My Talk on Outhouses at the Maine Genealogical Society Family History Conference

The Maine Genealogical Society Family History Conference will be held on Saturday, September 25, at the Point Lookout Resort & Conference Center in Northport, Maine. This is a great resort on the waterfront, and the genealogy conference is being held during the foliage season, a great time to visit Maine's rockbound coast.

If I may engage in a bit of shameless self-promotion, I'll point out that I will be delivering the keynote address with the title of Maine Outhouses I Have Known and Loved. Yes, you read that right. THOSE outhouses. I'll even describe a three-story outhouse and will hopefully have a photo or two as well.

I will suggest that this is a non-traditional topic for genealogy conferences!

Of course, there are quite a few other presenters who are speaking on traditional topics, including:

• Conservation: Keeping Up With Technology presented by Dick Eastman
• Full Fathom Five: A Daughter's Search presented by Mary Lee Fowler
• Preserving Your Digital Photographs presented by David Mishkin
• Researching Your Swedish Ancestors from Maine presented by Kay Sheldon
• Researching Your World War II Ancestor presented by Jack Battick
• The Organized Genealogist presented by Dick Eastman
• Tips on Interpreting Town Clerk's Handwriting presented by Marlene Groves
• Treasures in your Town Vault presented by Kathy Montejo
• Wikis for Genealogists presented by Dick Eastman

Point Lookout is on a side road near Route 1 in Northport, which is north of Lincolnville and Camden, two of the towns where “Peyton Place” was filmed. It is near Camden and Rockland and is not too far from Bar Harbor. It is about 80 miles northeast of Portland, Maine and about 170 miles from Boston, Massachusetts. I have attended this conference several times in the past and know that it attracts attendees from all over Maine, as you would expect, plus a few others from distant states. I have met genealogists from Texas and California at this conference in past years.

If you would like to visit Maine in the height of the foliage season, spend a day or two along the rockbound coast, stay at a major resort, learn about genealogy, and perhaps learn about outhouses, you will enjoy this conference.

For more information about the Maine Genealogical Society Family History Conference, go to http://www.maineroots.org

For more information about the Point Lookout Resort & Conference Center (pictured to the right, click on the image for a larger picture), look at http://www.visitpointlookout.com/