How to Date Your Historic House/Building with Tyler Moll

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Architectural historian Tyler Moll will present techniques to use when trying to figure out how old your house or building is. This includes using stylistic evidence, deeds, tax records, maps, and many other available resources to try and nail down a date. Attendees will learn all the places to look and how fun and interesting ... Read more

Acadian & French-Canadian Genealogy with Judy Nimer-Muhn

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Acadian and French Canadian Genealogy: The European settlement of what became Canada began in 1604, with explorations into the region dating back to the 13th century. From her extensive experience in researching the founding families of Canada, Judy will share in this workshop information about online research resources, key social media help areas, and the ... Read more

ABCs of DNA & Genealogy: Layman’s Approach to DNA Testing with Jessica Trotter

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What can DNA testing tell you? What tests should I take? What does it all mean? DNA testing can be a powerful tool to wield in your genealogy toolkit. This session offers a beginner’s overview on tests, testing companies, and how you can use your results.

Evaluating Genealogical Evidence with Dan Fantore

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Evaluating Genealogical Evidence with Dan Fantore Evaluating Genealogical Evidence explores the value of the evidence that genealogical researchers uncover. Genealogical standards of evidence will be discussed. The agreement of genealogical sources is explored as well as the importance of conflicts in evidence. The importance of evaluating the strength of evidence is stressed when there are ... Read more

Introduction to Ukrainian Genealogy with Alexander Tolksdorf

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Introduction to Ukrainian Genealogy: According to 2019 U.S. Census Estimates, over one million people of full or partial Ukrainian descent live in the United States. Statistics Canada in 2016 estimated over 1.3 million people of full or partial Ukrainian descent living in Canada. Immigrating in four distinct waves over the past 130 years or so, ... Read more

The Potato Famine & The Coming of the Irish to America with Terence O’Leary

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The Potato Famine & The Coming of the Irish to America with Terence O’Leary Ireland awoke to the beginning of the Great Hunger in 1845. Experience the heartbreaking stories of the Irish during the 5 long years of the Potato Famine. While it was a time of great injustice when more than 1 million Irish ... Read more

Where are the Early Dead of Detroit? with Derek J Blount

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Where are the Early Dead of Detroit? with Derek J Blount A review of the early cemeteries of Detroit and what happened to them, and the people buried there. A discussion of where to find death records for the early days.

Budapest: Pearl of the Danube with Mariya Fogarasi

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Hungary's capital city has long been acclaimed as one of Europe's most beautiful, with its parliament building frequently highlighted in advertisements for Danube river cruises. Come and travel through one of the Roman empire's northern provinces and experience the spas, bridges, markets, and historical areas of "Buda" and "Pest," two cities which, along with Obuda, ... Read more

Creative Storytelling Techniques Borrowed from Photography with Laura Hedgecock

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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.

Beyond Ancestry.com: Searching for your ancestors online with Claudia Breland

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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

Finding Family in the 1950 US Census Before it is Searchable with Thomas Koselka

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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

The joys and wonders of using FamilySearch with Cynthia Grostick

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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