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.
Claire Smith-Burns opened the day from the grand staircase.
The first talk I attended was in this amazing circular room on the second floor:
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.
Then I went to Tara Shymanski who talked about “Sloooooow Genealogy” and methods to methodically and thoroughly organize and carry out research.
And continuing my theme of going to “organizing” talks, I couldn’t miss Cyndi Ingle’s “Maintaining an Organized Computer” talk.
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.
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.
The view out the window was spectacular.
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.