2005 FGS/UGS Conference
I was out of the country on business for a couple weeks and found Internet access to be problematic so the frequency of my blogging has suffered considerably. My burning desire to keep up on baseball has suffered as well. Being forced to watch soccer games (sorry, "football") surrounded by hordes of alcohol-fueled fans just didn't cut it.
Praise soccer all you want to, it's still nothing more than kick-the-ball-and-run repeated ad nauseum. This synapse-destroying activity is interrupted only by an occasional score accompanied by some announcer shouting out a lengthened "Gooooooaaaaaallllllll!" until he passes out from oxygen starvation. I guess baseball is just too cerebral for most people.
Back to the lack of Internet access. I would think that when you consider that I was in two of the wealthiest countries in Europe, that wireless access would have been easy. Wrong. It was expensive and frequently very, very slow, on the order of 14.4 dialup slow. In reference to the trip itself, I'll state that thanks to a combination of factors, geting there was not half the fun.
Today is the opening of the Federation of Genealogical Societies conference in Salt Lake. David Rencher, Director of Records and Information for the Family and Church History Department talked about moving societies into a virtual environment to help drive costs down and improve the benefits offered to members. His presentation can be found at FamilySearch.org. Click on News and Events, then FGS Conference Highlights. He also made a brief demo of a new indexing tool the LDS Church is rolling out to a small select audience. This new tool, called "FamilySearch Indexing" should help speed up deliver of indexed material to the FamilySearch website.
In 2004 the US Surgeon General announced National Family History Day to be held on Thanksgiving Day. This was to provide families an opportunity to discuss their family health history. This announcement slipped by me completely. The state of Utah has jumped on the bandwagon here and set up the "Make Family Health History a Tradition" in November 2005. More information can be found at the State of Utah website Family Health History.
Praise soccer all you want to, it's still nothing more than kick-the-ball-and-run repeated ad nauseum. This synapse-destroying activity is interrupted only by an occasional score accompanied by some announcer shouting out a lengthened "Gooooooaaaaaallllllll!" until he passes out from oxygen starvation. I guess baseball is just too cerebral for most people.
Back to the lack of Internet access. I would think that when you consider that I was in two of the wealthiest countries in Europe, that wireless access would have been easy. Wrong. It was expensive and frequently very, very slow, on the order of 14.4 dialup slow. In reference to the trip itself, I'll state that thanks to a combination of factors, geting there was not half the fun.
Today is the opening of the Federation of Genealogical Societies conference in Salt Lake. David Rencher, Director of Records and Information for the Family and Church History Department talked about moving societies into a virtual environment to help drive costs down and improve the benefits offered to members. His presentation can be found at FamilySearch.org. Click on News and Events, then FGS Conference Highlights. He also made a brief demo of a new indexing tool the LDS Church is rolling out to a small select audience. This new tool, called "FamilySearch Indexing" should help speed up deliver of indexed material to the FamilySearch website.
In 2004 the US Surgeon General announced National Family History Day to be held on Thanksgiving Day. This was to provide families an opportunity to discuss their family health history. This announcement slipped by me completely. The state of Utah has jumped on the bandwagon here and set up the "Make Family Health History a Tradition" in November 2005. More information can be found at the State of Utah website Family Health History.
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