Well I have nothing to complain about when it comes to the
start of this conference. As I’ve said before this is my first National
Genealogical Society (NGS) conference and it appears to be a very well attended
conference, I hear the numbers of attendees is in the thousands. I’ve attended
a few lectures and thought they were very well presented and I always think of
it successful when I walk out with new pieces of information.
One of the presentations I attended this morning was “Tracking Pennsylvania Ancestors Keys to
Research” the presenter was Kay Haviland Freilich CG, CGL, FNGS. This was
the first time I have seen her present and I can say if you had a question, any
question about locating records while doing research in Pennsylvania she would
be the person to ask. Some interesting points that she shared and I thought I
would share with all of you. While searching Philadelphia you need to look at
both county and city records as for the rest of the state records stay in the
county they were created in. If you are taking advantage of searching the
septennial census records you might be surprised to find they hold information
about African Americans.
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