FGS Radio - TechSoup.org: Technology by the Bowlful for Non-Profits

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Saturday, September 14, 2011
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Join us for the next episode of FGS Radio - My Society, an Internet radio show on Blog talk Radio presented by the Federation of Genealogical Societies. This week’s episode hosted by Thomas MacEntee is entitled TechSoup.org - Technology by the Bowlful for Non-Profits. Our special guest will be Ricci Powers, National Accounts Manager at TechSoup.Org. Ricci will explain how TechSoup.org works and how your non-profit society can reap the benefits of this amazing technology program. And we’ll be highlighting the The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania in our weekly Society Spotlight feature.

Guest: Ricci Powers

Ricci Powers is National Accounts Manager at TechSoup.org. TechSoup has enabled nonprofits to save more than $2.6 billion in IT expenses since 2001. TechSoup.org is itself a 501(c)(3) nonprofit making 430 different product donations exclusively to other nonprofits and libraries from over from 45 donating partners (including Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec and Adobe) for an administrative fee which is usually 5% of retail cost. To qualify, organizations must be a 501(c)(3) nonprofit or a library.


Links

• TechSoup.org
  http://www.techsoup.org

• How to Use TechSoup
  http://www.slideshare.net/TechSoupGlobal/how-to-use-techsoup-7709196

Society Spotlight

This week's Society Spotlight features The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GPS).

Founded in 1892 as a non-profit organization, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP) was among the first in the United States to recognize the value of collecting and preserving the vital and personal records of those ancestors whose lives now comprise our American History. GSP is committed to preserving and publishing heretofore unpublished primary sources. The continuing dedication to this service enables the Society to make an increasingly significant contribution to the cultural life of our city, state, and indeed the whole country.

Concentrating primarily in Pennsylvania and its adjoining states, but also including immigration into and out of Pennsylvania, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania has research materials available to members through the Genealogical Collection at the historic Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP), accumulated by GSP and HSP and maintained in HSP's Library. Included are wills, deeds, census and tax lists, church registers, funeral, cemetery, and family Bible records, family papers and correspondence, as well as published genealogies, town and county histories, and periodicals. Comprehensive card catalogs in HSP's library at 1300 Locust Street provide an index by surname or locale for most of the collections. Much of GSP’s collections are itemized in the HSP online catalog.

A loyal corps of volunteers are collating and indexing church, cemetery, and other records, and are extracting genealogically important items from the Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 1834 - 1870.The volumes resulting from this work are placed in the collections and distributed to other research institutions.

Each year, the Society conducts conferences, alone or in conjunction with other societies, offering lectures for all levels of research. Lectures and/or field trips conducted by outstanding genealogists are sponsored by the Program Committee.

Links

• The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
  http://www.genpa.org

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