Dear Genealogy Bloggers,
Between April 3rd and 6th
genealogists, teachers and librarians will be gathering in Manchester, New
Hampshire for the 15th biennial NERGC (New England Regional
Genealogy Consortium) Conference. It is
a great chance to learn something new, sharpen old skills, meet up with other
genealogists and to make new friends.
Every two years the NERGC conference is held in a different
New England state. The first NERGC
conference I ever attended was in 2009 in Manchester, New Hampshire when I
volunteered through the New Hampshire Mayflower Society to man a table at the “Society
Fair”. I was only there a few hours, but
I met lots of genealogists I knew, and many others who were “new to me”. Everyone was having a wonderful time, and so
I vowed I would attend the next NERGC event in 2011.
The 2011 NERGC conference was held in Springfield,
Massachusetts. Vincent and I attended for three nights, and we enjoyed many
lectures, workshops and events. I organized
a mini family reunion for folks who were descended from Deacon Samuel Chapin at
his statue (commonly known as “The Puritan”) which was just a few blocks from
the conference hall. The best part of
that short event was that I made friends with people I am still meeting up with
at genealogy events in New England. A
repeat of this mini Chapin reunion was held during the 2017 NERGC conference in
Springfield.
The 2013 NERGC conference was held in Manchester, New Hampshire
again. Since I lived so close
(Londonderry) I became more involved and organized a blogger table and a
blogger SIG (Special Interest Group) that was extremely well attended. The blogger table and SIG was expanded in
2015 at the Providence, Rhode Island NERGC conference, and again at the 2017
Springfield, Massachusetts NERGC conference where we held the first “official
blogger” campaign.
If you would like to be an official blogger for the 2019
NERGC conference in Manchester, please send an email to info@NERGC.org with your name, blog address
and a brief biography. All official
bloggers will be required to interview a conference speaker, publish a blog
post with that interview, and blog informally about the conference. Your
blog posts will be promoted via the eZine, the NERGC blog, and social
media.
The NERGC 2019 conference theme is “Family – A Link to the
Past & A Bridge to the Future”.
There will be a society fair, an Ancestors Roadshow, exhibit hall, a conference
blog, a Facebook group, a conference eZine, and a Manchester genealogical
research bus tour. Wednesday April 3rd
is set aside in six interest tracks: Military Day, Beginner DNA Day, Professional
Genealogists Day, Librarians and Local Historians Day, Technology Day, and Society
Management Day. There are also five
Wednesday workshops. The regular
conference sessions start on Thursday morning and run until Saturday
afternoon. For details, see the
conference brochure at http://www.nergc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/NERGC-2019.pdf
Volunteers are essential to NERGC, and you don’t need any
experience! I you, a spouse, or a friend could give one or more hours to
volunteer during the conference please email Susan Steel and Virginia Wright at
susansteele@verizon.net
The NERGC 2019 Blog http://nergc.blogspot.com/
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Official Bloggers for the NERGC
Conference April 3 – 6, 2019 in Manchester, New Hampshire”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 3,
2019, (
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