[Genealib] ALA Conference and the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree

[Paula Hinkel]

The Southern California Genealogical Society's 39th Annual Genealogy
Jamboree will be held Friday through Sunday, June 27 through 29, at the
Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center.  This year's Jamboree
includes over 81 lecture presentations, over 3 dozen speakers, several
opportunities for networking and exchanging ideas, and more than 50
commercial vendors, genealogical and heritage societies, and other
organizations in our exhibit hall.  

This year's Jamboree is being sponsored by Ancestry.com; World Vital
Records, a service of FamilyLink.com, Inc.; the California State
Genealogical Alliance; Legacy Family Tree; the New England Historic
Genealogical Society; and Footnote.com.

The ethnic focus for this year's Jamboree is German, Eastern European and
Jewish ancestry, with presentations by John T. Humphrey, Stephen P. Morse,
Megan Smolenyak Smokenyak, Schelly Talalay Dardashti, and Peter Lande, who
will be speaking about the records available from the newly released WWII
German archive at Bad Arolsen.  We have a very strong DNA track with
presentations by Bennett Greenspan of Family Tree DNA, Colleen Fitzpatrick,
Ph.D., Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak, Steve Morse, and others.  Our "basics"
sessions will be led by Arlene Eakle, Ph.D., FUGA: Wendy Bebout Elliot,
Ph.D., FUGA: Bill Dollarhide; Jana Broglin, CG; D. Brenton Simons and many,
many others.

One of the highlights of Jamboree will be a panel discussion involving many
of the leading genealogy bloggers -- Dick Eastman, Leland Meitzler, Megan
Smolenyak Smolenyak, George G. Morgan, Schelly Talalay Dardashti, Stephen
Danko and Randy Seaver.  Included on the stellar list of speakers for this
year's Jamboree is our own moderator, Drew Smith.  

If you've already checked your schedule and notice a conflict with the
American Library Association's annual conference Anaheim, California, from
June 26 through July 2, don't despair.  With some creative planning, you may
be able to attend portions of both.  Why not take a side trip and come to
the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree too?  

Jamboree runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday, June 27-29th. 

According to the ALA website:
The 2008 Annual Conference will be held June 26-July 2
Committee and business meetings take place June 28-July 1
Council Meetings run to July 2
Education programs take place primarily June 28-30
The exhibits will be held June 28-July 1

If you're renting a car, the drive from Anaheim to Burbank up Interstate 5
will take you 45 minutes or so, depending on traffic.  If you would rather
not attempt to tackle Southern California's legendary freeway traffic, you
have a couple of options.

First, you could take the train. The Burbank Airport station is a 90-minute,
$32 round trip train ride on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner. The train stops
across the street from the Marriott. The hotel shuttle will pick you up and
bring you to the hotel and take you back to the station at the end of the
day. The train schedules for Friday, Saturday and Sunday can be viewed at
http://tinyurl.com/yq8bna.

The SuperShuttle provides another alternative. Service from the Anaheim
Convention Center to the Burbank Marriott Hotel looks to be about $15 per
person for a party of seven (about $30 round trip). If you would be
interested in investigating a SuperShuttle trip, please let us know. We will
help you connect with others wishing to share a van.

If we have enough interest, we would investigate prices for a private limo.

Here http://tinyurl.com/394u6p is the website for the ALA Conference in
Anaheim. The full Jamboree program is online http://tinyurl.com/23a8f9. Take
a look at the two schedules and see if it might be possible for you to
attend both. Single-day advance registrations are available for Jamboree,
and walk-ins are welcome.  Early-bird discounts are available for early
registrants (before May 1) and for SCGS members.

It's not very often that an opportunity like this presents itself. Take
advantage of it!  

We look forward to welcoming you to Jamboree.

Cordially,

Paula Hinkel and Leo Myers
Co-Chairmen, Genealogy Jamboree
Southern California Genealogical Society
417 Irving Drive
Burbank, CA  91504
www.scgsgenealogy.com
www.genealogyjamboree.blogspot.com