ROCHESTER GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY NEWS NOTES:
Robert Heselberth

COMPUTER INTEREST GROUP

If you are interested in computer genealogy, please contact Jim Hall (#381). RGS is considering staring a computer special interest group. Meetings and programs are still to be determined. The objective of the group will be to share ideas, information, and techniques for using computers for genealogical record keeping and research. If you have not filled in a computer survey questionnaire, send a SASE to Jim and he will forward you one.

EDITOR & PUBLISHER NEEDED FOR HEAR YE

If you have a computer and would like to use it for some desktop publishing, the RGS needs you! The current Hear-Ye co-editors will have been at it for five years this coming June, and would like to step aside. The job has been broken down into small assignments for a variety of people who contribute. This has minimized the work that the editors must do to produce three issues per year.

The transition to new editors shouldn't be difficult. Bob Hesselberth has offered to continue to help with the next few issues. Volunteers for the job are asked to phone either Bob Heselberth or Jim Roome to discuss the matter.

NEW FISCAL YEAR

At the September 1990 meeting a vote was taken to approve changing our fiscal year end to June 30th. This will make our fiscal year coincide with our membership year, and eliminate confusion about the period that our annual dues cover.

GENEALOGICAL CONFERENCE IN ROCHESTER
Jim Ault

July 5th, 6th and 7th (1990) offered an unique opportunity for local genealogists to attend a conference at Rochester's Riverside Convention Center. Some fifty plus meetings were scheduled over the three-day period and the total attendance was between 400 and 500 people. A number of RGS members took part as speakers, volunteers and participants. The conference was organized by Genealogical Conference of New York, Inc.

The RGS booth in the exhibit area generated considerable interest, we acquired seven new members, as well as selling a number of our publications and canvas tote bags. Dick Halsey demonstrated the computer index of Genesee Country Family File and did searches of the index for a number of interested people.

The theme of the conference, "Crossing the Border," was developed by presentations dealing with the movement of our ancestors through the history of our nation. Talks were offered on topics such as Migration--England to New England, New England to New York, Connecticut to the Western Reserve (Ohio), and tracing the Origins of the Palatines of New York.

Speakers included nationally known genealogists such as Hank Jones Jr. of California, Gary Boyd Roberts and William Schoeffler of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Kip Sperry and Jayare Roberts of the Family History Library of Salt Lake City, Gordon Remington of Salt Lake City, Maralyn Wellauer of Milwaukee, John Haisey of York, Pennsylvania, David Paul Davenport of Marietta, Georgia, and Leland Meitzler of Orting, Washington.

Speakers from the Rochester area, many of whom are RGS members included: Dr. Stanley Ames, Wayne Arnold, Craig Braack, Scott B. Chase, Susan Conklin, Phyllis Hackelman, John Larish, Ruth Metzler, Ruth Naparstick, Lawrence Naukam, Ronald Nichols, Robert Rowe, and Walter Steesy, conference chairman, Speakers were also present representing the New York State Archives, New Brunswick Archives, Ontario Archives, Quebec Archives, Canadian National Archives, and The United Empire Loyalists Association.

Attendees went home with a renewed appreciation of the continual migrations that our ancestor's experienced in their quest for a better life for themselves and their families. The personal sacrifices of leaving homes in Europe to emigrate to a new land with almost no hope of ever returning, even for a brief visit, is more than most people today would even consider. Many families had similar experiences as they moved West over the couple of hundred years our country was being settled. The desire for seeking "A Better Life" had to be very strong as well as a firm faith in the belief that it would be found somewhere.

Some twenty-five publishers, information suppliers, etc. had booths offering genealogical materials and data. Computer training classes were offered for record keeping, writing, and publishing. As stated elsewhere TRIAD tapes of the lectures are available for loan through our Society.

MARRIAGE LIST FROM DIARY OF REV. J. T. HUMPHREY
Julie Steitz

Rev. Humphrey was minister to the Methodist Episcopal Church in Penfield, Monroe Co., New York. The original diary, in the hands of a descendant, was photo copied by the historian of the Methodist Church and given to the Penfield Local History library. It is presumed that if another locality is not specifically listed, the "place" is Penfield.

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