Google Drive to Organize, Backup and Share Your Genealogy
A beginning course which will teach how to create a Google account; create files in Google Drive, how to upload file and folders from your computer, create folders, move files to different folders, different ways to fin your files and share all of this with others.
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Finding Aids: The Road Map to Any Manuscript Collection
Genealogists use all kinds of tools to help them with their genealogy research. One of the best tools to understand and use when working with Manuscript Collections are Finding Aids. Archivists develop Finding Aids to navigate through Manuscript Collections.
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Finding Free Digital Content to Enhance Your Family History Storytelling Without Violating Copyright
Genealogists often incorporate digital content created by others into our personal, society, or professional work. What can you freely use without violating U.S. copyright law? This presentation explains public domain and Creative Commons-licensed works, and the terms and conditions under which you can freely use these materials.
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Tips for Beginners in Mexican Genealogy: Civil Registers and Parish Records
This presentation will provide an overview of seven major record types in Mexico Region: Civil Birth, Marriage and Death Records and Parish Baptism, Marriage,Census and Burial Records. The presentation will touch on variations of these records along with paleography tips. The targeted audience is beginning genealogists with limited familiarity in Mexico.
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25+ Ways to Make Your Family Histories Vibrant and Appealing
Yes! You can create family histories that are vibrant and appealing even when few family photos are available. All of us will need these techniques for ancestors who lived before the advent of modern photography in 1839. Fortunately, there are many other ways to illustrate the life and times of our ancestors. Be mindful of the ways they traveled, worshiped, gained an education and made a living. Consider the places they lived, the climate and weather, their dress, ethnicity, talents and skills. 25+ ideas will be presented with accompanying resources. So many engaging items exist that can shed light on the lives of our ancestors and breathe life into the family history! You can do it!
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Strategies and Tools for Breaking Through Genealogy Brick Walls
The four ancestral identifiers in genealogy are: Name, Date, Place and Relationship. When something is amiss with one or more of the identifiers, research can stall. Presentation examines each of the identifiers more closely, detailing new strategies for data analysis to help researchers punch through those pesky brick walls.
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Does my Ancestor have a F.A.N Club?
Ever wonder who your ancestor’s Friends, Associates and Neighbors were? By using different records such as Censuses, Vitals, Land, Church, and Probate will help build your ancestor’s F.A.N club. The importance of having a F.A.N club will also be discussed.
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Statistical tool for Genealogy: The Fait
Are humanities condemned to don’t benefit from statistics? Statistic is the science of making choices in uncertain situations. We face many decisions having incomplete information in our research. Think of searching a death certificate! Can statistics help us to make the right ones? This lecture explains how presenting a tool!
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Sharing Your Research Results
Today’s technologies give us many ways to share results without writing a full book. Let’s discuss creative ways to share even small discoveries that might interest your living family members.
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Hopping Down the Paper Trail
The records our ancestors left behind often lead us to other records, which sometimes take us down a rabbit hole. Learn how to scour each new record for clues, keep those clues organized, and how to prioritize which clues to chase first so that you stay on track.
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Julian vs Gregorian Calendar; What Does it Mean for Your Genealogy Research
Genealogist researching records need to understand the Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar system. Learning which calendar system was used will help you understand the different dates used in the records of your ancestors.
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The Coahuiltecans Over Time: Past and Present
This is such a wide-ranging group that covered so many states (Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas and Texas) that I would try to categorize some of the groups, talk about their wars, show maps, discuss their gradual disappearance and mention any present-day representations of them. I've always been curious to try and create a more detailed account about them, even though I believe they were more diverse than some suspect.
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