I attended the Ontario Genealogical Society Conference held in Oakville, Ontario, Canada from May 29-31, 2009. There, I finally met several genealogy colleagues and friends in person, including Louise St. Denis from the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, Sharon Murphy from Timelines Genealogical Research and fellow bloggers Janet Iles from Janet the Researcher and Brenda Dougall Merriman from Brenda Dougall Merriman.
It wasn’t hard to meet these people. Louise and Sharon recognized me when I walked into the their workshops at the conference. Brenda spotted me wandering around in the vendor area and came over to give me a hug.
My encounter with Janet, however, was like something out of Psychic Genealogy. I was looking for a place to sit down and eat lunch on Saturday and spotted an empty chair across from a friendly looking conference attendee who turned out to be Janet!
Louise St. Denis
SOURCE: Louise St. Denis (Oakville, Ontario, Canada). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 May 2009.
Steve Danko and Janet Iles
SOURCE: Steve Danko and Janet Iles (Oakville, Ontario, Canada). Photographed for Stephen J. Danko on 30 May 2009.
Sharon Murphy
SOURCE: Sharon Murphy (Oakville, Ontario, Canada). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 May 2009.
Steve Danko and Brenda Dougall Merriman
SOURCE: Steve Danko and Brenda Dougall Merriman (Oakville, Ontario, Canada). Photographed for Stephen J. Danko on 31 May 2009.
Copyright © 2009 by Stephen J. Danko
Steve, I am so glad your blog is up and working again. It must have been a terrible scare when it was down.
Thanks for your kind words, Barbara.
The blog went down just before I went on vacation – the worst possible timing! Most of the blog is now working again, but I still need to fix some broken links and replace missing images.
The good news is that I now have some help with the blog. I’ll post more about that later. You should be seeing some interesting changes in the blog in the near future!
Steve
It was so wonderful to meet you at the conference. How fortunate that you asked me if you could join me at my table. Great photos.