- September 23: "How to Curate Your Family History Collection" (live webinar for the Jewish Genealogy Society of Connecticut)
Bonus! Here's my seven-minute talk on how to make an ancestor coloring book:
Need a speaker? My topics:
- How to Curate Your Family History Collection - Want to keep your family history items and information safe for the future? This presentation, with lively case studies, shows why and how to curate your genealogy collection. Learn what to keep (in your hands or family hands) and how to approach an institution that might want an ancestor's artifacts. Following this process, you can preserve pieces of your family’s history by placing them (physically or digitally) in safe hands, such as in an archive, a museum, a library, a university, an historical society, or a genealogical society. Artifacts/data from my/hubby's family are now in: the Imperial War Museum (England), U.S. Army Women's Museum, Missouri History Museum, Tufts University Library, Cleveland History Center, West Virginia University, the Bronx Historical Society, Illinois State University Milner Library, other institutions.
- 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.
- Free Research Resources for New York Genealogy (and Well Beyond) -Upstate, downstate, all around the Empire state and well beyond, 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. Bonus: Many of these digital resources cover other US states!
- 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!
