Upcoming 2020 Presentations

RootsTech 2020

I will be teaching two classes at RootsTech:

• Discovering Your Family History in Newspapers.com, Thursday 1:30pm (PDF of slides)
• Fold3: Understanding Your Ancestor’s Place in Civil War History, Friday 3pm (PDF of slides)
  • Note: I will be introducing our new Civil War Stories in this course.

Ancestry booth (times MST):

• Cluster Genealogy: Thursday 2/27 6pm, Friday 2/28, noon (PDF of slides)
• Civil War: It’s Personal: Thursday 2/27 4:30pm, Friday 1pm (also on Facebook livestream!)

Family History Institute 2020

Saturday April 4th, Wytheville, Virginia CANCELLED

• Mapping out Old Mount Airy
• From Pennsylvania to Southwest Virginia: How and Why Our Ancestors Migrated

Virginia Genealogy Society

Saturday April 18th, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia CANCELLED

• Researching Communities: The Key to Unlocking Your Ancestors’ Stories 

California Genealogical Society

Oakland Family History Center on Saturday, May 16

• Finding Military Records Using Fold3

American Battlefield Trust Annual Conference

Chantilly, Virginia June 2020 More to come on this one!

 

 

2017 Presentations

• Austin, Texas, 2017 Texas Institute of Genealogical Research (TIGR), May 22-25

 

• Raleigh, North Carolina, Family History Lives Here, NGS, 10-13 May 2017
  • The Industrial Revolution Comes Home: Textile Mills and Your Ancestors; May 11, 8am (Slides)
  • Putting Food on the Table and A Roof Overhead: How Your Ancestors Earned a Living; May 11, 2:30pm (Slides)
  • Research Guides To Your Ancestors Online; May 12, 11am (Slides) (Syllabus)
• Salt Lake City, RootsTech 2017, Feb 8-11, 2017:
  • Billy Yank or Johnny Reb: Civil War Ancestors; Wednesday, 4:30pm, Room 250A, Session RT 7642 (Slides Spreadsheet examples )
  • Discovering Your Ancestor’s War Story; Friday, 4:30pm, Room 250A, Session RT 1301 (Slides)
    

2016 Presentations

• Annadale, Virginia, Fairfax Genealogical Society, October 2016
  • Register today at Fairfax Genealogical Society 13th Annual Fair for:
    • Finding Forgotten Stories (Slides)
      
    • Researching Your Southern Ancestors Online (Slides)
      
    • Cousin Bait: Make Social Media Work For You (Slides)
      
    • Putting Food on the Table & A Roof Over Their Heads (Slides)
      
• San Diego California, San Diego History Center, San Diego Genealogy Society, October 2016
  • How Do I Know I Am Right? (Slides : How Do I Am Know I Am Right?; Case Study; Template for Research)
    
  • Finding and Researching Women (Slides : Finding and Researching Women)
    
• Wytheville, Virginia, April 2016
  • Researching Women in the South
  • Proving Kinship with Land and Chancery
• RootsTech 2016, Salt Lake City, Feb 2016:
  • Ancestry Helps Tell Your Ancestor’s Story: Basic functionality in “New Ancestry” is covered so you can focus on doing more than just collecting records for your ancestor. Telling the story is also important. You can also check out my free Ancestry Academy course Learn About Your Ancestors Using the Latest From Ancestry
    
  • How to Find Probate and Estate Records for Your Ancestor on Ancestry: I reviewed how to find, search and more importantly browse Wills, Probates and Estate records on Ancestry. You can also view my free Ancestry Academy course Navigating Wills and Probates on Ancestry.
  • Your Ancestors’ War Story from Beginning to End: I love talking about the military adventures of my ancestors, especially Civil War ancestors. I lay out my basic methodology for researching your military ancestors.
  • How to Become a Master Searcher on Ancestry: My first job at Ancestry over seven years ago was as the Search Product Manager and I’ve never lost my love for the product. Telling the story is also important. You can also check out my free Ancestry Academy course Seek and Ye Shall Find: Become an Ancestry Search Expert

