April Meeting: MyHeritage Records Collection with Daniel Horowitz

Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church - Fellowship Hall 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, FL

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

Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church - Fellowship Hall 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, FL

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 […]

June Meeting: Legacy 9.0 Software with Geoff Rasmussen

Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church - Fellowship Hall 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, FL

Join us along with guest speaker Geoff Rasmussen who will be giving us an overview of Legacy 9.0 software. The benefits of using the software for your genealogy and new features that have been rolled out. Geoff will be available to answer all of your questions. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqf-GtqT8vG9Fp1EddUQmAC3C8j2k20imR  

August Meeting: Ancestry Thrulines with Julia McIntyre

Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church - Fellowship Hall 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, FL

August Meeting: Ancestry Thrulines with Julia McIntyre   https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkd-CrrzwuG919qQflie-NTecqbr6kmuPK

September Meeting: WikiTree’s DNA Features with Mags Gaulden

Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church - Fellowship Hall 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, FL

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 within WikiTree’s honor code to merge duplicate ancestor profiles, improving profiles for accuracy with sources, with stories and with DNA.

October Meeting: Technology to the Rescue: Tools Every Genealogist Needs in Their Tool Box with Linda Debe

Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church - Fellowship Hall 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, FL

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

Cypress Lake Presbyterian Church - Fellowship Hall 8260 Cypress Lake Drive, Fort Myers, FL

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. https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtcuirqzkrGdI9la2Vtz_WEwfdzZxlXnq_