Join us along with our speaker, Karen Fortin as she presents her program "Local & County History Books." Local and county histories are often overlooked resources that can contain a wealth of resources on your ancestors and the places that they lived. This presentation explores the background of local and county history books; what information can be […]
Saturday, July 27th – John Bifano – Live Presentation Meeting Rooms AB - Topic: Locating and Using Online Italian Civil and Church Records - Once an ancestor's town has been definitively identified, there are three major sources for locating records in that town: FamilySearch, Italian Parish Records, and Antenati. Italian Parish Records and Antenati are […]
Tuesday, August 13th – Eric Migdal – Virtual – Topic: Building and Understanding Family Trees - This workshop will discuss building and understanding family trees, including the differences of pedigree and family group trees, gathering accurate information, understanding, and analyzing relationships.
Saturday, February 8th - Ken Weaver – Using German Language American Newspapers - South Building Meeting Rooms - 10-12
Join us along with our speaker, Diana Elder who will be presenting her program "Jurisdiction Explained: Finding New Avenues of Research for Your Family." Exploring each level of record keeping for a locality can reveal additional records for a research subject. Learn about records on the town, city, county, state, regional, and federal levels and how […]
Summer Workshop: Writing Family Histories. Have fun while learning to write engaging biographies in a clear and concise style! Bring your favorite pen and some research on one or more ancestors to visualize what your successful end results will be. Then, turn dry facts into a compelling story and learn how the best writers do […]
You know them as monuments and myths, but in this session, we will get to know the Pilgrims as people! Understand their family ties, their jobs, their hopes, and their failures. Learn how our Pilgrim ancestors made gut-wrenching decisions while fleeing from England to Holland and finally to the New World where they survived to […]
Saturday, September 7th – Bryan Mulcahy – Virtual Only - Topic: Using U.S. Census Records – US Census records are a valuable tool in tracking your family history. Each census collected different information that is so helpful. Learn what types of information were collected, when, and how to best use this information to extend or […]
Our program speaker, Dustin Axe, will present virtually “Getting Started in Family History Education." It can be extremely rewarding for young students to learn about themselves and their family history, yet genealogy is a challenging subject to teach and learn. Hear Youth Genealogy Curriculum Coordinator Dustin Axe discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that […]
Join us along with our speaker, Curt Witcher when he presents his program "Making the Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, IN Your Research Assistant." The presentation will cover how to explore the holdings and datafiles of the Genealogy Center both to plan a research trip to Fort Wayne and, especially, to use the Genealogy Center […]
Genealogy is the same the world around, yet there are some unique challenges when researching African American family history. For example, specific strategies are required to identify and work with records before 1860 and locating identifiable names among government records can raise the difficulty level. Even though it can be challenging, it can also be […]
Tuesday, October 1st - Bryan L. Mulcahy – Virtual – Topic: Overcoming Brickwalls, Research Challenges, and Dead Ends - Dead-ends, also known as brick walls, are occupational hazards for genealogists. These challenges are an inevitable part of the genealogical research process. The good news is that many dead ends can be overcome with patience and […]