2015 Presentations

• Exhaustively Searching on Ancestry.com, Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Genealogical Society, April 2015 (Exhaustively Searching on Ancestry.com)
• Searching to Reveal Your Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry, Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Genealogical Society, April 2015 (Searching to Reveal Your Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry)
• How To Reveal Your Female Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com, Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Genealogical Society, April 2015 (How To Reveal Your Female Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com)
• Extracting Stories from Military Records, Richmond, Virginia, Virginia Genealogical Society, (Extracting Stories from Military Records)
• How To Reveal Your Female Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com, San Luis Obispo Genealogy Society, April 2015 (How To Reveal Your Female Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com)
• Extracting Stories from Military Records, San Luis Obispo Genealogy Society, April 2015 (Extracting Stories from Military Records)

2014 Presentations

• How To Reveal Your Female Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com, FGS 2014, August 2014, San Antonio, Texas (How To Reveal Your Female Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com)
• Exhaustively Searching on Ancestry.com, Midwestern Roots 2014, Aug 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana (Exhaustively Searching on Ancestry — Slides)
• You’ve Found Your Soldier on Fold3, Now What?, Midwestern Roots 2014, Aug 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana (You’ve Found Your Soldier on Fold3, Now What — Slides, Spreadsheet examples)
• Putting Your Ancestors in Historical Perspective with Newspapers.com, Midwestern Roots 2014, Aug 2014, Indianapolis, Indiana (Putting Your Ancestors in Historical Perspective on Newspapers – slides)
• How to Reveal Your Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com (How to Reveal Your Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry — Slides)
• Successfully Searching to Reveal Your Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com, NGS 2014, Richmond, Virginia and Wytheville Family History Day, March 2014, Wytheville Virginia (PDF Slides)
• Putting Your Ancestors Into Historical Perspective: Extracting Your Ancestor Military Story on Ancestry.com and Fold3, Wytheville Family History Day, March 2014, Wytheville, Virginia (PDF Slides)
• Learning How To Tune Your Ancestry.com Search, RootsTech 2014, February 2014 (PDF Slides)
• Putting Your Ancestors in Historical Perspective: Extracting Stories from Military Records on Ancestry.com and Fold3, RootsTech 2014, February 2014 (PDF Slides, Spreadsheet examples)

2013 Presentations

• Putting Your Ancestors in Historical Perspective — Extracting Military Stories from Ancestry.com and Fold3 (PDF Slides), San Francisco AncestryDay 2013, November 2013, Anne Mitchell
• Searching and Writing Your Family History as You Go on Ancestry.com (PDF slides), San Francisco AncestryDay 2013, November 2013, Anne Mitchell
• Researching the Past With Ancestry.com (PDF Slides), Mitchelville, October 2013, Kim Harrison
• Searching and Writing Your Family History as You Go on Ancestry.com (PDF slides), SoCal Jamboree 2013, June 2013, Anne Mitchell
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Fold3 (PDF slides), SoCal Jamboree 2013, June 2013, Anne Mitchell
• Learning how to Tune your Ancestry.com Search (PDF slides), Fairfax Genealogical Conference, April 2013, Anne Mitchell
  
• Exhaustively Searching on Ancestry.com (PDF slides), Fairfax Genealogical Conference, April 2013, Anne Mitchell
  
• Searching Successfully to Reveal Your Ancestor’s Story on Ancestry.com (PDF slides), Roots Tech 2013, March 2013, Anne Mitchell (same talk as Find them Fast)
• Find them Fast: Searching Secrets to Help You Find Your Ancestors Stories on Ancestry.com (PDF slides), Ancestry Day Midwest Genealogy Center, March 2013, Anne Mitchell
• Putting Your Ancestors in Historical Perspective: Extracting Stories from Military Records on Ancestry.com and Fold3 (PDF Slides), Ancestry Day Midwest Genealogy Center, March 2013, Anne Mitchell