Stephen J. Danko, PhD
Genealogy Blogs: New Ways to Disseminate Genealogy Information on the Internet
One of the newest ways to publish genealogical information on the Internet is by the use of weblogs, commonly called blogs. Genealogy blogs include a wide range of subjects, including genealogy news, methodology, family history, and research diaries. Setting up and maintaining [...]
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Abstracts of Presentations
Posted in UPGS 2008 Conference, UPGS 2008 Speakers on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baerbel K. Johnson, AG®
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on January 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Baerbel K. Johnson, AG is a professional genealogist and works at the Family History Library as International Reference Consultant.
Orvill S. Paller
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on December 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Orvill S. Paller was born and raised in Salt Lake City , Utah.
Stephen J. Danko, PhD
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on December 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Conference Speaker: Stephen J. Danko, PhD
Steve Danko was born in Albany, New York, has lived in Vermont, Nebraska, and Oregon, and now resides in San Francisco, California. He earned a Ph.D. in Botany and Plant Pathology from Oregon State University.
All of Steve’s grandparents were Polish immigrants, which has led Steve to concentrate on 20th Century [...]
Stephen P. Morse, PhD
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on November 2, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Steve Morse is an amateur genealogist who has been researching his Russian-Jewish origins. Several years ago he developed some web-based searching aids which, much to his surprise, have attracted attention worldwide.
Tomasz Nitsch
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on September 11, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Conference Speaker: Tomasz Nitsch
Tomasz Nitsch attended Akademia Ekonomiczna w Krakowie from 1989-1996 with a major in Information Technology and Econometrics, 1989 – 1996.
He is the Information Technology Director in the broadcast media industry at at TVN S.A. Since its commercial launch in 1997, TVN has emerged as one of the most successful television stations in Poland, with a strong [...]
Daniel Schlyter, AG
Posted in UPGS 2008 Speakers on August 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
