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From: "Celia Mitschelen" <>
Subject: [GEN-EVENTS-L] German Conference 2001
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:25:39 -0600


German Conference June 16, 2001 at the Des Moines Botanical Center in Des
Moines, Iowa

The annual German Conference, sponsored German Interest Group of the Iowa
Genealogical Society., will be held Saturday June 16, 2001 at the Des Moines
Botanical Center in Des Moines, Iowa

The speaker will be Trudy Schenk, A.G., she is one of the leading Germanic
genealogy and emigration research scholars and emigration authors in America
today as well as highly skilled at reading the old German script and
researching in church records.

She was born and educated in Germany and emigrated to America in 1958 at the
age of 20. She became an Accredited Genealogist (German language specialty)
with the Family History Library in 1978. Living in Park City, Utah she
spends her days doing German research at the Family History Library in Salt
lake City and her evenings entering names of emigrants into her database.
She also is a volunteer consultant at the International Reference Desk (B-1)
at the Family History Library. She has done professional research for
twenty-six years in German, Latin and French records.

Trudy is co-author of the Wuerttemberg Emigration Index series (volumes 1-7)
of books. Volumes 1-5 each contain 12,000 names of emigrants, while Volume
6 and 7 covers 24,000 emigrants each. Currently, she is working on an 8th
volume which will conclude the series of Wuerttemberg Emigration Indexes.
She has expanded her emigrant research to include a database of other areas
of Germany such as Saxony-Meiningen, Saxony-Coburg, Bavaria, Hessen and
Baden. A yearly research trip to Germany is part of her agenda working in
archives and parishes. She has spoken at many German genealogy seminars and
conferences throughout the United States.

By special arrangement, the Iowa Genealogical Society Library will be open
on Sunday for the use of Conference attendees at no extra cost.

For more information e-mail me at .

Celia Mitschelen

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