Our kind of town...

I hope to meet district researchers in Chicago next month at the IAJGS conference. This will be my first IAJGS event so I'm looking forward to putting faces and names together. If you see me please stop and chat. I'll be with my mom - she'll also be glad to meet a landsman.

On a personal note, I'll be meeting three different sets of cousins while in Chicago:

• my great grandfather's brother's family - who settled in Chicago;
• my great great grandfather's brother's great granddaughter - coming in from New York; and
• descendants of a putative common great great great great grandfather who settled in St Paul MN, but drifted. (We need very early 19th century records to evidence the connection)

This is really very exciting and one of the great rewards for this genealogical obsession!