So, how was your first day of Virtual Jamboree 2010?

I have to admit, mine was distracted by the 60,000 bits of life that always seem to happen. Kids needed chaperoning on field trip, running out at last minute to get present for tonight’s birthday party, meeting for work opportunity that feel into my lap…you get the idea.

On my schedule, I highlighted five sessions of particular interest:

  • William Dollarhide: William Dollarhide’s Five Rules: Essentials for Successful Genealogical Research
  • Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak: Cases that Made My Brain Hurt
  • Michael John Neill: Re-Stacking the Blocks: Organizing Your Information
  • Lisa Louise Cooke: What You Must Know To Save Your Research From Descruction
  • DearMYRTLE: The Time Machine: Offbeat Resources for Family Historians

I’m thinking this is not a morning bunch of tweeters attending  as there wasn’t much until Lisa Cooke’s talk.

A. C. Ivory (@findmyancestor) did a great job tweeting from Lisa Cooke’s talk including this ‘gem’ pictured somewhere near here, hopefully after, depending on your browser (pun not intended, but it insisted on being present nonetheless).

Adam Hansen (@mradamhansen) tweeted from Lisa’s talk also, so very nice coverage there.

Another well-tweeted session was Lisa’s “Solving Family Tree Mysteries with Google Earth”. I wouldn’t have thought to highlight this one, but will be checking out the link in useful tweet below (hopefully).

Also look for tweets from Amy Coffin (@acoffin) from this session. I’m thinking I need to spend some more quality time on the genealogygems site…

I’ll have to be keeping an eye on the blogs to see if my other interests were covered. In addition to my trusty Google Homepage, one spot I’ll be watching is the Geneabloggers special section: The Latest Jamboree News.

So, what’s coming up for tomorrow?

The biggest one that has caught my eye is John T. Humphrey’s “Pennsylvania’s Land Records: An Indispensable Resource for Genealogists”. Anyone planning to attend that session and tweet it?

Corrections/Additions

Most used twitter hashtag is #scgs10 (and used by SCGS), but there are a few #scgs2010 out there so you might cast a glance to that one once and a while.

Link to Flicker group in last post was wrong, should be here (but not seeing any pics yet).

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