Festivals

Another great avenue to use in your research is locally and/or nationally held festivals.  The place to go to find out about dates, times and events is your local Chamber of Commerce.  They will have any and all the information you need about local festivals.  Usually, while at the local festivals you can catch wind of upcoming national festivals.  
 
The festivals are also an excellent place to make new connections with others who are also doing genealogy research.  The more people you have to work with the more information you will find!  Who knows, you may even meet a relative you didn't know that you had! 
 
I do know of one festival that is held every second weekend in June and that is the Cesky Den Festival in Hillsboro, WI.  This festival is a 100% Bohemian/Czech festival, full of good ol' Bohemian food, music, dancing and for those who still speak the old language, Bohemian story telling.  I unfortunately have never been able to attend the festival due to work scheduling conflicts, but I plan on being there next June!  My father has gone and he was amazed and astonished at everything the festival had to offer--and low and behold, he did get to meet a relative that we didn't know about!  The Cesky Den Festival has a website and I have it listed here www.ceskyden.com.--be sure to go and czech it out! (Sorry for the pun--I couldn't resist!)
 
Remember, each avenue provides you opportunities to find out more about your family and your culture--take advantage of them whenever you can because you don't know when they will disappear.