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Canadian Sessions
A Toboggan Ride Through Canadian Records, eh!
Take a toboggan ride, from east to west, stopping briefly at each Province and Territory to check out websites containing records for that area. Have some fun with the culture that is uniquely Canadian.
Canadian records on Ancestry and FamilySearch
What records do each of this websites have and how do you find the list. This session will also explain where to keep and organize the different records, in a Table of Records, you find which will be helpful in your research.
Daughters of the King to Mothers of a Nation
The history and stories of the Filles du roi. Find out who these over 800 King's Daughters were, why they came, and how did they leave their mark on New France and Canada. Why are they defined as Filles du roi. As well as who are the Filles a Marier and how are they different.
FNMI: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada
FNMI is an acronym used in Canada to identify the three Indigenous (or Aboriginal) peoples of Canada. This session will explain who they are, their each unique history, how they are represented in Census records, and where to find other records and resources for each.
From Grandmother to First European Landowner of Canada
In the 1980s, my grandmother gave me her parents’ names, their wedding date and the names of her 15 siblings. From that information I researched from the early 1900s in Northwest Ontario back to the first European landowner in Canada. I will explain each step I took along the way, how I did it then, and how to do it now. Although, the process is the same these steps are done so much easier and faster today with today’s technology and the internet.
Home Home on the Range (Canada Version)
Using my ancestors, who were homesteaders in Manitoba, I will show how to obtain a copy of the record, understand each item on the record to figure out where it is located, converting to latitude and longitude, and then view in Google Maps today. I will also go through how to take a screen shot to save the image and share with others.
How the West Was Won in Canada
This session will discuss why people came to Western Canada, where did they come from, why they came to Western Canada, along with where to find records and help for each group of immigrants who now call Canada their home. Definitions and terminologies to help understand records are included.
Through the Prairies to the Rocky Mountains: Records of Western Canada
If your family moved to Western Canada for land and open spaces, this session will help you find their records using Homestead records, genealogical and cultural societies, museums, provincial and federal archives, as well as FamilySearch and Ancestry. To help organize records available, a Table of Records is explained.
DNA Sessions
DNA workshop: The different types and when to use them
Each of the DNA types will be explained and when each can be used, by themselves or with another type, to solve your Family History. Included is how the DNA results work with your paper trail.
Why Y and mitochondrial DNA?
After defining and explaining these two types of DNA along with who they are related to, we will look into when these two can help, along with your paper trail, your Family History research. Surname Studies will be examined along with the Y DNA.
The ABCs of DNA's amXY
What are the different types of DNA and how can they help you with your research. Along with your paper research, we will discuss when these can be useful in solving mysteries with stories and examples with my family.
Family History Sessions
Create and Share Your Family History Through Videos
We all have stories that need to be recorded. Big ones and little ones that make you smile, cry, laugh, and remember family. Even the little ones need to be recorded but how do you record these in a fun way that family will spend the time? Make a short video. Show images and talk about it. Do you have old family videos that you want to share so they are not lost? Do you have videos of your ancestors’ places in the British Isles you would like to share with your family? Do you have items that you want to explain to family so they are not forgotten? Create a YouTube channel to store all of these videos. Once they are on YouTube you can now share those videos with just your family or whomever you want.
Telling Family Stories in 15 Minutes a Day
Trying to record your family stories can feel overwhelming. You might not be sure where to start, or what to record, how to record the history so that family and future generations will be interested in the stories. This session shares a variety of ways to record the history of family heirlooms, make useful new items from these heirlooms, as well as stories with items and short videos.
Treasures and The Truth: Vlogging to Record Family Memories
Do you have family treasures that have been handed down through the generations and you have them now? Do you like them? Do your children like them? Do you have room for them? Do you want them out of the house as soon as possible but you can't just throw them away because there are too many memories. Do you have family history stories that you want to share visually? Do you want to record history of houses or areas the family have lived? Have you written a family history and realized that no one wants to read it? (no matter how well it is written). This session will discuss ways to record these items and history so that future generations will know their family history in a way the next generation will enjoy through pictures and videos.
Research Sessions (Not specific to Canada)
FamilySearch Catalog: The Sears Christmas Catalog for Genealogists
Did you mark your wish list in the Sears Christmas catalog as a child? FamilySearch Catalog lists everything available in the FamilySearch Library. Items include books, online materials, microfilm., microfiche, publications. Learn how to search for records in an area by place, surname, title, author, subject, or keywords, and combinations of these. Recognize where the records are available, whether Online, Affiliated Library, FamilySearch Center, or the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City and what media they are stored in . Learn how to search in film images, adjust their image, and zoom in and out. When you find records for your research, mark each to view later, a to do list of items which may be printed to the library when you get to go in person. Just like the Christmas Catalog had something for every member of the family, this catalog has something for everyone, no matter where you live.
