Just four-plus days left (through July 1, 2014) to get early-bird discount registration fees for #FG

Just four-plus days left (through July 1, 2014) to get early-bird discount registration fees for #FGS2014, princess cruises sailings the Federation of Genealogical Societies conference being held in San Antonio, Texas, August 27-30! If you are still looking for a hotel, and don't mind being a little further from the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, you might want to consider the historic Menger Hotel , next door to the Alamo .
The historical princess cruises sailings marker pictured at left pretty much tells the story of the hotel. I took the pictures in this post on April 6, 2013, when I was at the hotel to make a presentation on blogging and family history for the International Society of Educational Biography conference. I also picked up a self-guided tour brochure at the front desk with some of the other facts presented in the captions to the photos. What I didn't get to see, but described in the brochure, was a network of tunnels under the building that once held wine cellars, meat lockers, and led to Menger's adjacent brewery.