Got Ancestors?! 2023

Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL arrived in Grand Rapids on Thursday evening, and today we’ve had a great day visiting downtown to check out the venues of NGS 2018 being held in Grand Rapids, a visit to the giant horse at Frederick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park and then out to the lakeshore to see Lake Michigan.

Registration is now closed, however you can still attend tomorrow’s seminar with Judy. Just come to The Salvation Army Kroc Center at 8:30 and you can register there on the spot for $49. You will need to provide your own lunch now as it’s too late to take any more orders.

Thanks to generous support from the genealogy industry we have a great line up of Door Prizes for the Got Ancestors?! – Legal Matters! seminar this coming Saturday.

The prizes include:

1. A 1 year membership to Fold3.com – donated by Fold3.com part of Ancestry.com;
2. A 1 year membership to Newspapers.com – donated by Newspapers.com – part of Ancestry.com;
3. A 6 month World Explorer membership in Ancestry.com – donated by Ancestry.com;
4. A DNA test kit – donated by MyHeritage.com;
5. A 1 year PremiumPlus + Data membership to MyHeritage.com – donated by MyHeritage.com;
6. A 1 year PremiumPlus + Data membership to MyHeritage.com – donated by MyHeritage.com;
7. A 1 year World Membership in FindMyPast.com – donated by FindMyPast.com;
8. A copy of Family Tree Maker 2017 software – donated by Family Tree Maker;
9. A $25 Gift Certificate to the Western Michigan Genealogical Society Sales Table – donated by Western Michigan Genealogical Society;

You can’t win if you don’t attend!!!!

It’s not too late to register yet – still a couple of days – and if you register by Friday 13th October evening you’ll still be able to order a lunch from Grand Traverse Pie Company. See the Registration link on the right of this page, or click here.

Judy G. Russell, JD, CG , CGL

We’re excited to announce that the speaker for this year’s Got Ancestors?! 2017 Western Michigan Genealogical Society Annual Seminar is The Legal Genealogist – Judy G Russell, JD, CG , CGL.

We’re looking forward to welcoming Judy to The Grand Rapids Salvation Army Kroc Center on South Division Avenue.

Cyndi Ingle arrived in Grand Rapids last evening, and we’re all set to have a great weekend.

The online registration system is now closed – if you still want to attend it’s not too late – send an eMail to Seminar@GotAncestors.com to let us know and then arrive at the Prince Conference Center at Calvin College by 6:30pm on Friday or 8:30am on Saturday.

See also this page

See you There!

It’s here – online registration for this year’s Got Ancestors?! 2016 – Make Your List! is now available – see the link on the right side of this page, or click here

A registration form is also available as a downloadable PDF form here, but please, if you’re reading this here, help us out and register online, rather than printing a form and mailing it in.

See you in October!!

Got Ancestors?! 2016 is coming.

We’re finalising the details and registration will be available soon. We’re looking forward to a GREAT weekend with Cyndi Ingle of Cyndi’s List.

Got Ancestors?! 2015 – We’re Here! – Now What? is here!!

D. Joshua Taylor is on his way from California to Michigan, and (hopefully) everything is set with The Salvation Army Kroc Center for another GREAT event in our series of Annual Seminars.

See this page for details if you decide at the last minute you still want to attend.

It’s going to be a GREAT weekend.

Online registration for Got Ancestors?! 2015: We’re Here! — Now What? with D. Joshua Taylor is now open online at http://GotAncestors.com/registration/

We’re excited to have Josh come to Grand Rapids this year and are looking forward to his presentations on Friday evening 9^th October and Saturday 10^th October.

You can see the schedule here.

Remember we have a new venue this year – we are at The Salvation Army Kroc Center at 2500 South Division Avenue – just north of 28^th St.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

D Joshua Taylor

Planning for the 2015 Got Ancestors?! seminar with D. Joshua Taylor is well underway, and we hope to announce the topics and other details here in the early days of July 2015.

One major change for this year is the venue – we are NOT at the Prince Conference Centre at Calvin College this year – a scheduling conflict has seen us move the event to The Salvation Army Kroc Center at 2500 S Division Ave – just north of 28th Street.

There is plenty of free parking at their modern new venue.

Keep watching here for further updates on topics and registration.