Today's the first official day of the convention.
Exciting news out today – we’re in the process of signing an agreement with the Odessa archive, similar to the ones we have with Nikolaev and Simferopol, to get records out of there! This is fabulous news for many of our Black Sea GRs, as it has been very difficult to get information from that archive. Watch the Heritage Review for future updates!
In the morning business meeting, 7 candidates were nominated for the 5 open Board of Directors positions. The nominees are: Gayla Aspenleiter, Rich Aspenleiter, Deb Beick, Al Feist, David Kilwien, and Margaret Rehwalt. Elections will be at tomorrow’s business meeting.
Today was a big day for Regional Interest Group meetings with Bessarabia, Beresan District, Grossliebental District, Germans to Poland-Prussia to Russia, Crimea, and the Glückstal Colonies Research group all meeting to elect new officers and talk about new developments in research for those areas.
Lots of other workshops throughout the day…more reports on those over the next couple of days.
The Black Hills chapter entertained the lunch group with a skit in GR dialects. The evening program included a local sculptor who worked on a project to sculpt U.S. presidents’ statutes which can be seen throughout downtown Rapid City and Mylo Hatzenbuhler. No words to describe that one! J You missed out if you weren’t here!
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