CSAGSI Conference '97 Page

Please plan to join us on April 5th, 1997 for our first conference, "A Quest for Ancestors."

This CSAGSI conference will be an all-day event held at the William Tell Inn in Countryside, Illinois on Saturday, April 5th, 1997 from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m.

Conference Schedule

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: Check in; coffee and rolls
8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.: Announcements
9:15 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.: 1a. Duncan Gardiner: Czech and Slovak Genealogy: The First Steps
1b. Chris Miksanek: Introduction to Computer Genealogy
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.: Keynote speaker and entertainment by the Bohemian Concertina Band
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.: Lunch
1:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.: 2a. Duncan Gardiner: Genealogy Sources in the Czech and Slovak Archives; 2b. Robert Baumruk: Interpreting What You Might Get From the Archives
3:15 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.: Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.: Panel Question and Answer, open for research questions and comments from conference attendees

Conference registration includes:

Your choice of morning and afternoon sessions
Morning coffee and rolls
A delicious "old style" lunch
Entertainment by the Bohemian Concertina Band
A conference syllabus

Hotel Information:
Hotel rooms are available at the William Tell In for a special conference rate. To make hotel reservations, contact the William Tell Inn at (708) 354-4200 and mention the CSAGSI Conference to get the special rate.

Contact Joe Hartzel for any questions.

About the Speakers

Duncan Gardiner, Ph.D., C.G.

Duncan Gardinar is author of "German Towns in Slovakia and Upper Hungary: A Genealogical Gazateer," and a number of family histories. He edits "Rocenka," the yearbook of the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International. He has been a certified genealogist (C.G.) since 1991 and has made ten trips to the archives in the Czech and Slovak Republics researching several hundred ancestral lines of Czechs, Slovaks, Rusyns, Germans, and Hungarians. With a doctorate in Slavic Linguistics, he has taught college Russian and Czech and is proficient in Slovak, German, and French; and reads Polish, Latin, Serbo-Croation, and Hungarian.

Chris Miksanek

Chris Miksanek is the computer consultant for both the Czech and Slovak American Genealogy Society of Illinois and the Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International. He has presented Czech and Slovak computing topics at CGSI's last three annual conferences and in several other forums. He is also the author of several articles on Eastern European computer genealogy topics and has developed several computer programs for both Macintosh and IBM computer genealogists including CZECHitOut! a DOS Czech/English electronic dictionary.

Robert Baumruk

Robert Baumruk is teaching Czech language classes at Jan Neruda Czech School in Cicero, Illinois; Secretary of the Governing Board of T.G. Masaryk Czech School; Educational Director, Sokol Slavsky; Treasurer, Chicagoland Sokol Building Association; Vice President, Alliance of Czech Schools; Board Member and Education Chair of the Czech and Slovak American Genealogy Society of Illinois; Received an A.M. degree from the Graduate Library School, University of Chicago.

Conference Registration Form:

(One registration per form, please. Print multiple copies for additional registrants, as necessary.)

Fee:
(By March 15, 1997) $24 for members, $29 for non-members
(After March 16, 1997) $29 for members, $34 for non-members
(At the door**) $30 for members, $35 for non-members

** Note: if you register at the door, lunch is not included.

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Sugar Grove, IL 60554

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