(Cross posted to Azores, Madeira, IslandRoutes lists) The last genealogy conference in Salt Lake City, Utah was September 5-9, 2016 (last year - week of American Labor Day).
We'd like to have them about every 18 months, but sometimes the planning gods are not on our side. Salt Lake hosts many large conferences. They host the genealogy kind (RootsTech, Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy), they host non-genealogy kind (LDS/Mormon Conference, Comic Con), and they host business conferences (stuff like the Western Association of Orthopedic Surgeons, for example). When there's a big conference in town the hotel raises its rates as a "conference" rate. And they make more money off of those than us. OK, they are business that needs to maximize their profits. Originally, we wanted to aim for the spring of next year. I cannot really begin negotiations with the hotel until a year out, but they know of the big conferences. And those big ones are raining on our parade. So then we started looking at THIS YEAR again. The hotel has the week of August 29-September 1st available. This is the week before American Labor Day. (They don't have the week of Labor Day available - some big conference chose Salt Lake as its host city). This makes the conference only 1 year away from the previous one. Will there be enough interest to have it only 1 year later? It would be hosted by just me and Rosemarie. We are unable to coordinate with Joao in September. We'd have to try again with Joao in the spring of 2019 (he's in America in the spring). Is the end of August and the beginning of September interfering with vacation plans? Back to school plans? Too close to the other conference? Giving feedback is not agreeing to come. It's just giving me information on planning. Thanks, Cheri Cheri Mello Listowner, Azores-Gen Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada -- 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]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
