Serving family historians researching the Michigan communities of Dearborn, Dearborn Township, and Dearborn Heights, since 1966
Bring Out Your Dead, Plagues, Epidemics, and Pandemics The program discusses epidemics from the 1200s to the present and where to find unusual data records about the epidemics and records of people that succumbed to them.
This session looks at this popular migration pattern and explores resources available to researchers studying families who travelled these routes. Guests are welcome. Register to attend
German Genealogical Research with Daniel FantoreDan Fantore’s Introduction to German Genealogical Research explores German immigration to the United States. Research with US resources comes first to identify the German nation or town of origin. German ports and immigration from Germany will be presented. The role of civil and church records will be discussed as well ... Read more
FamilySearch is a site that should be on every genealogist’s list of websites for genealogy research. With all the wonders that await you, the best is that it is all free. We will learn about all the amazing databases, learning tools, and family trees, to name just a few. After this class, I believe you ... Read more
This session will cover the tools available to you to search by location: State, County, City or Township, and Enumeration District to locate your family before searching is available. Tom's presentation will also discuss how you and other volunteers can help ensure this census is searchable by researchers. The process is reportedly different than the ... Read more
Ancestry.com is one of the largest genealogy databases on the internet today, and they have the advertising dollars to make themselves known. However, there are many, many other online resources (most of them free) that can supplement the information you have on your family and fill in the missing puzzle pieces. We’ll talk about census ... Read more
Family history storytellers can borrow techniques which make stories more compelling, more easily digestible, more emotionally impactful, by borrowing concepts of photography. Using nature photography photos as examples, presenter Laura Hedgecock shares strategies that help personal and family stories to connect with readers and future generations.