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Pinellas Genealogy
Society |
| Featured Speakers: |
Sharon Tate Moody |
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Saturday, January 28, 2006 8:15-3:30 Largo
Public Library | |
| Contact information: | PGS email pgsfla@yahoo.com or Mercedes Bleattler at 727-587-6748. |
| Printable online registration form available at www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~flpgs. |
Speaker Bios |
Drew Smith |
| President of
the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE),
Director of the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG), Director of the Florida
Genealogical Society, Tampa, FL, Member of the Association of Professional
Genealogists (APG), National Genealogical Society (NGS), the Society of Genealogists, and more than 20 other genealogical and historical (U.K.), and more societies worldwide. Drew Smith has lived in Tampa since 1990 and has been an instructor with the USF School of Library and Information Science since 1994. He teaches a graduate course in genealogical librarianship, and undergraduate courses in web page design and library/Internet research. He is a board member both for the national Federation of Genealogical Societies and for the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. He is a regular columnist for the quarterly magazine, Genealogical Computing. He was the technical editor for George G. Morgan's book, How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy, published in 2004 by McGraw-Hill. He is a member of the National Genealogical Society, The Genealogical Speakers Guild, the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors, and the Association of Professional Genealogists." He and George Morgan currently discuss genealogy online at “The Genealogy Guys Podcast”, available at www.genealogyguys.com. |
Sharon Tate Moody |
| What do you get when you combine a deep appreciation for history and genealogy, twenty-eight years of law enforcement investigative experience, a sense of humor, and a love for genealogy? You get Sharon Tate Moody's dynamic and humorous approach to hunting ancestors who don't want to be found. She is an associate of the Board for Certification of Genealogists and vice president of the Association of Professional Genealogists. Her column, Heritage Hunting, appears weekly in the Tampa Tribune. She is the immediate past president of the Georgia Genealogical Society, former editor of the society's newsletter, and a founding trustee of the Friends of the Georgia Archives. |
Donna Moughty |
| A former Regional Education Sales Manager for a national technology company, and now a Professional Genealogist, Donna has been conducting family research for over 15 years. She teaches classes for beginners and lectures on a variety of subjects including Internet and Irish research as well as computer topics. Donna has attended multiple NGS, FGS Conferences and participated in the Irish Genealogical Congress in 1997 and 2001. She received a Certificate from the National Institute on Genealogical Research in 1999 and the Salt Lake Institute (Irish) in 2004. Donna is Treasurer of the Genealogical Speakers Guild and a member of NGS, APG, and other local and international genealogical societies. In addition, she serves as President of the Middlesex Genealogical Society and an FGS Delegate. |
George G. Morgan |
| George Morgan is president of Aha! Seminars, Inc. a Florida-based company that teaches workshops for library cooperatives and consortia. He has developed distance education materials for the Internet and teaches three online workshops for MyFamily.com. His extremely popular weekly genealogy column, "Along Those Lines…” appears each Friday at www.ancestry.com/library/view/columns/george/george.asp as well as in the Ancestry Daily News. The column received Genealogy Today's "Best of the Web 2001" award. He has published numerous books; "The Genealogy Forum on America Online: The Official User's Guide", "Your Family Reunion: How to Plan It, Organize It, and Enjoy It", and "How to Do Everything with Your Genealogy". He is currently the president of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors, a director of the Genealogical Speakers Guild, a director of the Florida Genealogical Society (Tampa), and belongs to numerous genealogy societies. He is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG) and the Society of Genealogists (SoG) in the U.K. Along with Drew Smith he discusses genealogy online at www.genealogyguys.com. |
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Registration Fees- $30 per person- Please make check payable to: Pinellas Genealogy Society and mail to- PGS-Seminar |
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Annual Society Memberships are: $17 per member or $25 for two people at same address. You may include your annual membership dues in your seminar registration. Please enclose a SASE for confirmation of your payment and registration. |
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