PMC conference; Day 1

(I cannot guarantee I will blog everyday….so there may not be a “Day 2”)

Had a great day today at the Professional Management Conference sponsored by the Association of Professional Genealogists. Here is what happened:

I volunteered to help with the reception desk in the morning. I like doing this because you meet everyone.
Attended the morning keynote speech on “When you need to hire professional help.” the speaker was from Ancestry.com and I had to give him credit–he filled in for the other speaker who couldn’t attend (at the last moment?). The audience asked some very pointed questions.
Attended Part 1 of Tom Jone’s presentation on citations. It was excellent. He explored context in depth. (I did not attend Part 2 but plan on attending Part 3 tomorrow am.
Attended Judy Russell’s class on “Finding the Law.” I feel much more grounded. Thanks, Judy! But I do wish I had as clear a niche as she does.
Heard an excellent lunch keynote speech by David Rencher of FamilySearch. Did you know that ~87% of attendees to the 2014 Roottech conference have looked at FamilySearch online trees but only ~70% of NGS conference attendees have looked at a FS online tree (small sample of attendees–not all were polled.)
Studied the four posters which were presented today. It was the first poster session the APG had ever sponsored, (I present tomorrow.) The posters were on Japanese research, developing a social media outcome for a Polish community, and a categorization of indirect evidence that I thought clustered the issues appropriately.
Went to the FHL and worked on data collection for my Case Study. Got some great information! See photo above.¹
Had dinner with my friend Karen.

Tomorrow, I will sit in on the third part of Tom’s session. Stay tuned for a blog on this topic.(Wedgewood, feel free to hit the delete key!) And I want to hear Billie Fogarty talk abut lecturing and teaching.

Happy Hunting!

Jill

What I have done since the last post: Well, I had to iron my poster flat (first ironing I have done in a while!), searched 18th c. tax records in Sweden and met a lot of new friends and and enjoyed catching up with the ones I met before.

¹Sweden, Halland County, Hishult parish, Mantalslangd (Tax List),1794.