Our guest speaker will be: Melinda Daffin Henningfield, CG  Description: This class is not about grammar, or the mechanics of writing. It’s about writing in a way that is readily understood, interesting and factual. You will learn five important steps to follow as you write and document your genealogy research, ensuring a quality, accurate, report, one that can be kept as your family’s private document, or that can be used for publication.   Presenters Bio:  Melinda Daffin Henningfield, CG®, is a professional genealogist, lecturer, and author. Her educational background includes a BA in History Education, a BS and an MS in Nursing, and a certificate as a Nurse Practitioner. She belongs to the National Genealogical Society, the Association of Professional Genealogists, and many regional, state, and local genealogical societies. She specializes in solving complex genealogical problems involving DNA, separating and identifying individuals with common names, as well as migration, and immigration. She has written articles published in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, OnBoard, Crossroads, and other genealogical publications. A native of Florida, she has deep southern roots on her mother's side and northeastern and southern ancestry on her father's side..   Please register for the webinar at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/511879143025381388 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Dianne Fedderson & Steven Buhrow, coordinators

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John DeAngelo, Co-Coordinator

Registration: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3949531935895010574
 

Annette Burke Lyttle & Dona Black, coordinators (both away for this meeting)

Herb Siegel, Coordinator

Phil Goldsmith, Programs

Val Harris Co-Ordinator

Anne Berg & Marcella Zorn, Co-cordinators

Carol Myers & Marie Musialek, coordinators

Dianne Fedderson & Steven Buhrow, coordinators

 

Sherry Bean and Diann LaRosa, coordinators

Our guest speaker will be: Elizabeth O'Neal

Description: Have you been doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results? Then it’s time for you to think “outside the box!”  
This presentation will feature a variety of tips and strategies for thinking creatively about your genealogy research.

John DeAngelo, Co-Coordinator

 

Annette Burke Lyttle & Dona Black, coordinators

Anne Berg & Marcella Zorn, Co-cordinators

More than 30 years after the last FGS conference held in Kansas City, FGS returns to the home of the Mid-Continent Library.

Carol Myers & Marie Musialek, coordinators

 

Herb Siegel, Coordinator

Phil Goldsmith, Programs

Val Harris Co-Ordinator

Tom Sodeman and Nancy Schultz , Coordinators

 

Carol LaSalle, Coordinator

Dianne Fedderson & Steven Buhrow, coordinators

 

Sherry Bean and Diann LaRosa, coordinators

Carol LaSalle, Coordinator

Our guest speaker will be: Ari Wilkins

Description: Recreating neighborhoods can provide rich and insightful details about an ancestor’s life and surroundings. This lecture will demonstrate ways to build a map using Sanborn Fire insurance maps, census records, and city directories in Google Maps.

John DeAngelo, Co-Coordinator

Karen Pickelsimer, Coordinator.

Description: Have you been documenting your own story during this time of the Covid pandemic? Do you need some tips on doing this? Do you need ideas on what to preserve and how to do it? What do you want to exist in the future to tell people about your experience of dealing with and memories of living through this pandemic? The ideas include those for adults, children, and even about your pets. Your experience may have included online family get-togethers, social media, signs in the window, journaling, blogging, photographs, parents learning new math, working from home, working on the front lines, and other things from daily life. We need to preserve with an eye towards what will be saved and will endure, versus not valued and tossed away. Comments from historical societies, archives, and other institution about preservation will be shared. The presentation and accompanying handout provide all this and more.

 

Presenter's Bio: Paula Stuart-Warren is a genealogical and historical researcher, lecturer, and coach based in Minnesota but research has taken her to locations and repositories across the U.S. She has done presentations in the U.S., Canada, and on the ocean. Her specialties include unusual records, analysis, research planning, problem-solving, manuscript and archival repositories, railroads, and Native American genealogy. She is a course coordinator and instructor at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, and a former board member of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the Association of Professional Genealogists, and MGS. Paula loves audience questions after each presentation.

 

 

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Description: Not all of our ancestors belonged to an organized religion. For those who did, the records which have survived until today can often be helpful to genealogists. Names, dates, relationships, places of new and former residences, burial location, and other details may be learned. With some background knowledge of your family, and of the area in which they lived, it may be possible to find church records for your ancestor. Church related records are important for ancestors and siblings who were involved in the ministry. Often a biography or specialized obituary can be found for these individuals. For ancestors who resided in the New England and Middle Atlantic states, the religious resources are especially rich. Churches related to specific ethnic groups may give us clues to the old country. More and more southern church records are surfacing and serve to replace many burned civil records. Church records may predate the civil recordings of births, deaths, and marriages.

 

Presenter's Bio: Paula Stuart-Warren is a genealogical and historical researcher, lecturer, and coach based in Minnesota but research has taken her to locations and repositories across the U.S. She has done presentations in the U.S., Canada, and on the ocean. Her specialties include unusual records, analysis, research planning, problem-solving, manuscript and archival repositories, railroads, and Native American genealogy. She is a course coordinator and instructor at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, and a former board member of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the Association of Professional Genealogists, and MGS. Paula loves audience questions after each presentation.

 

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Christine Courtwright, coordinator

Larry Peterson, coordinator

 

Annette Burke Lyttle & Dona Black, coordinators

Nancy Heydt, coordinator

 

Gene Clark, coordinator

Carol Myers & Marie Musialek, coordinators

 

Pat Adams & Phyllis Sample, Coordinators

Herb Siegel, Coordinator

Phil Goldsmith, Programs

Val Harris Co-Ordinator

Anne Berg & Marcella Zorn, Co-cordinators

 

Dianne Fedderson & Steven Buhrow, coordinators

 

Sherry Bean and Diann LaRosa, coordinators

Carol LaSalle, Coordinator

Our guest speaker will be: Diane L Richard, Mosaic 

Description: Running out of places to look for information about your ancestors? Private and little known archival collections are full of ledgers and account books, membership lists, and so much more! Have you explored these? You can learn so much about your family and the neighborhood through these records. Relationships are sometimes noted. Store, post office, business, hospital, physician ledgers and more can link family members and provide many interesting details invaluable to your family history narrative. Using Archivegrid as a resource will also be discussed.