The photo shows what I managed to fit into my swag bag from the conference floor yesterday. I mentioned that there was a feeding frenzy at a couple of booths, and the bottom-most two items in this picture are my catches from them. The T-shirt is a promotion from FamilySearch to further advertise the Civil War collections there. With all the times that I saw the announcement slide in sessions yesterday, I get the feeling that I’ll be seeing it again today. The second early morning freebie was the book At Home With Illinois Governors shown here. Looking around the interwebs, I see used copies available for under $10, so it shouldn’t be too hard to pick it up if you didn’t attend FGS.
The next item on the stack here is a back issue of the Indiana Historical Society’s publication, Connections. I grabbed the Fall/Winter 2009 issue specifically because there is a family story about one of my great uncles getting committed to a mental hospital in Indianapolis in the 1920s. This issue gave me a little more background on where he may have been and how to get more information. Working up the pile from there is a book that also covers information from the same family branch. The Beach, Meharry and Rice families that I’ve mentioned several times before spent a few generations in Montgomery County, Indiana, and the book that I got yesterday lists a few of the names that I recognize and shows where the land they owned was located. Once I work through this information more, I’ll put another post up about it.
Family Tree Magazine was giving away free copies of a couple recent issues as well. I had wanted to get a sample copy to review for some time. Now it’s on my review stack.
The last item here is the magazine of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Since I live in Madison and have found valuable references that relate to my research at the society’s library, signing up for a family membership was a fairly easy sell for me. I haven’t gotten that far on the Surname Saturday posts yet, but one of my wife’s lines, the Dunn family line, lived in Mineral Point for a while. I’ll have more details on the line once I can get back into the weekly posts.
Okay, one final item before I head out for breakfast and off to the conference… I was finally able to connect with the FamilySearch reps to find out what I missed from Tuesday’s blogger reception. There was a lot of information presented then; I’ll be going through the documentation later and posting some tidbits when I can. The important time-sensitive item here, though, is a promotional code that is available to everyone right now.
If you register for RootsTech before 11:59pm on Saturday, September 10, use the promo code FGS99 and you’ll be able to register at the FGS show special price of $99, which itself is $30 off the early bird registration that’s available through November. The flyer that I was given yesterday notes that regular registration fee is $189, which makes this just over half off. So, assuming that you’re reading this on September 9 (today) or 10 (tomorrow), go register now with the promo code and you’ll get the lower rate.
Okay, time for breakfast and to head off to the conference for today. More later!
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