Hi Cheri - this fall would be too soon for me. I need time to assimilate what I learned at the last one, I'm still sorting through it! I love these conferences, for the information, access to the library and networking with others researching our roots. You and Rosemarie do a great job! I would definitely plan to come if it were held in the spring of 2018.
thanks! On Friday, February 3, 2017 at 2:02:49 PM UTC-8, Cheri Mello wrote: > > (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.
