The Bucket List Geneameme - Laura's contribution

I was thrilled when I opened my email this mroning and found that someone had taken up my offer to post responses to this lates meme.

Thanks for your contribution, Laura Cosgrove Lorenzana Consulting Archivist/Genealogist

Blog:  http://thelastleafonthisbranch.blogspot.com/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lauracosgrovelorenzana

The Bucket List GeneaMeme

The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you would like to do or find: Bold Type
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
You are encouraged to add extra comments after each item 

1. The genealogy conference I would most like to attend is...NGS in Cincinnati 2012
2. The genealogy speaker I would most like to hear and see is...Judy G. Russell 
3. The geneablogger I would most like to meet in person is...Caroline Pointer
4. The genealogy writer I would most like to have dinner with is...Elizabeth Shown Mills
5. The genealogy lecture I would most like to present is....An Archivist's Notebook For Preserving Your Family's History: a look at Archiving, Preservation, Conservation and Estate Planning for Genealogists
6. I would like to go on a genealogy cruise that visits....New Orleans to Brazil...want to retrace some of my ancestors possible route
7. The photo I would most like to find is...of Randolph Richards and Laura Louisa Greene Richards (he's my brick wall and I'm named after her)
8. The repository in a foreign land I would most like to visit is...a toss up between Het Utrecht Archief and local repositories in/near Saarguemines, Alsace-Lorraine, France
9. The place of worship I would most like to visit is...the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey
10. The cemetery I would most like to visit is ......where my ancestors are buried in France/Germany (unknown location as of 1/25/2012)
11. The ancestral town or village I would most like to visit is......Saarguemines and/or Bliesbruck in Alsace Lorraine Moselle France
12. The brick wall I most want to smash is...my Brazil connection...proof of when they left and how they got to the US
13. The piece of software I most want to buy is....
14. The tech toy I want to purchase next is .....a 4G phone
15. The expensive book I would most like to buy is...
16. The library I would most want to visit is...the Library of Congress
17. The genealogy related book I would most like to write is....tells the story of my Wersel family 
18. The genealogy blog I would most like to start would be about....(I already did!) About my genealogical journey
19. The journal article I would most like to write would be about...
20. The ancestor I most want to meet in the afterlife is....Nicolaas Jan Francois Wersel