Friday’s Five at Five for April 20, 2018
Five links: It’s Friday and tomorrow starts the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Nearly a decade ago I attended my first Festival of Books and came across a tent for the Southern California Genealogical Society. Genealogical society? I’d been alone in my fascination of searching for my ancestors. They were promoting their Jamboree. Jamboree?! […]
What I’m Bringing to Jamboree (2018)
*This post was originally written in 2012. I’ve updated some information and links. I’m going to use the last two eight years’ experience at Jamboree to prepare for this coming Friday and Saturday. I’m going to dress comfortably as there’s a lot of sitting and a lot of speed walking to the next excitement. I’ll bring: […]
Jamboree Exhibitors
The exhibitors at Jamboree often offer discounted prices on memberships, computer programs, books, etc. I’ve held off buying some books knowing I might find them at a lower price at Jamboree. I’ve looked up the prices online and added them to Evernote. While I’m at Jamboree, I can compare the prices to those I save […]
Jamboree 2012
I am more than just a little excited for Jamboree coming up in Burbank, California June 7th-June 10th. This will be my third year going. Funny, but for the 2010 Jamboree I only signed up for the half day Friday…because I wasn’t sure I was going enjoy it. Plus it was my birthday weekend. Could […]
Southern California Genealogical Jamboree
This will be my second year at the Jamboree. Last year I only went on Friday because I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough fun on my birthday weekend. I learned my lesson and will be there for the whole weekend this time around. Although I’ve been doing my genealogy for ten years I […]