Schedule
Saturday 12 October 2019
The seminar will consist of 4 sessions during the day.
8:30 – 9:00 | Registration |
Session 1 9:00 – 10:15 |
“Hoosier Daddy?” Tales of a Reluctant Blogger and how Blogs Can Enhance your Genealogical Research |
10:15 – 11:00 | Break Time and Sales Table |
Session 2 11:00 – 12:30 |
Deconstructing Your Family Tree: Re-evaluating the “evidence” When information passed on from researcher to researcher doesn’t “add up”, it’s time to tear down the walls and rebuild anew. This methodology lecture shows how erroneous conclusions can sneak into our research uncontested. This lecture is pertinent especially today with so many Internet family trees that get copied and pasted into our own research. |
12:30 – 1:45 | Lunch |
Session 3 1:45– 3:00 |
“I am Poor, Obscure, Plain, and Little.” Researching the Invisible Ancestors. If your ancestors had little money, they did not buy and sell land, they did not leave wills or probates, they did not purchase stones for graves. How do you find them? This lecture will show you how! |
3:00 – 3:30 | Break Time and Sales Table |
Session 4 3:30– 4:45 |
Hi, We’re Related! Successful Communication with your DNA Matches Do your DNA matches respond to your queries? Are you enticing them with your knowledge or driving them away with gibberish? How do you get strangers to get on board with your genealogical endeavors by sharing their DNA? |