Home Home on the Range (US Version)
Were your ancestors homesteaders in United States? Using a couple of case studies, and a family in Clay County, Missouri, This session will show how to find homestead records, understand each component of the document including meridians, township, range road, and section. This session will then cover converting the information to use in Google Maps to see what the land looks like in the present day, along with a list of resources for future reference.
Marking Your Ancestors' FootSteps in Google Maps
Find where your ancestors lived. Mark these locations on your own Google map, using your Google account, by using addresses, latitude and Longitude, name of the place, or placing a drop. Create a map of Earliest Known Ancestors to organize where to research. Share your map with others.
One Ancestor at a Time: The Process of Research
After you have gathered what you know, it is time to begin the researching process. Deciding an online or desktop tree, which will be discussed. Following the Genealogical Proof Standard, begin entering in each ancestor along with their information. Upload all documentation and enter the citations for that ancestor before going on to the next. Use extensive and planned research for unknown information. Beginner Researcher
One Place Case Study
In trying to break a brick wall or just learn more about your ancestors' lives a One Place Study may help. A One Place Study (OPS) can be a town, city, county but it also can be just one building, one street, or only a specific time in an area. There are no rules. This session will explain what an OPS is, share resources available for a study, ideas of what to do and how. Once you decide you are going to do a study, decide and prepare a location for storing, organizing, and sharing your results with others. A unique and productive way to research.
Researching Effectively with FamilySearch Affiliate Library
Why are Affiliated Libraries so wonderful? FamilySearch records are online, but many are only available in Salt Lake City, a FamilySearch Center, or an Affiliated Library. If you don't have a FamilySearch Center near by and you don't live near Salt Lake City then an Affiliated Library maybe your answer. Records that are not available online are often available at an FamilySearch Center or an Affiliated Library. This session will show how to search for records and how to identify which ones are available and how to use them with an affiliated library.
Surname Study. The Whys, Hows, and Wherefores of a One Name Study
Ever want to know what a surname study is and why anyone would want to do it? This session will answer those two questions along with how it can help you in your research, where to find resources, how to find if someone else is already doing it, where to gather family to share information found, how to find other family members and ask them to join, and why Y-DNA is helpful.
Top Ten Reasons to Use FamilySearch website
There is more to FamilySearch website than the online tree, all of which are free. This session not only lists what those reasons are but also how to use them. They are: Memories, Story, Family Trees, Printing, FamilySearch Catalog, FamilySearch Wiki, Sources and Citations for record sets, apps, family history activities to do as a family, indexing.
Some of these items only work if you have your family on FamilySearch.
Using FamilySearch Catalog and Wiki for Scottish Research
Learn how to use the FamilySearch catalog and wiki and understand the results while using Scotland as the examples.
This session was for a Scottish SIG but can be adopted to any country or location.
Where do you start to Find Out Who You Are? An Introduction to Genealogy and Family History.
You have been watching Who Do You Think You Are shows, or you hear people talking about genealogy and family history and you want to get involved but you have no idea where to start. If that is the case, this session is for you. Start with gather what you know and where to look. Next where to record what you already know to prepare for your research. Where to record your research and where will you share your research.
Technology Sessions
Keep Track of Every Note in EverNote
This session will discuss why to use Evernote, their platforms, and screen layouts for each. The following will be illustrated during the session for each platform. Create notes by typing, an email, twitter, a website, record audio. From the phone app create a note from sticky notes and Business cards. Draw using the tablet app. Once multiple notes have been created Notebooks and Stacks are created to organize your notes. Search is also shown to find created notes.
Marking Your Ancestors' Footsteps in Google Maps
We will use Google Maps to see where your ancestors walked, plot the migration of your ancestors, mark where your earliest known ancestor was located and organize a trip. This session will also explain how to use Google Maps see what is now in the location of an ancestor’s home, add these locations with stars and labels under your Google account share these with other family members, plot the migration of ancestral families, mark the locations of your Earliest Known Ancestors to organize where your research, layout an ancestral trip by locating places to visit, and the order to visit them such as homes and graveyards.
A free Google Account is needed for this session.
Showing Off Your Hard Work through Blogging
Now that you have found wonderful information on your ancestors you want to share this with your family, for their information or to prove you were right. A free online location is a blog. This session will show you how to create a blog using blogspot, choose a layout and colours, create posts, add and edit text, add photos and links to documents. Adding labels and a search bar are good for organizing and helping others find topics they are looking for. Blog length and what to include in your posts will also be discussed.
A free Google Account is needed for this session.
Canadian Sessions
A Toboggan Ride Through Canadian Records, eh!
Take a toboggan ride, from east to west, stopping briefly at each Province and Territory to check out websites containing records for that area. Have some fun with the culture that is uniquely Canadian.
