Crowe’s Nest by Elizabeth Powell Crowe

The nom de plume of Pat Richley, author of DearMYRTLE’s Joy of Genealogy (2006), The Everything Online Genealogy Book (2000), instructor at DearMYRTLE’s Salt Lake Study Group, hostess of DearMYRTLE’s Family History Hour genealogy podcasts, author of Teach Genealogy Blog, and coordinator for UGG The Union of Genealogy Groups in Second Life, DearMYRTLE will speak this weekend at the Mesa, Arizona Family History Expo.
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The Keynote speaker is Don R. Anderson, Senior Vice President of services for FamilySearch. Anderson has the  responsibility for the FamilySearch Family History Library as well as FamilySearch worldwide support. He has traveled to more than 27 countries on five continents to ensure that services are available to those around the world searching for their ancestors.

Beau Sharbrough, vice president of content at the history website, Footnote.com, will also speak. This popular writer and lecturer on technical topics in genealogy is a former president of GENTECH, the founder of the FGS and GENTECH websites, and formerly worked on tree products at Ancestry.com. He lives in Orem UT.

For details, check out this site:

New York City-based 2AFRIKA, INC. announced  a new addition to its Safari Portfolio – an 11-DAY PRESIDENTIAL HERITAGE SAFARI – introducing president-elect Barack H. Obama’s Ancestral Heritage.

The 11-DAY PRESIDENTIAL HERITAGE SAFARI will depart dailyfrom the United States, bound for Nairobi, Mt. Kenya Forest, Lake Nakuru National Park, and the Maasai Mara Game Reserve for a fully inclusive Game Safari before heading northwest to the city of Kisumu, located on the shores of Lake Victoria and a mere stone’s throw away from the birthplace of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. in 1936.

An additional two nights are spent in Kisumu, during which
time travelers will visit the village of Kogelo, the final resting place of Obama Sr. (and still today the home of Barack Obama’s extended family), drive to the shore of Lake Victoria, visit the Kisumu Museum and the city, as well as visit a Luo ethnic group village to learn firsthand more of the cultural heritage of the United States’ first African-American President.

11-DAY PRESIDENTIAL HERITAGE SAFARI

– Air-Inclusive from the United States
– Visits: Mt. Kenya Forest, Lake Nakuru National Park,
Maasai Mara National Park, Kisumu, Lake Victoria and Kogelo
– 7 Safari Activities (including National Park entrance
fees)
– 21 Meals
– Highlight visits to Kogelo, a predominantly Luo ethnic
group area, to learn firsthand more of the ancestry of the
44th President of the United States of America

For further information, contact:

Kenneth R. Hieber
kenneth@2afrika.com
(212) 385-9770

http://www.2afrika.com