A Conference to Remember

Posted by conference on May 23, 2010 under Blog: New Postings, Registration Updates, The Making of Conference 2010 | Comments are off for this article

The Ontario Genealogical Society’s Conference 2010 will be a hard one to forget.

Nearly 800 guests attended a record number of sessions, starting with Friday’s awe-inspiring trilogy of advanced lectures by Thomas W. Jones; ending with John Philip Colletta’s hilarious closing address; and peaking in the middle with a standing ovation for banquet speaker, Karolyn Smardz Frost.

In between, we enjoyed scores of fine sessions with speakers from Atlantic to Pacific—and even the other side of the Atlantic—as well as a sold-out Marketplace, an active Research Centre with free databases, expert consultations, special presentations, interesting tours and innovative specialist programs.

We were thrilled to welcome researchers with Dutch, Italian, and Eastern European roots who might not otherwise have discovered OGS. We hope they’ve seen the benefits of being part of a large active genealogical community.

Conference 2010 registrants still have one more week to access the online Syllabus—you’ll need the password that was sent to you by e-mail on Saturday, May 1 (or later if you registered after that.) You’ll even find some additional material from speakers Rick Crume and Alison Hare.

But once the Syllabus comes down on May 31, that will be it, as our rights to display the content expire on that date.

And don’t forget to fill in the online evaluation. If you were a registered attendee or a speaker, you should by now have received e-mail instructions as to how to access the site securely. (The e-mail’s subject line was: “OGS Conference 2010 Evaluation Invitation”.) It will only take a few minutes, and your participation will help next year’s conference organizers.

Thank you to all those who made Conference 2010 such an invigorating experience:

  • the speakers who shared their knowledge and insights with such gusto
  • the exhibitors who gave us access to more resources
  • the sponsors and strategic partners who made the program possible
  • the hotel and other suppliers for a seamless event
  • the staff at our provincial office who handled registration
  • the libraries, archives, and historic sites that hosted tour and research excursion visitors
  • our many volunteers for their creativity, enthusiasm, smiles—and hours of work both before and during Conference 2010

And most of all, thank you to all the attendees—old friends and new—who helped spread the word, created the wonderful buzz at Conference 2010, and motivated everyone else.

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