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Saturday, June 6, 2026

NGS 2026 Fort Wayne: Day 1

    


   The conference was opened by President David E. Rencher, and Sunny Jane Morton's moving talk "How Learning about the Past Can Change the Future: Family Stories and Intergenerational Identity". The attendance was definitely an increase from last year's in Louisville, I suspect because of the ACPL Genealogy Center. 

President David E. Rencher



Sunny Jane Morton




Judy Nimer Muhn and Andre Kerns


Congratulations to my long time friend Randy Seaver!



Congratulations to my DNA Cousin LaBrenda!


The next big campaign push by Judy!


NGS Executive Director Matt Menashes, CAE


They used my quote on the big screen!



   


CLASSES ATTENDED


There were so many classes to choose from that it was extremely hard. So many great speakers and topics! Luckily, NGS recorded a lot of them and I can listen to them online until July 15th. 


Made with ChatGPT



    By far the most surprising, informative, and very comical speaker was Dr. Penny Walters from the U.K. She blew my mind! If you have the chance to listen to her recorded class on the NGS-Whova app, please do!

   NOTE: I do not post my thoughts on every class I attended. I am not good at it, but let me say that every class was exceptional. NGS has a knack for attracting the best of the best in the genealogy world. This is more of a visual documentary of my time.


SOME PICS


David M. McCorkle's class



BCG Lunch



BCG Lunch

I was asked to take the official photographs of the newly “pinned” BCG associates. 

BCG Lunch



Dr. Jones at the BCG Lunch


Alice Childs' class



Carolyn Ladd's class



More Photos



Book signing is popular!

NGS Volunteer and friend Kristi Sexton

Good friend Catherine B.W. Desmarais

Catherin B.W. Desmarais signing "Forensice Genealogy"

Cairenn Binder, Michael S. Ramage and Caterine B.W. Desmarais

Dr. Thomas W. Jones

Got to get a selfie!

Roger Moffat with Lisa at the ftDNA table

Author and Speaker Ric Murphy signing my books!

Renate Yarborough-Sanders and Dr. Shelley Murphy

A nice get together for Roger Moffat (in hat)

Friend and President of the Georgia Genealogical Society, Lillian Wingate




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