Genealogy Workshop: Clustering – What’s Next? with Peggy Jude. So you’ve done Clustering, and you have your Clusters…now what? Tips and techniques to work with your clusters to take your research to the next level. This concludes this three part series. Webinar Only To register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcemgrTIoE9a67oAO2U7XMwj_l83FE8nM
Bruce Buzbee presents Roots Magic. Learn the basics about the latest version of RootsMagic software. Get a brief overview of the program interface, plus a look at some of the most intriguing new features. To attend virtually, please register at: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpcemvqzMiGNDyBSHkeexqpigBYEnsFMkp
Join us for a Genealogy Workshop: Irish Famine Orphan Scheme with Bryan Mulcahy. Come and hear about one of the greatest schemes of all time after the Irish potato famine, many orphan girls were shipped off to Australia to find husbands, settle down and make a new life for themselves. Not all were so lucky though. Webinar Only
April Meeting: MyHeritage Records Collection with Daniel Horowitz. With billions of records at your disposal, where do you even begin? The MyHeritage Search Engine is a state-of-the-art tool that can help you search for information about your relatives online. In a matter of seconds, it can search across billions of historical records to pinpoint the ones most relevant to your research. Its advanced algorithms can identify spelling and phonetic variations, understand nicknames, and handle synonyms and ethnic variations. Daniel will show you how to use the MyHeritage Search Engine to find information about your relatives quickly and efficiently.
May Meeting: DNA Painter's Tools: Shared cM Project, What are the odds? And Chromosome Mapping with Mary Eberle DNA Painter has tools for researching your DNA matches. We’ll cover their three most important tools. The Shared cM Project tool helps determine possible relationships to your DNA matches, along with those relationships’ probabilities. The What Are the […]
Join us along with guest speaker, Geoff Rasmussen who will be giving us an overview of Legacy 9.0 software. You will hear the benefits of using the software for your genealogy and the new features that have been rolled out. Geoff will also be answering all of your questions. GIVEAWAYS - TWO Lucky LCGS Members will […]
July Meeting: Unusual Source Records for Genealogical Research with Sue Kaufman. Program overview: Some of the more interesting bits of researching our families are the stories that we hear and the stories that we discover. Through the documents, it is often us, the researcher, who weaves those stories from the names, dates, places from those […]
August Meeting: Ancestry ThruLines: Maximize your Ancestry DNA Results with Patti Smith ~ Understanding how to effectively use ThruLines can help individuals avoid common pitfalls such as the temptation of gathering unverified relatives to grow their family tree, contaminating the Ancestry database with unnecessary and incorrect data, and trusting the accuracy of the family tree […]
Uncover Your Family’s Story Using the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) presented by Elizabeth Hodges MA, MSLIS who is with the Allen County Public Library. PERSI was recently made free to the public, the Periodical Source Index (PERSI) is the premier subject index for genealogy and local history periodicals, and is produced by the staff of […]
September Meeting: WikiTree’s DNA Features with Mags Gaulden. What would happen if there was only one single family tree – in the world? We would all be able to find our ancestors and only have to look once. WikiTree is that; a single, global, family tree. It’s powered by close to 900,000 volunteers all working collaboratively […]
Technology to the Rescue: Tools Every Genealogist Needs in Their Tool Box with Linda Debe. Attendees will learn how to work smarter, not harder with free tools from programs to extensions, to built-in features from their operating system. These tools help with organization, research, writing, and plotting land deeds, as well as abstracting, extracting, and transcribing records. There is something for everyone, and who doesn’t love FREE?!?!
November Meeting: Facebook as a Tool to Break Thru Brick Walls with Drew Smith. Learn to use Facebook successfully to find living relatives or to share your questions, problems, and brick walls with other genealogists. Speaker will be remote. To attend this program virtually, use the following link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtcuirqzkrGdI9la2Vtz_WEwfdzZxlXnq_ Handout for this meeting […]