{"id":351607,"date":"2010-02-22T22:52:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:52:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:52:45","slug":"family-history-day-in-boston-turns-out-to-be-a-tremendous-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/351607","title":{"rendered":"Family History Day in Boston Turns Out to Be a Tremendous Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got a note today from NEHGS&#8217;s Tom Champoux about the success of the &#8220;Family History Day&#8221; in Boston, sponsored by the  New England Historic  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/the-consultation-room.jpg\" alt=\"The consultation room. They had 25 tables for consults \u2013 75 consults each hour for 7 hours.\" title=\"The consultation room. They had 25 tables for consults \u2013 75 consults each hour for 7 hours.\" width=\"250\" height=\"155\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7961\" \/> Genealogical Society and Ancestry.com.  The event was held Saturday, Feb 20th at the Westin Copley Place Hotel and brought in more than 700 people from all across New England and New York.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/rhonda-mcclure-lecture-phot.jpg\" alt=\"Rhonda McClure lecture photo\" title=\"Rhonda McClure lecture photo\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7963\" \/>  Registrants had opportunities to attend lectures by both Ancestry.com and NEHGS staffers. They were also invited to bring in family papers, documents, and photographs for free scanning into electronic format by Ancestry.com. Ancestry states that they scanned more than 2,000 documents and photos for about 125 people. This breaks Ancestry\u2019s all-time record for one day of scanning.<\/p>\n<p>Registrants also had an opportunity to sign up for 15-minute, 1-on-1 consultations with expert genealogists from NEHGS and the Association of   <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/the-ancestrycom-scanning-s.jpg\" alt=\"One of 5 Ancestry.com scanning stations\" title=\"One of 5 Ancestry.com scanning stations\" width=\"240\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7966\" \/> Professional Genealogists &#8211; New England Chapter. Over 500 consultations were given by more than 30 professional genealogists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/book-sales-at-the-family-hi.jpg\" alt=\"The book sales area at the Family History Day in Boston 2010\" title=\"The book sales area at the Family History Day in Boston 2010\" width=\"230\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7968\" \/>  Tom also noted that &#8221; &#8230;we organized the entire event in mid-December, giving us about 2 months of planning time to pick a venue and create the day\u2019s events. Ancestry was incredibly pleased that we were able to help bring 700+ people to the hotel for the day. It should be worth noting that we had another 300 people on a wait-list, and the hotel receive more than 150 additional phone calls from people wanting to register.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been hearing for some time that the event was &#8220;sold out.&#8221; It&#8217;s nice to see the hobby of genealogy getting this kind of reception.  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/brenda-smith-consultation.jpg\" alt=\"Brenda Smith consultation\" title=\"Brenda Smith consultation\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7974\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a note today from NEHGS&#8217;s Tom Champoux about the success of the &#8220;Family History Day&#8221; in Boston, sponsored by the New England Historic Genealogical Society and Ancestry.com. The event was held Saturday, Feb 20th at the Westin Copley Place Hotel and brought in more than 700 people from all across New England and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}