The following announcement was written by the Ontario Genealogical Society:
The Ontario Genealogical Society
Conference 2013
Hosted by: The Durham Region Branch
May 31 – June 2, 2013
Location:
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology/ Durham College, Simcoe
Street North, Oshawa, Ontario.
Deadline for Submissions – 31 July, 2012
Selected speakers will be notified in the late summer of 2012.
Syllabus material (PDF files), due in late 2012, is require for each lecture or workshop presentation.
Our Conference 2013 theme will be:
Pulling up Stakes – Putting Down Roots
We invite lecture submissions on topics about migration from all over the world to Canada – to Ontario specifically from early times to the present.
They should include: why the people left their homeland, the method of transportation used and why and where they settled. Topics could also include movement from Ontario to other parts of Canada and the USA.
We also invite submissions on general genealogical topics including methodology, skills building, record analysis and problem solving. Lectures should keep our theme in mind and focus on the use of technology for research.
Sessions are generally limited to fifty minutes plus a ten-minute question and answer session.
Guidelines
Proposals should include the following information
Individuals may submit any number of proposals. Complete proposals must be e-mailed to 2013progcom@gmail.com with the subject: 2013 OGS Conference – Call for Speakers..
- Speaker’s full name, address, telephone and fax numbers and email address
- Lecture title, not to exceed fourteen words, and a brief but comprehensive outline.
- Short summary of the lecture; word count not to exceed twenty-five words, which will be used in the program, if selected.
- Speakers are to use an electronic presentation program and provide their own computers.
- Brief Speaker biography, not to exceed twenty-five words.
- Resume of recent lectures given by the speaker.
Speakers whose sessions are not sponsored will receive a complimentary full conference registration with a digital syllabus.
Besides remuneration, food, and lodging will be based on the number of lectures given, and transportation expenses will depend upon the speaker’s home address.
Speakers who have their sessions sponsored will receive a complimentary one-day registration for the day of the presentation. Any additional expenses related to conference registration, compensation, food, lodging and transportation expenses are per the discretion of the sponsoring organization.
Organizations wishing to sponsor a lecture or track of lectures at the 2013 OGS conference in Oshawa, Ontario, can receive information by contacting 2013progcom@gmail.com.
Questions? Contact the Programme Chair at 2013progcom@gmail.com.
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