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#UTPCruise - The last day of a great genealogy conference and cruise. Day #18 - Last day of #UTPCruise 10 - Diane Foster talks about photo preservation pic.twitter.com/zKCTAGI8wU— Louis Kessler (@louiskessler) March 2, 2016 2nd talk of the day #UTPCruise - Helen Smith on Genealogical Learning ...

#UTPCruise - Nearing the end. Day 15 - Adelaide: My wife and I took a tour to the hills southeast of the city where we tasted a little wine.My favorite scenery picture I took so far on #UTPCruise is this one from the foothills southeast of Adelaide pic.twitter.com/Si6BqGI9Qr— Louis Kessler ...

#UTPCruise - Still cruisin' and it's great combining pleasure (genealogy) with vacation (cruise). Day 12 - At sea. A full slate of genealogy programs. I took this day off. Day 13 - Melbourne. This was a land-based program that Unlock the Past put on for the Melbourne residents. They are doing the same in ...

#UTPCruise - New Zealand was an amazingly beautiful scenery and contrasts. We head now for Sydney, Australia a city whose 4.6 million people are more than the number of people in all of New Zealand. Our 2nd day at sea on the way to Sydney gave another opportunity for a full slate of talks. Some of the ...

#UTPCruise - Day 6 we were tendered in Akaroa, New Zealand where I spent the day with penguins and sheep. Paul Blake gave the feature talk that evening: New Zealand sheep checking out their Irish roots with the help of Paul Blake #UTPCruise Unlock The Past pic.twitter.com/aKfUGGbEAU— Louis Kessler ...

#UTPCruise - this is a long cruise being 18 days, and we start with many days that we dock at a new city. On those days, all the genealogy cruisers have the day off to visit the destination and to take whatever tour or to relax and catch their breath. Those days, we only have a single talk at 8 p.m. following ...

#UTPCruise - Boarded the Celebrity Solstice at 2:30 pm. We had a few hours to get our cabins organized and then headed off for supper. All the Conference participants had a corner of the main dining room in the 6 p.m. session reserved for them, and so it all began. At 8pm, we met for the "Meet and Greet". ...

#UTPCruise - Cheryl and I arrived in Auckland after 24 hours of travelling leaving -22C temps for +25C and the extra sunshine of the longer days that come with summer. Auckland in a cosmopolitan city of 1.5 million people, making up one-third the population of New Zealand. The world has homogenized to the ...

Brian Madsen came through and it was worth the wait. This is the earliest GEDCOM standard yet that has been rediscovered. Regarding the copyright, I did have an email conversation with Judy Russell, the Legal Genealogist in November 2014 about it. Her opinion to me was: “the Church … distributed its ...

Further adventures in the attempt to rediscover the long lost early GEDCOM standards have once again come up with something significant. You may or may not remember that just over a year ago, I started this venture: Newly Rediscovered: GEDCOM 4.0 (and a bonus!) More GEDCOM Archaelogical Discoveries ...