Dianne Fedderson & Steven Buhrow, coordinators

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012317351?pwd=VWIrZnorOGt2b3lTTTBWRXBpZW9QQT09

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 & Laurie Sarauer, coordinators

 

Presenters Bio: Pat Adams is currently serving her second term as president of the VGS. Prior to that, she served as vice president and program chair for five years.  She recently completed “Tools & Strategies for Tackling Tough Research Problems” through the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP) and “Intermediate Genealogy and Historical Studies” through the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) in Georgia. Her future educational plans include taking an advanced methodology course in 2021. In addition to the VGS, Pat is also a member of several local, state and national genealogical societies including The Chicago Genealogical Society, The Florida State and Illinois State Genealogical Societies, The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History and The National Genealogical Society. Researching her Scottish and Irish Cunningham line has been an ongoing project for the last 20 years. She has recently learned that Canada will now be added to her list of places to seek out additional Cunningham connections as the story continues and the skeletons come out of the closet.

 

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

Nancy Schultz and Sharol Lewin, Coordinators

 

Carol LaSalle, Coordinator

Dianne Fedderson & Steven Buhrow, coordinators

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012317351?pwd=VWIrZnorOGt2b3lTTTBWRXBpZW9QQT09

 

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

 

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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.

 

 

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Christine Courtwright, coordinator

Larry Peterson, coordinator

 

Annette Burke Lyttle, Dona Black & Laurie Sarauer, coordinators

Nancy Heydt, coordinator

 

Gene Clark, coordinator

Carol Myers & Marie Musialek, coordinators

 

Pat Adams & Phyllis Sample, Coordinators

Herb Siegel, Coordinator

Phil Goldsmith, Programs
Topic: TBD

Anne Berg & Marcella Zorn, Co-cordinators

 

Dianne Fedderson & Steven Buhrow, coordinators

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85012317351?pwd=VWIrZnorOGt2b3lTTTBWRXBpZW9QQT09

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.

Nancy Schultz and Sharol Lewin, Coordinators

 

Tom Voyles, coordinator

 

Carol LaSalle, Coordinator

Christine Courtwright, coordinator

Larry Peterson, coordinator

 

John DeAngelo, Co-Coordinator

Karen Pickelsimer, Coordinator.

Gene Clark, coordinator

Annette Burke Lyttle, Dona Black & Laurie Sarauer, coordinators

Nancy Heydt, coordinator

 

Guest Speaker: Luana Darby, AG

Description: With many state archives and local libraries posting one-of-a-kind information that many times has never been seen outside of that institution, the wealth of information available to genealogists is incredible. From actual records to photographs these digital collections will enrich your genealogical experience and may offer that breakthrough you are looking for!

 

Presenter's Bio: Genealogy and the recording of family history has always been a passion for Luana. She began organizing photos, documents, and information on her grandmother’s family in 1977 and has researched for others since 1985, working as a professional genealogist since 1995. She specializes in Palatine German, US and Canadian, and western European research She frequently travels to Europe for genealogical research on site in archives located in Germany, Poland and France.
Luana has a bachelor’s degree in Family History from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. In addition to her education at BYU and SJSU, Luana is an Accredited Genealogist® and has completed several in-depth tracks of study at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) which cover Advanced Genealogical Methods, Research in German Speaking Areas, Problem Solving in the Midwest, American Records and Research, Computers and Technology in Genealogy, Advanced Methodologies – Land Records, Forensic Genealogy and Genetic Genealogy.
She is a frequent lecturer at local and national conferences and institutes, including the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the British Institute, RootsTech and through Legacy Family Tree Webinars. In January 2015, she joined the faculty of BYU-Idaho as an online family history instructor teaching genealogical analysis and genealogy as a business courses.

 

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Guest Speaker: Luana Darby, AG

Description: Have you ever wondered about how librarians can sometimes find things faster and more efficiently when searching on the Internet? Learn ‘how” to search Google, FamilySearch, and Ancestry like a pro to get what you need, as well as other key genealogy websites. Archives, manuscripts, libraries, and their associated finding aids will be discussed and may provide answers you cannot find elsewhere.
 

Presenter's Bio: Genealogy and the recording of family history has always been a passion for Luana. She began organizing photos, documents, and information on her grandmother’s family in 1977 and has researched for others since 1985, working as a professional genealogist since 1995. She specializes in Palatine German, US and Canadian, and western European research She frequently travels to Europe for genealogical research on site in archives located in Germany, Poland and France.
Luana has a bachelor’s degree in Family History from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San Jose State University. In addition to her education at BYU and SJSU, Luana is an Accredited Genealogist® and has completed several in-depth tracks of study at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) which cover Advanced Genealogical Methods, Research in German Speaking Areas, Problem Solving in the Midwest, American Records and Research, Computers and Technology in Genealogy, Advanced Methodologies – Land Records, Forensic Genealogy and Genetic Genealogy.
She is a frequent lecturer at local and national conferences and institutes, including the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the British Institute, RootsTech and through Legacy Family Tree Webinars. In January 2015, she joined the faculty of BYU-Idaho as an online family history instructor teaching genealogical analysis and genealogy as a business courses.

 

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