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Kelowna District Genealogy Conference Day 2 - Sat, 29 Sep 2018

Today at the #kdgs2018 in Kelowna B.C. was a full slate of talks in 4 time slots, 2 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon, with 7 speakers to choose from in each time slot.

The venue today was another beautiful space, this time at the Okanagan College.

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Claire Smith-Burns opened the day from the grand staircase.

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The first talk I attended was in this amazing circular room on the second floor:

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In that room, Mary Read gave me many new ideas for “Research in the Prairie Provinces.” This was the perfect talk with respect to my own research.

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Then I went to Tara Shymanski who talked about “Sloooooow Genealogy” and methods to methodically and thoroughly organize and carry out research.

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And continuing my theme of going to “organizing” talks, I couldn’t miss Cyndi Ingle’s “Maintaining an Organized Computer” talk.

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The fourth talk I went to for the day was my own on “Using Double Match Triangulation to Find DNA Ancestors”. I thought it was well attended with 16 in the room, especially considering I was talking opposite Blaine Bettinger, Cyndi Ingle, Helen Smith, Dave Obee, Lesley Anderson and Mary Read.

At 4:50 was the big raffle, so the entire crowd assembled together for one final farewell while all the vendors gathered up their wares.

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The 12 speakers were then invited to join the KDGS executive and all the volunteers to a very nice buffet dinner at the Harvest Golf Course. 

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The view out the window was spectacular.

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It was a wonderful way to conclude the Conference and I got to talk to other speakers who talks I couldn’t attend, including Blaine Bettinger, Dave Obee, Andrea Lister, Lesley Anderson and Geoff Doherty.

This was a very well organized and attended Conference. My congrats to Claire, her committee, and all the volunteers. It was a pleasure to be a part of it.

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