Canadian records on Ancestry and FamilySearch
What records do each of this websites have and how do you find the list. This session will also explain where to keep and organize the different records, in a Table of Records, you find which will be helpful in your research.
Daughters of the King to Mothers of a Nation
The history and stories of the Filles du roi. Find out who these over 800 King's Daughters were, why they came, and how did they leave their mark on New France and Canada. Why are they defined as Filles du roi. As well as who are the Filles a Marier and how are they different.
FNMI: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada
FNMI is an acronym used in Canada to identify the three Indigenous (or Aboriginal) peoples of Canada. This session will explain who they are, their each unique history, how they are represented in Census records, and where to find other records and resources for each.
From Grandmother to First European Landowner of Canada
In the 1980s, my grandmother gave me her parents’ names, their wedding date and the names of her 15 siblings. From that information I researched from the early 1900s in Northwest Ontario back to the first European landowner in Canada. I will explain each step I took along the way, how I did it then, and how to do it now. Although, the process is the same these steps are done so much easier and faster today with today’s technology and the internet.
Home Home on the Range (Canada Version)
Using my ancestors, who were homesteaders in Manitoba, I will show how to obtain a copy of the record, understand each item on the record to figure out where it is located, converting to latitude and longitude, and then view in Google Maps today. I will also go through how to take a screen shot to save the image and share with others.
How the West Was Won in Canada
This session will discuss why people came to Western Canada, where did they come from, why they came to Western Canada, along with where to find records and help for each group of immigrants who now call Canada their home. Definitions and terminologies to help understand records are included.
Through the Prairies to the Rocky Mountains: Records of Western Canada
If your family moved to Western Canada for land and open spaces, this session will help you find their records using Homestead records, genealogical and cultural societies, museums, provincial and federal archives, as well as FamilySearch and Ancestry. To help organize records available, a Table of Records is explained.
DNA Sessions
DNA workshop: The different types and when to use them
Each of the DNA types will be explained and when each can be used, by themselves or with another type, to solve your Family History. Included is how the DNA results work with your paper trail.
Why Y and mitochondrial DNA?
After defining and explaining these two types of DNA along with who they are related to, we will look into when these two can help, along with your paper trail, your Family History research. Surname Studies will be examined along with the Y DNA.
The ABCs of DNA's amXY
What are the different types of DNA and how can they help you with your research. Along with your paper research, we will discuss when these can be useful in solving mysteries with stories and examples with my family.
Family History Sessions
Create and Share Your Family History Through Videos
We all have stories that need to be recorded. Big ones and little ones that make you smile, cry, laugh, and remember family. Even the little ones need to be recorded but how do you record these in a fun way that family will spend the time? Make a short video. Show images and talk about it. Do you have old family videos that you want to share so they are not lost? Do you have videos of your ancestors’ places in the British Isles you would like to share with your family? Do you have items that you want to explain to family so they are not forgotten? Create a YouTube channel to store all of these videos. Once they are on YouTube you can now share those videos with just your family or whomever you want.
Telling Family Stories in 15 Minutes a Day
Trying to record your family stories can feel overwhelming. You might not be sure where to start, or what to record, how to record the history so that family and future generations will be interested in the stories. This session shares a variety of ways to record the history of family heirlooms, make useful new items from these heirlooms, as well as stories with items and short videos.
Treasures and The Truth: Vlogging to Record Family Memories
Do you have family treasures that have been handed down through the generations and you have them now? Do you like them? Do your children like them? Do you have room for them? Do you want them out of the house as soon as possible but you can't just throw them away because there are too many memories. Do you have family history stories that you want to share visually? Do you want to record history of houses or areas the family have lived? Have you written a family history and realized that no one wants to read it? (no matter how well it is written). This session will discuss ways to record these items and history so that future generations will know their family history in a way the next generation will enjoy through pictures and videos.
Research Sessions (Not specific to Canada)
FamilySearch Catalog: The Sears Christmas Catalog for Genealogists
Did you mark your wish list in the Sears Christmas catalog as a child? FamilySearch Catalog lists everything available in the FamilySearch Library. Items include books, online materials, microfilm., microfiche, publications. Learn how to search for records in an area by place, surname, title, author, subject, or keywords, and combinations of these. Recognize where the records are available, whether Online, Affiliated Library, FamilySearch Center, or the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City and what media they are stored in . Learn how to search in film images, adjust their image, and zoom in and out. When you find records for your research, mark each to view later, a to do list of items which may be printed to the library when you get to go in person. Just like the Christmas Catalog had something for every member of the family, this catalog has something for everyone, no matter where you live.
Home Home on the Range (US Version)
Were your ancestors homesteaders in United States? Using a couple of case studies, and a family in Clay County, Missouri, This session will show how to find homestead records, understand each component of the document including meridians, township, range road, and section. This session will then cover converting the information to use in Google Maps to see what the land looks like in the present day, along with a list of resources for future reference.
