Conference Speaker: Daniel M. Schlyter
Daniel M. Schlyter is a Reference Consultant in the US and Canada unit at the Family History Library. Until recently he was the Collection Management Specialist for the Family History Library responsible for Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. He served on the Polish Genealogical Society of America board from 1984 to 1999 [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Daniel Schlyter, AG
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on August 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Łukasz Bielecki, PhD
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on August 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Conference Speaker: Łukasz Bielecki, PhD
Łukasz Bielecki is a biochemist from Poznan, Poland, where he works in the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Łukasz is also a licensed tour guide in the Poznan region and is one of the founders of Discovering Roots, a company in Poland whose goal is to assist [...]
Katarzyna Grycza
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on August 10, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Conference Speaker: Katarzyna Grycza
Katarzyna (Kasia) Grycza is one of the founders of Discovering Roots, a company in Poland whose goal is to assist those researching their Polish ancestry.
Kasia was a student of tourism and an architecture hobbyist when, in November 1997, while taking a city tour guide course, she formed Discovering Roots with Magda Smolka, and Łukasz Bielecki.
Since [...]
Ceil Wendt Jensen, MA, CG
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on August 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Conference Speaker: Ceil Wendt Jensen, MA, CG
Ceil Wendt Jensen is a graduate of Michigan State University in East Lansing and spent thirty years in K-12 education where she pioneered multimedia technology integration in the classroom.
Ceil has 32 years of experience in genealogy. She has researched Polish, Irish, North American, and French Canadian families. In 1998, [...]
Kahlile B. Mehr, MA, MLS
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Conference Speaker: Kahlile B. Mehr, MA, MLS
Kahlile Mehr was born in Logan, Utah and grew up in Southern California.
He earned a B.A. in Russian, an M.L.S. in Library Science, and an M.A. in Family and Local History, all from Brigham Young University.
Kahlile began his employment with the Family History Library in 1980 as a Cataloger [...]
Sonja Hoeke-Nishimoto, AG
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on August 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Conference Speaker: Sonja Hoeke-Nishimoto, AG
Sonja Hoeke-Nishimoto was born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1957.
She majored in German at Brigham Young University and, since 1982, she has been a professional Germanic and Slavic researcher. Sonja has been employed at the Family History Library (FHL) at Salt Lake City since 1984. She [...]
History of the UPGS Conference
Posted in UPGS 2008 Conference on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The United Polish Genealogy Societies (UPGS) Conference was first held in 1988 in Salt Lake City.
The Conference has been held every two years since then, except for 2002 when the conference was cancelled.
UPGS 2008 will be the 10th conference in the series.
Through its 20 year history, the UPGS conference has been held in June, then [...]
