserving Photographs - Jeanne Prince, MLIS/CA

• Debunk These Myths of Parliamentary Procedures - Dr. Delores Meyer

• Stretching: Exercises for the Writer

• Copyrighrs v. Copy Wrongs - Fredrea Gregath Cook

• Writing: Organization and Goals - Carrie Cook

• What's in a Name? Self Publishing - Carrie Cook

• Book Marketing - Nuts & Bolts - Fredrea Gregath Cook

• Writer's Forum - Saturday Lunch/Moderated

• Friday Field Trip: Dowsing in cemetery - Presenter TBA

• Friday Field Trip: Stone rubbing in cemetery - Presenter TBA

Paid registrants will be signed up for a private E-Group for shared updates and ongoing networking that includes an informal writer's group atmosphere.