Rivers of Wonder Speakers

Friday

Dave Sprau

Sprau is a retired railroad employee with deep knowledge of Northern Pacific and Burlington Northern railroads and contributes regularly to the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive. He is on the board of directors for both the Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive and the Columbia County Museum Association.

Lee Van Duzer

Van Duzer has been the Law Librarian for Washington County, Oregon for eight years. He is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), the Western Pacific Chapter of AALL, and the Oregon Library Association.

Van Duzer's prior library experience includes six years with the U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, and two years as a Fellow at the University of Arizona Law Library. He earned his Master’s in Library Science at the University of Arizona, and his Juris Doctor at what is now the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law. Before exploring other parts of the country, he grew up in southern Oregon.

Saturday

Laurel Smith

Smith is past president of the Genealogical Forum of Oregon and currently heads the Genealogical Forum of Oregon’s Research Library while also directing and creating a members-only online collection of over 250,000 research materials.

Sunday

Tricia Oberndorf

Oberndorf is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, working in both the U.S. and Europe, primarily in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. She has researched her family history for over thirty years. She conducts on-site research throughout Oregon, and volunteers at the Columbia County [Oregon] Museum Association as library director, where she is also a member of the board of directors.

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