Hello again, friends. Our last meeting was mainly about our upcoming conference. We have a few more meetings already scheduled for the year, but we’ve decided that we’re going to add in several more to focus on the conference and how everyone can help.

So we’re meeting next Tuesday, April 29th, 7-9pm, in the main floor classroom at the Family History Library.

Feel free to bring your questions about the conference. We know many of you have never been before or haven’t been since the last one in SLC in 2007.

See you next week.

It’s time for another UJGS meeting, next Tuesday, April 8th, from 7-9pm in the main floor classroom at the Family History Library.

We don’t have a speaker planned, so we will be having discussions about and related to genealogy. The IAJGS conference is getting closer and it’s time for many of our local volunteers to start preparing. We will discuss different aspects of the conference to familiarize our members with how things work, and the specific functions they will need to provide.

If anyone has a brick wall problem and would like to bring that to the meeting for suggestions from other members, please let us know. We haven’t had one in a while, but the society is here to help.

We will not be broadcasting this meeting as a webinar; discussions do not translate well to that format. If any of our members, especially conference committee chairs, cannot be in attendance in person, please let us know so we can arrange for you to be there online.

See you at the meeting!

It’s time for our first meeting of 2014. On February 11th, come to the Family History Library, main floor classroom, from 7-9pm for a special presentation.

Daniel Horowitz and Banai Lynn Feldstein will be presenting Plan Your Roots Trip to Eastern Europe Effectively.

Learn the tips and tricks on how to plan a heritage trip to Eastern Europe. From the smallest details about hotels, transportation, archives, and cemeteries, Daniel and Banai will share the knowledge gained on their own visits to their ancestral homes.

Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting. It will be broadcast as a webinar and you can register online.

UJGS members, and future members, don’t forget to bring your dues for 2014.

See you there!

It’s time for our last general meeting of 2013. On Tuesday, October 22nd, from 7-9pm, we will meet in the main floor classroom of the Family History Library. Remember that parking behind the Church Museum is free.

Plans for the 2014 IAJGS conference are moving forward, and there is more to discuss, so that will be a focus of our business meeting.

This is also an election meeting. If any members would like to step up into leadership positions, we have plenty available and would welcome your help with the future of UJGS.

And finally, we will finish up with an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? We’ll have a few episodes that our membership can choose from.

See you there!

Just a reminder that tomorrow, Thursday September 12th, is our meeting about the 2014 IAJGS conference. We will convene at 5pm in the main floor classroom at the Family History Library. We will go into as many details as we can to prepare everyone for what their roles will be in the coming year to prepare for the conference.

Anyone who has not already volunteered for a committee roll is also welcome to attend. There are plenty of ways that you can help out to make everyone’s jobs a little easier.

And we’ll follow that with our annual board meeting. Again, anyone interested in taking on more of a leadership position in our society is welcome to join the board.

See you tomorrow.

Hello UJGS members. Next week, we are going to have a more unusual meeting. This one is unscheduled, but it has a very important purpose.

Now that the Boston IAJGS conference is over, SLC is up next. It’s time for us to start planning to make our conference the success that we want it to be.

We will meet at the Family History Library on Thursday, September 12, beginning at 5pm.

I know many of you have been asking for more details about what you will need to do in the coming year, so we want to tell you as much as we can.

If you are already volunteered for the conference committee, we hope you can make it to this meeting. If you can’t be there, but you have the time, I’m sure we can bring you in via the Internet.

If you are not on the committee already, we still want you to join us next week. There is enough to be done in advance of the conference that everyone can find a bit to do to make it easier on those of us with the bigger responsibilities.

We will follow the conference session with a board meeting, so I hope the board members will all be in attendance as well. And if anyone is interested in joining our board and helping to lead our society, you are welcome to join us for that meeting too.

Please RSVP, especially if you are a committee chair or a board member, so we will know who is coming.

It’s time for another UJGS meeting. We will be in the main floor classroom of the Family History Library from 7-9pm on July 23rd, next Tuesday.

We are only a few weeks away from the IAJGS conference in Boston, so this month’s meeting will be a very small preview of the conference.

Our speaker will be our own Banai Lynn Feldstein. She will be presenting Secrets of Jewish Genealogy Research at the Family History Library. This presentation provides some of the basics and some of the insider secrets about research at the Library.

This will be Banai’s practice run before the conference. Be ready to evaluate the presentation and offer your own advice about what she should teach (and what can be cut to make it under an hour).

As always, this will be presented as a webinar, which requires registration, for those who can’t be there in person.

See you next week!

Don’t forget it’s Library Research Night tomorrow night, from 5-9pm, at the Family History Library.

Come do some research, ask for some help with your brick walls, or just talk about genealogy.

We’ll be in the main floor classroom. See you tomorrow!

It’s time for another UJGS meeting, and this one is Library Research Night. Come to the Family History Library on Tuesday, June 18th, from 5-9pm, and research with your fellow society members.

All levels of researchers are welcome, from beginners to experts. Ask for advice on your genealogy research or give some to others. Share your finds with society members and discuss where to take your research next.

Free parking is available behind the museum. Check our meetings page for details.

We’d love to know if you’re planning to come and if you have a specific area of research you’re seeking help with. We’ll try to match you up with a member who can help.

We have reserved the main floor classroom, so come and meet us there.

See you next week!

It’s time for another UJGS meeting. We are meeting at the Family History Library, Tuesday, May 21st, from 7-9pm. This month’s topic: Genealogy in the Round.

What’s Genealogy in the Round? It’s a bring-your-own topic. Everyone is encouraged to participate in some way. Bring a family heirloom, tell a story about an ancestor, share a genealogical find, tell something interesting you’ve learned while researching history, or bring a brick wall problem and we’ll try to help you chip away at it.

We’ll also have some discussion about the 2014 IAJGS conference we’ll be co-hosting next summer.

We will be broadcasting this meeting as a webinar for anyone who want to join us remotely. You can register at this link. If you want to share something from home, please be ready with a microphone and headset and we will try to have the system set up so that we can broadcast you to the room.

We’d be happy to have our members send us pictures or scans of what they’re planning to share so we can show them during the broadcast. Or feel free to bring your files on a flash drive and take over at the podium for a few minutes. (Please, no presentations longer than ten minutes. We want to give everyone a turn.)

If you want help with a brick wall, you may send that information in advance too. Since we’ll be at the Library, we might even be able to find some information you need before you go home.

Shavuot begins this Tuesday evening, so have a happy holiday. (Read more about the holiday from our previous blog post.)

And we’ll see you on the 21st. Who’s going to be there?