Many thanks to Norb Ziegler, Eric Taylor and Mara Pitkethly for the great treats!! Yum!

Eric Taylor now is the Heritage program coordinator for Seattle's 4Culture. Look up this organization: www.4culture.org Our group is covered by this section of 4Culture. Congratulations, Eric! Maybe he can help us find a venue for the Czech perfume bottle collection during the CGSI 2008 Symposium here. We are also looking for a place to display Czech and Slovak dolls! Eric encourages us to use the National Archives at Sand Point! If we don't use this facility, they could discontinue this service for us!!!!!!!!

Barb Callahan, Tom Harman and Eric Taylor both took successful research trips. Barb had lost some digital pictures on her Connecticut and NY trip , but was told those pictures could be "found" if other pictures had not covered that space yet. A place like Kits Camera could help with that. Tom Harman is excited about his research trip to Canada. Allan Peschek is pleased with the research Mirek Koudelka has done for him in the Czech Republic:http://www.czechfamily.com/ Allan also encourages Nebraska researchers to use the Nebraska Historical Society to find pictures. He did!! Norb Zielger is enthused about using Interlibrary loans to do research. Read what he has written about the June 14th EGS Interlibrary Loan program. The World Catalog Index on: http://www.worldcat.org/ is helpful, too.

Travel tidbit of the day is that you can find computers to use at public libraries, a chamber of commerce, and more and more visitor centers.

Mara is our culture person. She told us about the new homes being built in the CR. They are being built in " satellite vesnici "satellite villages". She also had some fiber art show and tell, a lovely blue print table cloth for rusky vejicka, like our deviled eggs, only the Czech version. Another yum to think about!!!

We discussed the CGSI Conference in Madison, WI Oct. 18 - 20, 2007 and the CGSI 2008 Symposium.

1. 2007 CGSI Madison Conference. As of June 9, 59 people have registered for the conference with 25 also having signed up for the Milwaukee tour. As we have a 29-passenger bus reserved, we have started reviewing options for expanding the tour if the interest continues.

The block of $99 studio suites we reserved at the Clarion Suites have all been taken. We now have also made arrangements with the Holiday Inn Express for a block of rooms at a rate of $99 per night. This hotel is about 1/3 of a mile from the Exhibition Hall. And we have also reserved a smaller block of rooms at the Sheraton Madison at a rate of $105 per night. The Sheraton is also located about 1/3 mile from the Exhibition Hall. The new blocks of rooms reserved are limited in number and available only through mid-September. Reserving larger blocks through the conference period would require CGSI to guarantee a percentage of the rooms (e.g. the Sheraton would require a 75% guarantee). However, both the Holiday Inn Express and the Sheraton have agreed to extend the rate if they have rooms at the time our currently reserved blocks are all taken."

2. Plans for the April 11- 12 2008 CGSI Symposium are being rapidly made!!! Here is a quick report!

2008 Symposium. Paul Makousky informs us that he has received a revised contract with no requirements for the number of rooms needed to book the LaQuinta Inn. For the meeting rooms there will not be a room charge but there will be a set-up fee with the fixed cost of $700. The traveling library will start Friday morning and again Saturday (if we want to do that Saturday morning). Standard room rates are $99 for single or double for 1-2 people and $10/ each of additional. One complimentary room will be received for every 30. There is discussion on what is standard with other hotels. The cut off date is March 24, 2008 for reservations. He will send a credit application to get direct billing.

The next issue of Nase Rodina will include Czechs and Slovaks in the Pacific Northwest. Rosie Bodien is working on Czechs in Seattle and Tacoma, doing legwork at history centers, former Slovak churches, etc. Richard M. Watts will provide a program for the symposium on Slovaks in Roslyn WA, a former coal mining community. He married into one of the early Slovak families in Roslyn named Bendzak.

NEXT MEETINGS, August 18, 9:30 to Noon! Then Oct. 27, 1 PM to 4:30. Nov.17 1 PM to 4:30 will be our Czechoslovak Thanksgiving celebration!

HAPPY RESEARCHING!!

ROSIE

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