PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

CONNECT TO THE HOLOGRAMS OF YOUR ANCESTORS
Beau Sharbrough will kick off the conference with his vision of Genealogy in 2020 – A Report from the Future , predicting a time when you might get answers from the holograms of your ancestors. Later in the Conference, on Friday from 4:45 P.M. – 5:45 P.M., Beau will speak on Automation Research Assistants: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly as part of the Conference’s Technology track. Beau is a Houston native and received a Philosophy BA from Texas A&M in 1977. His programming career began in 1980. He is presently director of content acquisition at Footnote.com and maintains the RootsWorks.com website. Beau was a product manager at Ancestry.com, and is a former president of GENTECH. He writes regularly on technical topics in family history, with an occasional overdose of humor.

CONNECT TO A NEW TECHNIQUE
Irene P. Lambert, MGA , presents Flushing Out the Inner Character Using Graphoanalysis at Session S-320, Saturday from 1:45 P.M. – 2:45 P.M. Irene, a Master Graphoanalyst, has been analyzing handwriting, teaching, giving seminars, and writing articles since 1987. She has specialized in Genealogy Handwriting Analysis for the past ten years, assisting clients in understanding the personality of their ancestors through the analysis of their handwriting. Irene was named Graphoanalyst of the Year in 2005 by the International Graphoanalysis Society.

CONNECT TO PERSONALITIES FROM THE PAST
John McNiff will do a living history portrayal of Roger Williams (Session T-106, Thursday from 1:30 P.M. – 2:30). John was raised in Warwick, Rhode Island . After college he joined the National Park Service. Presently he is a ranger at the Roger Williams Memorial National Park . His presentations on various historical personalities have always been well-received and appreciated by those in attendance.

Kevin Johnson will be presenting a portrayal of “William Webb: An African-American Civil War Soldier Saturday, April 28 (Session S-330).

Reverend Adam Söderberg concludes the conference with Sunday Morning Special Session S-401, "'Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God': A Portrayal of Reverend Jonathan Edwards."