Today started with a keynote address by David Ferriero, Archivest of the United States. He told a wonderful story of how he found his own ancestors, which showed him the importance of genealogy. NARA uses a tremendous number of social media outlets, including Facebook, blogs and twitter. The plans are to make NARA a portal to digitalized records. He said an index to the long-awaited 1940 census will be available by April 2012. We can't wait!!
The rest of the day was packed with great speakers covering an incredible variety of topics. Debbie Mieszala of Lake County, IL had a very entertaining and information presentation on her Disappearing Dude. I found the Craig Scott presentation on Researching Your World War I Ancestor very informative. There are two more days of the conference yet to go - I hope we can hang in there!
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