| Getting Started in Genealogy (Joan Whiston) |
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| Confessions of a Genealogist (Lisa A. Alzo) |
| I confess. I’m addicted to genealogy. After 15+ years of performing family history research, I’ve learned a number of valuable lessons. This session will summarize the musings and insights of an avid genealogist and provide tips on how research more productively and how to actually have some FUN in the process! “If you can’t get rid of the family skeleton, you might as well make it dance.”
- George Bernard Shaw 1856–1950. |
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| Genealogy Using the Internet (Denise Kolesar) |
| Are you timid about using the internet. Not sure if there is any information out there for you? Have you tried to look something up, but have gotten nowhere? This session will show you how to go about searching for information on the internet, whether it be looking for a distant relative, finding a program to publish your family tree or locating a translation website. Tips, terminology and software will also be discussed. Handouts of site links will be given. |
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| Manitoba Genealogical Society Resources (Mary Bole) |
| This presentation will explore the resources available at the Manitoba Genealogical Society’s Resource Center. It will center on Manitoba resources, discussing transcribed cemeteries and church records, indexed obituaries and census returns, the value of local history books as well as our collection of directories, atlases, gazetteers, etc. The library houses nearly 10,000 items. Internet sites of interest to those searching in Manitoba will be included. |
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| Palaeography - An Introduction to Reading & Interpreting Old Handwriting (Elizabeth Briggs) |
| Presentation includes: learning to read and understand modern English writing from the fifteenth century; writing materials; examples of handwriting with characteristic letters; yogh and thorn; techniques for reading old handwriting; and reading letters, words, phrases & sentences. |
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| Emigration: the Decision, Preparations to Leave, and the Paper Trail (Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius) |
| This lecture will explore the changes which encouraged people to emigrate, including economic, social, and political reasons, and will take a close look at the process of separating from the homeland and discovering the "paper trail" (i.e., passports) it created. |
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| German Ports, Emigration Literature, and the Voyage (Maralyn A. Wellauer-Lenius) |
| Attendees will learn how to use the vast supply of "emigration literature" (i.e., Passenger lists, Hamburg Police Records, etc.) to trace a genealogy, and learn how to recreate the journey and its hardships. Actual case studies will be drawn upon to strengthen the experience. |
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| Changes in Eastern Europe and Family History Library Microfilming (Daniel M. Schlyter) |
| This lecture discusses Eastern European border changes and covers the history of what, when, and how the Family History Library has acquired the records in its collection including current acquisitions. |
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| How Family History Library Films are Acquired from the Former Soviet Sphere (Kahlile B. Mehr) |
| Collection Management at the Family History Library, Record Locations, Field Negotiations, Filming Procedures, Shipping, Receipt, Cataloging, and Distribution through the Family History Library Catalog. Understand why some records are acquired and others not. Improved ability to find information in the Family History Library Catalog. |
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| Reading Vital Records and Other Local History Documents in Latin (Thomas K. Edlund) |
| A facility with reading Latin is an immensely valuable skill for any genealogist researching in European records. This workshop summarizes the challenges Latin records present to family historians, and discusses procedures and resources for interpreting Latin documents form the 16th to 20th centuries. |
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