Our 2024 Fall Conference will be a hybrid program, in person at the Minnesota Genealogy Center, 1385 Mendota Heights Road, Suite 100, Mendota Heights, MN and virtually via Zoom. Times listed are Central Daylight Time.
Kathy Meade is the North American representative for ArkivDigital, a company offering online access to newly photographed color images of the Swedish church books and other historical records. She has been working with Swedish genealogy for about twenty years. Ms. Meade serves on the advisory board for the Swedish American Genealogy Research Center at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. She volunteers at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago and the Arlington Heights Memorial Library in Arlington Heights, Illinois helping patrons with their Swedish genealogical research. In a previous life, she lived and worked in Sweden and Norway for seven years during the 1990s learning the languages.
Kathy will present the following topics:
“Swedish American Church Records—A Great Genealogical Resource”
“Swedish Military Research is Becoming Easier”
“What is New in ArkivDigital?”
The conference will be live-streamed and recorded, so registrants will have access to recordings for a period of time after the event. Conference registrants will be emailed speaker notes and a link to the conference on Zoom three days prior to the event.
Door Prizes
One-year individual membership to SGSM (2)
Three-month gift certificate to ArkivDigital
One-year individual membership to MGS
One RootsMagic 10 software package
One Family Tree Maker 2019/2024 software package
Plus: ArkivDigital specials for all registrants
You do not have to register for the door prizes. The winners will be picked at random from the list of registrants and will be announced during the lunch break.
The registration fee is $60 per attendee for members or $70 per attendee for non-members. Registration must be received by October 9 (or October 4 if you order a box lunch).
Please NOTE: Registration does NOT include lunch.
Register using your credit card or PayPal - you do not need a PayPal account to use this button (please enter the name of the attendee in the field below):
If you prefer to mail your registration with a check, print and mail this Registration Form. It must be received by October 9 (or October 4 if you are ordering a lunch).
Research Assistance By Appointment 2:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Take the opportunity to break through one of your Swedish genealogical brick walls by scheduling an appointment with one of our crack volunteer research specialists. Schedule an appointment by emailing research@sgsmn.org.
Vendors
We are inviting vendors to attend and we will have our always popular books-for-donations table.
Conference Schedule
9:00-9:30 Check in and Registration
9:30-9:45 Welcome
9:45-10:45 Presentation
10:45-11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 Presentation
12:15-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00 Presentation
2:00-2:15 Wrap Up
2:15-4:00 Research Assistance
