Dale and I are at the ICAPGEN Conference (sponsored by The International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists) at the Radisson Hotel in Salt Lake City today – working the exhibit booth as usual. Dale, his wife Tara, and a friend, Melissa Metcalf, came in early on Friday and set up the exhibit. I’d had such a rough day on Thursday, dealing with a splitting headache during the FamilySearch Blogger’s Day event, that my son, Dale, gave me the day off on Friday. I stayed home and recuperated. I’m feeling great again. Speaking of FamilySearch, I’m working on my first (of many) blogs dealing with what’s going on there – both new and old…
Luana Darby just told me that they have a registration of 160 attendees here at the ICAPGEN Conference. It’s called “Becoming An Excellent Genealogist” this year. Most of the folks are local, but another 20 or so are from out-of-state. Looking at the class schedule, it’s evident that a wide variety of topics are covered. Classes in everything from New England Sources, to U.S. Migration Patterns, to Citing & Evaluating Online Sources, to Researching Your Civil War Ancestors are being taught. Six tracks are running simultaneously, with six class periods per day, making a total of 72 classes.
The exhibit hall is actually set up in the second floor lobby of the Radisson, so we’re never far from the food – laid out on tables just feet from the exhibit booths. The Family Roots Publishing booth runs down the South wall of the lobby for nearly 50 feet.
Other exhibitors here today are:
BYU Print & Mail (Carol Holland)
Generation Maps (Janet Hovarka)
Heritage Collector (Marlo & Leanna Schuldt
ICAPGEN (Joy & Merlin Price)
Legacy Family Tree (Ken McGinnis)
RootsMagic (Bruce Buzbee)
Utah Genealogical Association – UGA (Christy Fillerup)
