{"id":104157,"date":"2019-08-14T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/?p=104157"},"modified":"2019-08-14T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T21:03:33","slug":"were-heading-to-fgs-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/were-heading-to-fgs-2019-104157.html","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Heading to FGS 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week Geni is heading to Washington, D.C. for the <a href=\"https:\/\/fgs.org\/annual-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\">Federation of Genealogical Societies 2019 Family History Conference<\/a>. The conference will take place August 21-24 at the historic Omni Shoreham Hotel. Fun fact:\u00a0the hotel\u00a0was the site of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/people\/Franklin-D-Roosevelt-32nd-President-of-the-USA\/6000000013608925106\" target=\"_blank\">Franklin D. Roosevelt&#8217;s<\/a> first Inaugural Ball\u00a0in 1933.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fgs.org\/annual-conference\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-104158 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FGS2019.jpg\" alt=\"FGS2019\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FGS2019.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/FGS2019-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come visit Geni in the exhibit hall at booth #406 for your chance to talk with members of the Geni team. If you have any questions or simply want to try out some of our premium features for free, we&#8217;ll be happy to walk you through them at the booth&#8217;s computers. We&#8217;ll also have an exclusive conference discount on Geni Pro available only at the booth that you\u00a0wont\u00a0want to miss!<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to also pick up\u00a0our handy Geni notebooks before these popular give-aways are all gone. They are very useful for quick notes during the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Librarians and society members are encouraged to stop by to ask us about our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/corp\/geni-public-access-program\/\" target=\"_blank\">Geni Public Access program<\/a>, which grants free access to Geni&#8217;s premium features to libraries and genealogical societies that offer\u00a0their patrons access to their facilities&#8217; public computers.<\/p>\n<p>Will you be at FGS 2019 in Washington, D.C.?\u00a0Come see us\u00a0and say hello!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week Geni is heading to Washington, D.C. for the Federation of Genealogical Societies 2019 Family History Conference. The conference will take place August 21-24 at the historic Omni Shoreham Hotel. Fun fact:\u00a0the hotel\u00a0was the site of Franklin D. Roosevelt&#8217;s first Inaugural Ball\u00a0in 1933. Come visit Geni in the exhibit hall at booth #406 for your chance to talk with members of the Geni team. If you have any questions or simply want to try&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/were-heading-to-fgs-2019-104157.html\"><span>Read the full story<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":104159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[3671,1941],"class_list":["post-104157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-fgs","tag-genealogy-conference"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104157"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104175,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104157\/revisions\/104175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.geni.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}