For some 30 years, Dick Eastman has been honing his vision of the future to improve our picture of the past. Along with this growing curiosity about his roots, an early interest in ham radio awakened his penchant for all things electronic, and by the early 1970’s, Dick was already using a mainframe computer to enter his family data on punch cards. It was only natural for him to play with PCs and Macintosh computers when the information age invaded households across the continent. He immediately saw new and better and faster ways of researching his family. The internet became his playground, where he would exhort others to bring their ancestors into this digitized world.

Dick actually went knocking on the door of a rising internet star called CompuServe to propose a genealogy forum where he built a community of family historians over the next 14 years. At the same time, he preached the benefits of technology to an even wider audience of genealogists, including national and international genealogical organizations, and of course, GENTECH, an organization that helped him to spread his message.

For the last 9-plus years, Dick has pursued his mission through an online periodical he writes every week, simply called "Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter." He loves to share technology "finds" that can help both new and seasoned genealogists, as well as dethroning the scams and shams that can lead the unwary astray.

The early registration fee (before Oct. 26th) will be $35.00 for members, $40.00 for non members. After Oct 26, add $5.00. Mail your reservation check to SAGHS Seminar, PO Box 790087, San Antonio, TX 78279-0087

For information & registration, call 210/342-5242, surf www.rootsweb.co/~txsaghs2 or visit our beautiful Library @ 911 Melissa Drive, in San Antonio.

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Omni Hotel San Antonio

November 6-7, 2009

Scheduled featured speaker: Military Records specialist

Well known speaker at many state, regional and national genealogical seminars, Mr. Scott is associated with Heritage Books in Westminster, MD

Research opportunities in San Antonio

San Antonio Genealogical & Historical Society Library (15 minutes from the Omni Hotel)
San Antonio Central Library (located in downtown San Antonio)
DRT library (located on the Alamo grounds)

Additional planned ethnic genealogy sessions: Hispanic, Polish, Czech, German, Scottish

Registration Information will be available closer to the time of this event.

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San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society

PO Box 790087 San Antonio TX 78279-0087

Telephone: 210-342-5242 Email: saghs@sbcglobal.net