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Lecture 4 of 4 on FEEFHS

© copyright 1999 John Movius, all rights reserved
First Posted: 8 June 1999
Webmster's Note: This is the the text of the last lecture, (#4 of 4 parts), given on 6 June 1999 in the enhanced chat room of the ROOTS genealogy group of AOL by John Movius, FEEFHS Webmaster
To recap - The Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) was founded in June 1992 by a small dedicated group of American and Canadian genealogists with diverse ethnic, religious and national backgrounds. By the end of that year 11 societies had accepted its concept as founding members.

Each of the first three years FEEFHS has doubled in size. FEEFHS now represents over 170 organizations from 27 states, 5 western Canadian provinces and 14 countries. FEEFHS continues to grow each year.

About half of our organization members are genealogy societies. Others are multi-pupose societies, surname associations, book or periodical publishers, archives, libraries, family history centers, online services, institutions, eMail genealogy mailing lists or listservers, heraldry societies and other ethnic, religious and national groups and corporations.

FEEFHS includes societies organizations representing nearly every East and Central European group that has an existing genealogy society in North America, a growing number of Central and East European Societies and a growing group of world-wide organizations and individual members, from novices to professionals. This also includes Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland). We accept individual members and have members interested in most countries we cover.

Creating New Genealogy Organizations When None Exist

FEEFHS helps to create new ethnic or national genealogy societies where none exist but are needed. UNITY - HARMONY - DIVERSITY is our motto. We welcome and encourage cooperation among all societies, individuals, regardless of present or past strife in the homelands of Central and Eastern Europe.

We have helped create:
FEEFHS Member Services

FEEFHS communicates with its individual and organizational
members in many ways:

1) FEEFHS Quarterly Journal with cutting edge articles has been published each quarter since December 1992.

2) FEEFHS tables at major national, state / provincial and regional conferences - like the Pasadena Jamboree next weekend - look us up.

3) FEEFHS International Convention in North America, held most years since May 1994.

4) FEEFHS Resource Guide to East European Genealogy, (1994 / 1995) This has morphed into the FEEFHS Web Portal (WebSite).

5) FEEFHS pioneeer "HomePage" on the Internet's WWW (World Wide Web) 6) Regional North American conferences: Calgary (July 1995) was first.

7) International Conventions: The first planned at Regina, Saskatchewan in 2001.

8) Support of.
9) Referrals of non-member questions to appropriate FEEFHS member organizations.


FEEFHS Headquarters


FEEFHS headquarters is at Salt Lake City, a natural place for a genealogy Federation. Access to the world's largest genealogical repository and the associated genealogy infrastructure here is only part of the reason for this location.

FEEFHS is Nonsectarian

FEEFHS has no connection with the LDS Family History Library nor the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. We have members of most Cnetral amf East European religions and ethnic groups. FEEFHS deeply appeciates the LDS contribution to family history in collecting, filming and sharing genealogy records. We cooperate with them in genealogy where ever and when ever the opportunity presents itself.

Presently FEEFHS is seeking volunteers to create surname indexes of the major German "Die Ahnenstammkartei des Deutschen Volkes" collection on FHL microfilm and to create FEEFHS Finding Aids for the FEEFHS Saxony Court Record Project and other collections on FHL microfilm.

We can and will work with anyone interested in creating an online finding aid for any Central or East European microfilm, fiche or book. We seek to work in hamony with all national, ethnic and religious genealogy sources for web access.


FEEFHS Addresses

The permanent address of FEEFHS is P.O. Box 510898, Salt Lake City, Utah 84151-0898. Please send dues, address changes, membership questions, publication requests, back issue orders, etc. to this address. The FEEFHS Treasurer and Secretary receive this mail. It can be faster to send correspondence directly to our officers at other locations or to member societies at their postal address.


Membership and Dues

Minimum membership fee is US$25.00 for all membership applications and renewals; a minimum of US$50.00 for all commercial firms. Special provisions (free membership) exists for societies and non-commercial organizations in Eastern Europe which cannot afford to join.

FEEFHS greatly appreciates sponsors and patrons who contribute more than the minimum amount to help offset the expenses of its many services, including its Web Site operation and the cost of a faster Myron Grunwald Memorial Web Server.

All the founders, officers, appointed members and convention speakers serve without compensation. Thus they all contribute significantly toward FEEFHS goals. Please send your dues to our Salt Lake City address - P.O. Box 510898, Salt Lake City, Utah 84151-0898.