Some highlights from this issue are:

The newsletter also has links to past issues and numerous calendar events.

Barbara’s obituary appeared in the Denver Post, Wednesday, 30 July 2008, and is available online at “Barbara Brown.”

Barbara was active in the Colorado genealogical community for many years, member of the D.A.R. for fifty years, and was certified by the Board for Certification of Genealogists.

Services will be held at the Arapahoe Road Baptist Church, 780 E. Arapahoe Rd., Centennial on Friday, 1 August 2008, 11:00 a.m.

Thanks to Janice Prater for providing this information.

Dr. Ryan is the author of Irish Records-Sources for Family History & Local History, Tracing your Dublin Ancestors, Irish Church Records, and Sources for Irish Family History.

The seminar will be held at the Denver Public Library Conference Center, 13th and Broadway, Denver from 9 am-4 pm. The cost of the all day seminar is $25 if paid by 1 November, $30 if paid after that date.

The topics to be presented are:

• Basic Irish Genealogy
• Irish Church Records
• Irish Catholic Records
• Online Resources for Irish Research

Lunch will be on your own, brown bags are okay.

For more information contact:
Sandy Carter-Duff at sandy@carduff.com or (303) 777-1391 or
Jan Prater at the Denver Public Library, Western History & Genealogy.

The conference will be held downtown at the Pennsylvania Convention Center and there are several places close to the conference for research: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, NARA-Mid-Atlantic Region, Free Library of Philadelphia, and Philadelphia City Archives.

Two Colorado genealogists will be presenting lectures:

• Roberta “Bobbi” King
  Wednesday, 3 September, 11:30 a.m., “Voting: When Yes Means No, and No Means Yes”
  Saturday, 6 September, 9:30 a.m., “Survey First, Settle Later: A Discussion of the Public Lands Survey”
  Saturday, 6 September, 2 p.m., “Homestead Records: A Day in the Life of Your Ancestors”

• Julie Miller, CG
  Friday, 5 September, 11 a.m., “Carriers of News and Knowledge: Post Office Records”
  Saturday, 6 September, 8 a.m., “Google’s Not the Only Game in Town”
  Saturday, 6 September, 11 a.m., “Beyond Population Schedules”

FGS announced this week a “Bring the Whole Gang” member society discount. The discount will be given to
societies that bring at least five members to the conference. Details are at Conference Rebate.

For more information and to register for the conference, go to FGS Annual Conference.

For the latest information about the conference and related activities visit the FGS Conference Blog.

The new tri-fold brochure addresses the facts, pros, and myths for keeping public records open. It also gives guidelines for the access that we need.

The Committee has posted the brochure on the RPAC Web site and has given permission for local genealogical societies to reproduce it. Copies can also be ordered for 12 cents each plus shipping by contacting Jan Alpert at janalpert@aol.com.

The brochure follows the release of the “The Case for Open Records: A Position Paper” earlier this year by the Association of Professional Genealogists.

Open records has become a major issue for genealogists. Please take the time to educate yourself on the issue and share that information with friends, family, and your legislators.

The database was compiled over the past two years by a dedicated group of volunteers, headed by Jean Griesen as the volunteer coordinator. Karen Mitchell, coordinator of the Pueblo County GenWeb pages, has done a nice job of weaving the history of the Hospital and Legislation with the data.

Historic newspapers, census, interviews, and researcher contributions were used to assemble the more than 11,886 entries. Each entry in the database has the source noted.

Thanks to Karen and all the volunteers for making this outstanding resource available to Colorado researchers.

Thanks to Valerie Eichler Lair-Smith for passing on this information. Valerie is in the final phase of preparing updated burial listings for Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs. The Tombstone Transcription Project currently has Evergreen’s listings for 1856 to 1995, and 2001. When complete, the listings from 1996 to 2008 will be included. If you would like to help, contact Valerie at <valsroots @yahoo.com>.

Some highlights from this issue are:

• New Archive Finding Aids (4 collections: David F. Barry Papers, Mary Murphy Gold Mining Records, Robert Leaman Brown Papers, Ralph G. Norvell collection)
• Hidden Treasures (17 boxes of menus arranged by city and town, as early as 1875; Tom Currigan papers)
• Archives and Photo Donations (5 collections)
• Western History Donations (12 items)
• Conservation Collection Donations (3 items)
• 10th Mountain Division Donations (9 items

The newsletter also has links to past issues and numerous calendar events. If you haven’t looked at this newsletter lately, you’ll be impressed by its expansion. You can receive the newsletter by e-mail by clicking on the “Sign up now” link near the top of the newsletter.