Super Conference 2009 – A Journey of Discovery

Friday, July 24, sessions

8:30 a.m.
Dave Obee: Genealogy 101
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Sigrid Pohl Perry: How to decipher Cyrillic lettering

9:45 a.m.
Irmgard Hein Ellingson: Researching the Habsburg empire part 1
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Gary Warner: A quick guide to using SGGEE’s resources

11:00 a.m.
Irmgard Hein Ellingson: Researching the Habsburg empire part 2
or
Ceil Wendt Jensen: Strategies for locating ancestral villages

Lunch break — on your own

1:30 p.m.
Jerry Frank: The road to Mokro Niemieckie (Using maps for genealogy)
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Ceil Wendt Jensen: Immigration agents at work

2:45 p.m.
Larry Jensen: Identifying and using records in addition to parish and vital records
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Thomas Krahn: Genealogical Use of DNA

4:00 p.m.
Larry Jensen: Searching compiled genealogies to prevent duplication of research
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Joe Everett: Resources for Tracing Your Germanic Heritage on Ancestry.com

Evening banquet:
Speaker: Thom Edlund: FamilySearch filming in Eastern Europe

Saturday, July 25, sessions

8:30 a.m.
Irmgard Hein Ellingson: Pommern Immigration to Wisconsin and Iowa
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Thomas Krahn: Using DNA as an anthropological tool

9:45 a.m.
Larry Jensen: Understanding the historical and cultural background of the area of research
or
Cindy Jacobson: Writing about family history

11:00 a.m.
Joe Everett: Resources for Tracing Your Eastern European Heritage on Ancestry.com
or
Jerry Frank: Bug Hollender in Siberia

Lunch — included in registration

1:30 p.m.
Bill Remus: Migration of Germans into Poland and Volhynia
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Ceil Wendt Jensen: Seeking Wilhelm Boeing

2:45 p.m.
Bill Remus: Using DNA in your research
or
Karla Walters: Volhynian migration into Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest

4:00 p.m.
SGGEE annual general meeting
or
Thom Edlund: Jewish research