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The German Citizen
The German Citizen
A NEWSPAPER SERVING THE GERMAN-AMERICANS OF UPSTATE NEW YORK
AUSTRIA • GERMANY • LIECHTENSTEIN • SWITZERLAND
Vol. 12 No. 2 March - April 2024 Issue
Palatines to America Conference
focuses on German Genealogy
egistration is now open for
the 2024 Palatines to Amer‐
Rica National Conference in
Albany, NY. The national confer‐
ence will be held over four days,
June 6 through 9 packed with Ger‐
man genealogy lectures.
Featured speakers include:
Jon Marie Pearson, The Simple
Living Genealogist @simpleliv‐
inggene; Daniel Horowitz, geneal‐
GAMA installs officers, honors ogy expert, My Heritage; James M.
Glaub, Smith, McEvoy, Wilke Beidler, executive director, Ge‐
nealogical Society of Pennsylvania;
he annual Installation Dinner for the German-American Musicians William P. Tatum III, Dutchess
Association, Inc. was held on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024 at the Town Line County Historian @dutchesshis‐
TLutheran Church in Alden. The board of directors for 2024, from tory; and Philip Otterness, Ph.D.,
left to right, are: Clara Conrad (Trustee), Julie Miszuk (President), Josh emeritus professor of history, War‐
Wayman, (Sergeant at Arms), Kevin Zeis (Vice President), Ginny Zeis ren Wilson College.
(Secretary), Bob Lindstrom (Treasurer), Catherine Glaub (Trustee), Mike The daily schedule is:
Thursday, June 6
Brock (Trustee) and missing from the photo Andrew Sigurdson (Trustee).
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Research
For 2024, the business manager is Sarah Hamm-Johnson; the music
day at NYS Library.
director is Tim Lyon and the assistant music director is Jeff Glaub.
3:30 to 5:45 p.m. - Ancestral
The association presented Jeff Glaub with the Leroy Schlebus Most
Narratives in Motion: Creating
Valuable Participant Award, which is an award given to an individual who Friday, June 7 Daniel Horowitz - Finding the
Reels and TikToks for Genealogy
had done the most for the Association in 2023. Will Tatum - Wurtemberg set‐ Places Your Relatives Arrived.
and Cultivating Your Genealogy
The Robert and Anna Ping Golden Boot Award was presented to Gregg tlement in Rhinebeck, NY. Lunch
World: Growing a Personal Com‐
Smith for his best spirit of the group in 2023. Daniel Horowitz - Finding New Philip Otterness - Conversa‐
munity on Social Media by Jon
Lifetime memberships were awarded to Vern McEvoy, who has been in Marie Pearson. German Records in MyHeritage tional Q and A led by NY PalAm
the band for 50 years along with Dan Wilke, a long-time GAM enthusiast. Search Engine. President Tom Shannon.
Lunch Daniel Horowitz - Creating
Philip Otterness - Adventures in Beautiful Charts of Your Family
the Archives. Tree on MyHeritage.
Daniel Horowitz - Using Ad‐ Philip Otterness - Gone to Car‐
vanced DNA Tools to Understand olina: the New Bern Palatines.
Your Germanic DNA. Sunday, June 9
James Beidler - Palatine Re‐ Research Day at the Henry Z
sources in Pennsylvania Reposito‐ Jones Jr. Palatine Research Center,
ries. Germantown, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, June 8 There are variety of price op‐
James Beidler - Getting Best Use tions to make it easy to attend the
of Ancestry.com’s Hank Jones Data‐ whole conference or just one day.
base. Register at https://palam.org/
event-5505015.
German-Polish production is
hit at Chicago Puppet Festival
by Robert Fronckowiak This year’s Festival presented the
HICAGO: In the span of 11 play Krabat, a joint production
Cdays, dozens of Chicago venues between the Figurentheater Wilde
featured more than 100 puppetry & Vogel company from Germany
activities for the 6th edition of the and Grupa Coincidentia from
Chicago Puppet Festival which ran Poland. Grupa Coincidentia is
from Jan. 18 - 24, 2024. located in Bialystok, Poland and is
Since its inception in 2015 the the brain child of Pawel Chomczyk
Festival has included invited artists and his wife Dagmara Sowa.
from many nations including Iran, Both actors are familiar to
Korea, South Africa, Japan and Buffalo audiences having
Chile as well as Europe, Chicago performed their play Szopka at the
and across the United States with Lancaster Opera House. Pawel also
the goal of “promoting peace, showcased his talents as he operated
equality and justice on a global the marionette of Paderewski in the
scale.”
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