Conferences & Events

2012 NGS Research Trip to Salt Lake City

22–29 January 2012

• Space is limited to 30 attendees. 
• Registration Deadline: 1 January 2012

* Payments are required in full at time of registration
**No hotel accommodation provided, but it does include the group activities on Sun., Wed. and Sat. nights.

The Library

The Family History Library in Salt Lake City is the largest genealogical library in the world. You will have access to more than two million rolls of microfilm (more than 142,000 square feet on five floors), hundreds of thousands of microfiche, and a huge collection of genealogical books. The library opens at 8:00 a.m. and closes at 9:00 p.m. every day except Monday, when it closes at 5:00 p.m., and Sundays and certain holidays, when it is closed all day.

The Trip Directors

Marie Varrelman Melchiori, cg^*, cgl, and Shirley Langdon Wilcox, cg, fngs, will lead this trip. Both Marie and Shirley are experienced researchers familiar with the extensive resources available at the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City.

Marie Varrelman Melchiori, cg, cgl specializes in records in the National Archives, Washington, DC. Marie has lectured at National Genealogical Society and the Federation of Genealogical Societies National Conferences since 1988. She has lectured on military records for Samford University's IGHR and the Salt Lake Institute. She was the Assistant Director of the National Institute on Genealogical Research from 1988 to 2002, where she continues to lecture on military records. Marie has conducted workshops on military records and beginning genealogy for the National Archives. In September of 1999 and in 2000 she was one of the Trip Directors for the NGS Research Trip to Ireland. In 1999 the Association of Professional Genealogists awarded her the Graham T. Smallwood, Jr. Award of Merit.

Shirley Wilcox served two terms as NGS president and has been board certified as a genealogist since 1973. As a native Californian, she has experience tracing her own lines from New England and the South across the country to Northern California in the 1850s–1870s. As a professional genealogist, she has compiled lineages for clients whose ancestors lived in many geographic regions. Shirley was president of the Association of Professional    Genealogists 1991–1993, President of the Virginia Genealogical    Society 2007–2011, served on the Board for Certification of    Genealogists 2000–2009, and currently serves as a member of the    Board of Assistants of the Mayflower Descendants in the District of    Columbia. Since 1996 she has been the verifying genealogist of the    National Society Colonial Dames of America in the District of    Columbia. In 1995 she received the Grahame T. Smallwood Award of Merit from the Association of Professional Genealogists.

All registrants will receive information and advice about pre-trip planning. In addition, once in Salt Lake City, each participant will have the opportunity for ongoing consultation with Marie and Shirley.

Hotel Accommodations

The trip package price includes seven nights at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel, located next door to the Family History Library. The Plaza is ideally located not only for access to the library, but also for trolley rides to shopping malls, movie theaters, and restaurants.

Also included are an informal reception on the first Sunday evening, pizza on Wednesday evening, and a last-night dinner. For other meals you will be on your own. A list of nearby restaurants will be provided. There is a restaurant in the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel.

Other Expenses

Airfare is not included in the package price. Participants are responsible for meals other than those described above and for all personal expenses.

Cancellations

No refunds will be issued. Registrants canceling will receive credit toward a future NGS research trip.

Questions? Contact the Salt Lake City trip leader at slwilcox@juno.com.

* Payments are required in full at the time of registration.