TIP OF THE WEEK – FIFTEEN FREE WEBINARS FOR BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE GENEALOGISTS
The Family History Library and the Research Specialists of the United States and Canada Reference team are offering a free, never before offered, week-long seminar in October of 2015 in Salt Lake City. The focus will be exclusively U.S. research. The sessions will be ideal for beginning and intermediate genealogists interested in learning about U.S. records, FamilySearch resources, and Family History Library collections. The seminar is now full for anyone wishing to attend in person. However, fifteen of the thirty classes will be broadcast via webinar. For more information please see the following: https:// familysearch.org/blog/en/ united-states-research-seminarTo attend one or more of these webinars, just click on their links below to attend.
ALL TIMES LISTED BELOW ARE MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME; SUBTRACT ONE HOUR FOR PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME. You can join the webinar up to 30 minutes prior to each start time; just go to the link below, and click on JOIN.
ALL TIMES LISTED BELOW ARE MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT TIME; SUBTRACT ONE HOUR FOR PACIFIC DAYLIGHT TIME. You can join the webinar up to 30 minutes prior to each start time; just go to the link below, and click on JOIN.
12 October, Monday:
- 1:30pm-2:30pm, Tips and Tricks for Using FamilySearch’s Historical Records Collection
- 2:45pm-3:45pm, FamilySearch Research Wiki
- 4:00pm-5:00pm, Using the Family History Library Catalog
13 October, Tuesday:
- 8:30am-9:30am, United States Census
- 9:45am-10:45am, United States Census Techniques and Strategies for Finding Elusive Ancestors
- 11:00am-12 Noon, Finding Your Ancestors in Vital Records
14 October, Wednesday:
- 8:30am-9:30am, United States Court Records
- 9:45am-10:45am, Immigration Into the United States
- 11:00am-12 Noon, United States Naturalization
15 October, Thursday:
- 1:30pm-2:30pm, United States Newspaper Research: News You Can Use
- 2:45pm-3:45pm, Overview of American Indian Resesarch
- 4:00pm-5:00pm, Beginning African-American Research: Post 1865
16 October, Friday:
- 8:30am-9:30am, Descendancy Research
- 9:45am-10:45am, Solving Tough Research Problems
- 11:00am-12 Noon, Some People Really Need to Get a Clue! Document Analyzation and Evaluation