ALERT: Limited extra hotel rooms available

ALERT As of this morning, the Sheraton has just opened up an additional 5 rooms per night at the NERGC rate.   These are rooms with only 1 king sized bed per room and will be available  until the end of this week, March 25th. Sheraton Springfield Monarch Place Hotel One Monarch Place Springfield, MA  01144 Read More

Update on Saturday’s NEAPG Hosted Luncheon

S-316, NEAPG Hosted Luncheon Attendees -keep thinking about what you’d like to talk about over lunch. Members of the Association of Professional Genealogists, New England Chapter, will be at each table at Saturday’s luncheon to guide a focused discussion.  You must be registered for the luncheon in order to attend, but there is no registration Read More

FREE Cemetery Tours to start off NERGC

Did you know that the New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC) is offering two free cemetery tours on Wednesday, April 6, 2011? W-103 11:00 A.M. Springfield Cemetery Tour #1W-104 2:00 P.M. Springfield Cemetery Tour #2 Springfield Cemetery is a rural cemetery that highlights both history and natural beauty. There are about 14 generations of New Read More

Have Lunch with a Professional Genealogist

On Saturday, April 9, 2011, members of the New England Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists (NEAPG) will host a luncheon for the New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC). This luncheon hosted by the NEAPG provides attendees the opportunity to talk with others about a focused genealogical topic during lunch. Each topic table will Read More

Speaker Interview Round Up

Official Bloggers for the New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC) 2011 recently wrapped up round one of speaker interviews.  Here’s the entire list in case you missed any (click on the name of the speaker to go directly to the interview): Colleen Fitzpatrick – interviewed by Cynthia Shenette on the Heritage Zen blog D. Joshua Read More

NERGC Speaker wins RootsTech Award

D. Joshua Taylor, a speaker at the upcoming New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC), recently won an award at the highly successful and well attended RootsTech conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Josh, the Director of Education and Programs and the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), won the RootsTech Distinguished Presenter Award for his Read More

Society Profile – The New England Chapter of APG

The New England Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists (NEAPG) is one of the 22 participating societies in the 2011 New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC).  The New England Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists (NEAPG) is the local chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG). NEAPG is designed to be a Read More

Special Interest Groups

There are now ten Special Interest Groups that will be held on Thursday, 7 April at 7:30 p.m. at the NERGC Conference. These informal discussion groups cover a range of topics from ethnic research to graveyard research to professional development. Recently, changes were made to the Irish/Irish-American Special Interest Group to make it even more Read More

Last Day to Save on NERGC Registration!

Today is the LAST DAY to save $25 on registration for the New England Regional Genealogical Conference (NERGC).    Be sure to complete your registration online or make sure your registration is postmarked with today’s date in order to receive the Early Bird rate. At NERGC you’ll find: Keynote Speakers: John Philip Colletta & Paul Milner Read More