- April 27: Tune Up Your Cousin Bait! (free live talks hosted by Virtual Genealogical Assoc)
- May 27: Free Resources for New York Genealogical Research (live webinar hosted by Southington Genealogical Society)
- May 31: Bring Family History Alive in Bite-Sized Projects (live webinar hosted by Massachusetts Society of Genealogists)
- June 11: Free Resources for New York Genealogical Research (live webinar hosted by Genealogy Club of Newtown)
- August 19: Clues to Conclusions: Can You Prove It? The Genealogical Proof Standard (live webinar hosted by Wisconsin State Genealogical Society)
Bonus! Here's my seven-minute talk on how to make an ancestor coloring book:
Need a speaker? My topics:
- Planning a Future for Your Family's Past - Ancestors' photos, stories, documents, and heirlooms are part of your family's past, but there's no guarantee that they will outlive you. Protect your genealogy collection by: organizing and storing materials safely; curating your collection; writing a "genealogical will" to safeguard your collection for the future; and sharing your family's history now. Put a plan in place today to preserve your family's legacy tomorrow, even if there are no obvious heirs for your collection.
- Researching Military Records and More on Fold3 - The Fold3.com website is a gateway to millions of military records and more, including naturalization documents and city directories, useful for family history research. This program provides an overview of Fold3’s wide-ranging genealogical content and then demonstrates, step by step, how to navigate the site, with specific examples of research strategies for military/non-military documents. Attendees will also learn how to create or expand memorial pages for ancestors who served in the military, accessible to anyone who searches on Fold3.
- Genealogical Clues and Cousin Bait on FindaGrave - Tips and tricks for using the free FindaGrave.com site to research ancestors, memorialize their burial places, and connect with cousins. Beyond the basic search techniques that can uncover new genealogical clues, see how to catch the eye of cousins and researchers by linking family-tree members, posting ancestor bios, submitting edits and flowers, and personalizing your member profile. Also learn why and how to create a virtual cemetery for your ancestors--so relatives and descendants will know exactly where the bodies are buried!
- Bring Family History Alive in Bite-Sized Projects - Get fresh ideas for documenting family history stories in engaging, practical, bite-sized projects that can be shared with relatives and posted on genealogy websites for the sake of future generations. Learn why and how to narrow your focus to one ancestor or family, occasion, heirloom, photo, or place. Like a sprint rather than a marathon, each project takes a short time and gives you flexibility to be creative in spotlighting one aspect of family history to share with relatives now. Presentation includes how-to examples of projects such as brief ancestor bios and booklets, heirloom background stories, ancestor coloring books, full-size and smaller photobooks, and audio/video-based family history.
- NEW! Free Resources for New York Genealogical Research - Upstate, downstate, all around the Empire state, discover or rediscover free resources for investigating ancestors' lives and family history context. Step-by-step, learn how to navigate no-fee websites with many updated links to New York area digitized county histories, digitized vital records, oral histories, old photos and postcards, state census records, historic newspapers, county/local history experts, and more.
- From Clues to Conclusions: Can You Prove It? - To go from
clues to answers for tough family history challenges, find out what
it means to "prove" something in genealogy. With intriguing real-world case
studies, this how-to presentation defines and demonstrates the use of the
Genealogical Proof Standard for planning research, analyzing sources and details, resolving conflicting clues, and coming to a
credible solution with higher confidence. Seeing the proof process in action can provide insights and ideas for turning clues into provable conclusions.
Note: The second edition of my concise genealogy book is available as a paperback and ebook on Amazon in US, Canada, UK, and worldwide.
Please email (marianbww@charter.net) for more information and scheduling!
