OK, let me explain more and give the count so far. For the new people on the list, Rosemarie Capodicci and I have organized a group of Azorean researchers and gone to Salt Lake City, Utah with them. I think we averaged 30 or 40 something of us.
Most of us have to fly in. So Monday evening is more of a meet and greet. Tuesday we start the conference. Part of it is held at the Plaza hotel and part is next door at the Family History Library. If you are brand new to genealogy or don't yet have your island or freguesia (village), we have classes and lectures on how to get started. You would start on that track and follow the classes all the way to the end. These classes include topics such as organization, where to look for vital records, censuses, city directories, obits, and the naturalization process. Then as the days go on, we explain the organization of the records in the Azores, where to look, and how to "read" them. We reserve the computer lab for some classes for hands on learning with the CCA site, the CITCEM (formerly NEPS), and online newspaper databases. For those that know their freguesia already, you would pick the track that begins with the research over there and how to "read" the records. Every evening, Rosemarie and I are on the International floor for guided research, where we will sit with you and help you "read" those lovely records. After hours, we have taken over the Plaza's library and talked the night away, commandeered the television and watched "Who Do You Think You Are?" together, and took over the lobby and talked and talked. It's a lot of fun. The Plaza Hotel (our host hotel) runs some "Genealogy Free Night Specials." These are around slow times (winter and holidays). There is one around Easter 2014 and that's the "stay 3 nights and get the 4th free" with the room being $85 plus taxes. Otherwise, we are just offered an $85 a night group rate (regular is $129 a night). Our choices and the count: Arriving Monday, April 7 (for the out of town people) with the conference being Tuesday, April 15 - Friday, April 11 (just the group rate of $85 a night): 3 people Week before Easter Sunday (Holy Week): Arriving Monday, April 14 (for out of town) with the conference being Tuesday April 15 - Friday April 18 (stay 3 and get the 4th free): 2 people preferred this. 6 people said either week would work. And 3 or 4 people discussed how to get there, but did not note a preference for which week. If anyone else wants to chime in here, please do. Otherwise, I may just flip a coin in a couple of days here and pick a week. Thanks, Cheri Mello & Rosemarie Capodicci Conference Organizers On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Cheri Mello <[email protected]> wrote: > The Salt Lake Plaza Hotel has a really good special going on during part > of April, 2014. > > The special is stay 3 nights (at $85 USD + taxes) and get the 4th night > free (regularly $129 a night). > > This would be from Monday, April 14th, through Sunday, April 20th, 2014. > Our conference would run from Tuesday, April 15th through Friday, April > 18th. EASTER SUNDAY is April 20th. > > So, if we pick the above dates, would it impact our attendance? If you > were to join us, would those dates work for you if you are considering > joining us (we are not going to hold you to it). > > The other dates we are thinking of are Tuesday, April 8 through Friday, > April 11, 2014. We would get the group rate of $85 USD a night, but no > special of stay 3 nights and get the 4th night free. > > Thanks! > Cheri Mello & Rosemarie Capodicci > Conference coordinators > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.
