Jamboree: Almost there!

Many geneabloggers are already on their way to Jamboree, in Burbank, California.

Although my trip to the US was likely the longest (15+ hours) of any of our geneabloggers, I'm likely the closest right now.

I've been staying with fellow genealogist and Mogilev, Belarus researcher Hilary Henkin, who lives only about 15 minutes from the Jamboree hotel. We'll be heading over there in a few hours. I'm rooming again with footnoteMaven - we had a great time last year.

Last night, Hilary and I had dinner with Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage.com, who had landed the day before yesterday and gave a talk in Antelope Valley only a few hours after he arrived.

Tracing the Tribe will be blogging from Jamboree, so stay tuned for the news from this excellent regional conference.

Sacramento: Converting old slides to CD, Aug. 17

"Converting 35mm slides to electronic format" will be presented by Ron Young at the next meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento on Monday, August 17.

The event starts at 7pm, at the Albert Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento.

Young, a member of the Nevada County Genealogical Society, specializes in computer application to genealogy projects and has written many columns for local genealogy newsletters.

He will present four different methods to convert old slides and display them without the use of a projector. He will cover how color shift in old slides can be corrected. On one CD, 400-600 slides can be stored. It can be played on your TV or computer, and you can easily make copies for other family members.

For more information about the JGS of Sacramento, click on its website, or send an email.