The William Tell/Holiday Inn is located one mile north of the Stevenson Expressway (I-55) on Joliet Road in Countryside.
Conference registration includes:
Karen Hobbs
Karen Hobbs is a researcher in Austrian Empire Military History documenting the life of an Austrian Empire soldier and the impact of military service and military action on peasant populations in the Czech lands. She also has done translation projects from German to English, including a history of place names in Mies (Stribro) county, Bohemia.
Daniel Schlyter
Daniel Schlyter is an accredited Genealogist (AG), in Czech, Slovak, and Polish research. He graduated in 1977 from Brigham Young University in International Relations. He has lectured many times at national conferences and has published several genealogical books and instructional aids. His most noted book is the Handbook of Czechoslovak Genealogical Research.
Joan Mohr
Joan Mohr is a doctoral Candidate in History at the University of Pittsburgh. Her specialty is U.S. Immigration History with an emphasis on Czechs and Slovaks. She is an author of the Odyssey of the Czecho-Slovak Legion in Siberia, 1917-20, and of the immigration patterns of the Plzen/Rokycany families who settled in Western Pennsylvania from 1870 to 1914.
Steve Potach
Steve Potach is an enthusiast of Czech/Slovak history and culture and has been researching his family history for nearly 25 years. He received a B.S. in History from the University of Minnesota and has been a speaker on historical topics at many workshops and conferences as well as the author of various historical articles. He was the 1976 winner of the Ida B. Davis Ethnic Heritage award.
Dominic Pacyga
Dominic Pacyga received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1981. He has co-authored two books concerning Chicago’s neighborhoods. He has lectured widely on topics ranging from urban development to immigration and on Pilsen Park - Chicago’s Czechs in Historical Perspective. He is currently working on a study of Chicago and the nation at the end of the 1950s.
(One registration per form, please. Print multiple copies for additional registrants, as necessary.)
Fee: (Note: No Refunds After March 1, 1999)
(By March 1, 1999) $27 for members, $32 for non-members
(After March 1, 1999) $32 for members, $47 for non-members
(At the door**) $35 for members, $40 for non-members
** If you register at the door, lunch is not included.
CSAGSI
P.O. Box 313
Sugar Grove, IL 60554
Rooms are being held at the Hampton Inn, in Countryside, IL (next door to the west of William Tell/Holiday Inn) for conference attendees. A special room rate of $78.00 + tax (single or double) has been arranged. To make room reservations please call the Hampton Inn in Countryside, IL at (708) 354-5200 and ask for the special code CSA, when you book the room. A limited amount of rooms at the Hampton Inn have been reserved so please reserve early.