Marking Your Ancestors' FootSteps in Google Maps
Find where your ancestors lived. Mark these locations on your own Google map, using your Google account, by using addresses, latitude and Longitude, name of the place, or placing a drop. Create a map of Earliest Known Ancestors to organize where to research. Share your map with others.
One Ancestor at a Time: The Process of Research
After you have gathered what you know, it is time to begin the researching process. Deciding an online or desktop tree, which will be discussed. Following the Genealogical Proof Standard, begin entering in each ancestor along with their information. Upload all documentation and enter the citations for that ancestor before going on to the next. Use extensive and planned research for unknown information. Beginner Researcher
One Place Case Study
In trying to break a brick wall or just learn more about your ancestors' lives a One Place Study may help. A One Place Study (OPS) can be a town, city, county but it also can be just one building, one street, or only a specific time in an area. There are no rules. This session will explain what an OPS is, share resources available for a study, ideas of what to do and how. Once you decide you are going to do a study, decide and prepare a location for storing, organizing, and sharing your results with others. A unique and productive way to research.
Researching Effectively with FamilySearch Affiliate Library
Why are Affiliated Libraries so wonderful? FamilySearch records are online, but many are only available in Salt Lake City, a FamilySearch Center, or an Affiliated Library. If you don't have a FamilySearch Center near by and you don't live near Salt Lake City then an Affiliated Library maybe your answer. Records that are not available online are often available at an FamilySearch Center or an Affiliated Library. This session will show how to search for records and how to identify which ones are available and how to use them with an affiliated library.
Surname Study. The Whys, Hows, and Wherefores of a One Name Study
Ever want to know what a surname study is and why anyone would want to do it? This session will answer those two questions along with how it can help you in your research, where to find resources, how to find if someone else is already doing it, where to gather family to share information found, how to find other family members and ask them to join, and why Y-DNA is helpful.
Top Ten Reasons to Use FamilySearch website
There is more to FamilySearch website than the online tree, all of which are free. This session not only lists what those reasons are but also how to use them. They are: Memories, Story, Family Trees, Printing, FamilySearch Catalog, FamilySearch Wiki, Sources and Citations for record sets, apps, family history activities to do as a family, indexing.
Some of these items only work if you have your family on FamilySearch.
Using FamilySearch Catalog and Wiki for Scottish Research
Learn how to use the FamilySearch catalog and wiki and understand the results while using Scotland as the examples.
This session was for a Scottish SIG but can be adopted to any country or location.
Where do you start to Find Out Who You Are? An Introduction to Genealogy and Family History.
You have been watching Who Do You Think You Are shows, or you hear people talking about genealogy and family history and you want to get involved but you have no idea where to start. If that is the case, this session is for you. Start with gather what you know and where to look. Next where to record what you already know to prepare for your research. Where to record your research and where will you share your research.
Technology Sessions
Keep Track of Every Note in EverNote
This session will discuss why to use Evernote, their platforms, and screen layouts for each. The following will be illustrated during the session for each platform. Create notes by typing, an email, twitter, a website, record audio. From the phone app create a note from sticky notes and Business cards. Draw using the tablet app. Once multiple notes have been created Notebooks and Stacks are created to organize your notes. Search is also shown to find created notes.
Marking Your Ancestors' Footsteps in Google Maps
We will use Google Maps to see where your ancestors walked, plot the migration of your ancestors, mark where your earliest known ancestor was located and organize a trip. This session will also explain how to use Google Maps see what is now in the location of an ancestor’s home, add these locations with stars and labels under your Google account share these with other family members, plot the migration of ancestral families, mark the locations of your Earliest Known Ancestors to organize where your research, layout an ancestral trip by locating places to visit, and the order to visit them such as homes and graveyards.
A free Google Account is needed for this session.
Showing Off Your Hard Work through Blogging
Now that you have found wonderful information on your ancestors you want to share this with your family, for their information or to prove you were right. A free online location is a blog. This session will show you how to create a blog using blogspot, choose a layout and colours, create posts, add and edit text, add photos and links to documents. Adding labels and a search bar are good for organizing and helping others find topics they are looking for. Blog length and what to include in your posts will also be discussed.
A free Google Account is needed for this session.
Research and Share the Social Media Way
There are many social media platforms. Which ones are beneficial for genealogist? This session will review the different platforms that are being used today to help with researching your family history, how to share what you have found, have others share with you, and coordinate communication to collaborate. We will discuss who uses what types of Social Media and how to engage family of all ages.
Write a Genealogical Research Report in Microsoft Word
Starting with defining the sections of a research report and what they contain, we will then format text, headings, and bullets. Then, insert and delete page breaks, insert headers and footers, footnotes, and horizontal bars. We will create and format tables for census records, image list, as well as the Research Log in another document. Finally how to save the layout as a template and use it.
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