Speakers
The speakers for our GotAncestors?! conference are “The Genealogy Guys” – George G Morgan and Drew Smith. Perhaps best known for their long running “Genealogy Guys PodCast”, both are successful authors of genealogy how-to books, and have spoken at national genealogy conferences.
George G. Morgan
George G. Morgan is the president of Aha! Seminars, Inc., a Florida-based company working with library cooperatives and consortia providing continuing education to libraries and their employees, and genealogy consulting services. George is an outspoken advocate for libraries and librarians’ issues, and is a self-described “rabid genealogist.”
He is an internationally recognized genealogy expert who presents at local, state, national, and international genealogical conferences.
George is the prolific author of literally hundreds of articles for magazines, journals, newsletters, in genealogical publications, and at online sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K, Singapore, and elsewhere. His articles regularly appear in the Plus Edition of Eastman’s Online Genealogical Newsletter and at other sites, and contributed regular columns for the bimonthly Digital Genealogist magazine.
He has written eight books, the newest of which is the second edition of How to Do Everything: Genealogy, published by McGraw-Hill and critically acclaimed by genealogists, societies, and libraries. He also wrote the first and second editions of The Official Guide to Ancestry.com. He has written a chapter in the forthcoming second edition of Professional Genealogy, which will be published at the end of 2009.
Drew Smith
Drew Smith, MLS, is a librarian at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He regularly makes presentations about genealogy at national, state, and local conferences. Together with George G. Morgan, he has been co-host of the weekly Genealogy Guys Podcast since September 2005. His book Social Networking for Genealogists was published by Genealogical Publishing Company in 2009. He contributed regular columns for the bimonthly Digital Genealogist magazine.
Smith wrote numerous articles for Ancestry.com’s quarterly Genealogical Computing, and served as the contributing editor for GC’s “Cybrarian” (formerly known as “Infobahn”) column. He served as technical editor for both editions of George G. Morgan’s book How to Do Everything: Genealogy, published by McGraw-Hill.
Smith helped to found the Librarians Serving Genealogists group, and continues to serve as its list administrator. He was re-elected to the board of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (Director, 2005-2007, 2008-2010). He was elected to the board of the Florida Genealogical Society in Tampa (Director, 2005-2006), and was elected its president for 2007 and re-elected for 2008 and 2009. He is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists.
George and Drew Smith produce “The Genealogy Guys Podcast” each week on the Internet at genealogyguys.com, the longest running, regularly scheduled genealogical podcast in the world, with thousands of subscribers around the world.
