EOGN's Announcements

Association of Professional Genealogists' Professional Management Conference

The following is an announcement written by the Association of Professional Genealogists:

Although the discount seats are gone, you can still get a ticket to attend what appears to be another great Association of Professional Genealogists' Professional Management Conference on August 30 at the FGS conference hotel, the Sheraton Boston, in historic Back Bay Boston.

Not sure about attending? Here's what you'll be missing!

BCG Announces new Certified Genealogists

The following is an announcement from the Board for Certification of Genealogists:

The Board for Certification of Genealogists proudly announces three new certified genealogists.

Civil War Medicine Brown Bag Lecture to be offered at the East Tennessee Historical Society

KNOXVILLE, TN (July 7, 2006)  The East Tennessee Historical Society is proud to host a Brown Bag Lecture “A Heroic Struggle:  Civil War Medicine and Modern Warfare,” presented by Dr. Anthony Hodges on Wednesday, July 12 at noon.  Armies of the American Civil War were able to bring to the battlefield a deadly ability to kill and maim their enemies in unprecedented numbers.  Unfortunately for the average soldier, medical practices had not advanced at the same rate.  Doctors and surgeons of both the Union and Confederate armies were often overwhelmed with unprecedented casualty rates and rampant diseases.  Dr. Anthony Hodges of Chattanooga has conducted extensive research into the means by which the medical staffs of both armies were able to cope with these demands and the surprising degree to which they were successful.

SmallTownPapers News Service

Seattle, WA - The SmallTownPapers News Service (STPNS) has become the first news service dedicated exclusively to providing wide distribution of real-time news and information from small towns across the country.  STPNS offers online feeds of news and feature articles, photographs, sports statistics, vital statistics and other newsworthy information from small market newspapers content which, until now, has not been available for wide distribution.

"Newspapers from small towns have long been overlooked by media and information gathering industries such as news services because it was too expensive to gather small market news," said Paul Jeffko, president and founder of SmallTownPapers.  "STPNS gives these newspapers a way to share their news and information with the world and gives consumers and organizations an easy way to access local content of interest to them."