NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

18 JUNE 2003

 

Contact: Kathleen W. Hinckley, CGRS, Executive Director,

Association of Professional Genealogists

P.O. Box 350998, Westminster, CO 80035-0998

Phone 303-422-9371, fax 303-456-8825, e-mail admin@apgen.org

 

Prepared by: Richard F. Robinson, CGRS, Information Officer,

Association of Professional Genealogists, e-mail rfr252@aol.com

 

 

Professional Genealogists to Meet to Fine-tune, Learn  Business Skills

 

 

The place to be for professional genealogists seeking to advance their careers

will be in Orlando, Florida this fall at the Association of Professional Genealogists Sixth Annual Professional Management Conference (PMC).

 

Genealogists and those in related professions from North America and overseas will gather to learn from the masters in a full day of lectures on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2003 in the Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld.  The PMC will be held in conjunction with Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) and Florida State Genealogical Society’s 2003 Conference at the Resort from Sept. 3-6.

 

The management conference is designed to help beginning to veteran professional genealogists, analysts, librarians, researchers, teachers, writers and others in family history to balance a variety of skills necessary to run a successful business. “It takes lots of talent to balance computer technology with lecturing, research, and other skills and also find a way to a business profit,” says Eileen Polakoff, PMC coordinator.

 

Anyone may attend the PMC with payment of FGS and PMC registration fees to FGS. Go to www.apgen.org and www.fgs.org for more details and complete program information. The PMC fee includes a separate syllabus and “networking” luncheon plus lots of fun with many door prizes. Early registration discounts end July 15, and space is limited.

 

“Attendees say they learn more about their business in one day at the PMC than all year on their own,” Polakoff says. “We can almost guarantee you will make contacts there that will send you business.”

 

Nine in-depth PMC lecturers will cover these subjects (presented by): word processing tricks (Pamela Boyer Porter, CGRS, CGL), APG’s Professional Review Committee (Elissa Scalise Powell, CGRS), house histories (Helen F.M. Leary, CG, CGL, FASG), earning a living as a genealogist (Louise St. Denis), right of privacy (Donn Devine, CG, CGI), genealogy education (Tony Burroughs), learning to write [Sherry Irvine, CGRS, FSA(Scot)], on-site client research (James W. Warren), and expanding your business beyond client research (Paula Stuart Warren, CGRS).

 

APG, established in 1979 and based near Denver, is the leading worldwide professional organization of genealogists and related professionals with more than 1,400 members in all populated continents.

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