Workshop Descriptions
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through FamilySearch.org
FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use this web site to learn more about their family history. The gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records is worldwide and patrons may freely access our resources at FamilySearch.org, or through over 4,500 family history centers in 70 countries, including the renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through Google
Are You Using the Full Power of Google? Unlock the Hidden Power of Google for Your Genealogy Research! Google is the most powerful tool available worldwide for online research! With over 20 billion pages in Google's index of the Web, it's likely that some of them contain clues about your ancestors. Finding these pages, however, requires an understanding of filtering and other techniques that have never been explained to many computer users — until now! This talk will show you how to tap the full potential of the Internet's most powerful free online service!
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through State Archives
In every state in the United States housed in the state capital is a building where its history is kept in the form of major document collections, usually organized in record groups. In this day and age of the Internet each state has funded a web site that highlights the types of documents available for public use. The purpose of this class is to help you access catalogs, indexes and digitized records for each state.
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through Ancestry.com
Ancestry.com the world's leading resource for online family history. Over the past decade we've digitized, indexed, and made available online more than 4 billion records in thousands of databases. This class will overview the major records viable on Ancestry.com, review the site's searching and tree-building tools, and highlight the newest and best resources to help you successfully find historical records about your ancestors -- and continue to build your family tree.
Family History Training for LDS Leaders
Many new and exciting opportunities are available to help the family history consultants in your wards. This class will give you examples of how to get your members active working on their family history (i.e. Research Wiki for Youth ). We encourage a representative from Bishoprics, EQ Presidencies, HP Groups, and all family history consultants and center directors, as well as stake high councilors, to make themselves available for this presentation.
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through British Isles Online
For those of you who have ancestors in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland this lecture will give details of the top 25+ web sites that will provide you with indexes and online documents for civil registration, parish registers, and many other sources for the British Isles.
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through Footnote.com
This is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past. The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, US Presidents, historical newspapers, naturalization documents, and many more.
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through Cyndislist.com
This is the web site where you can find a categorized and cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet with a card catalog format. This class will assist you in getting the most our of the vast amount of data available to you at your fingertips for finding your ancestors.
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through Our Nation's capital
Three web sites will be discussed in this class: The National Archives, The Library or Congress and The Daughters of the American Revolution Library. Each site offers card catalogs and indexes that will lead you to thousands of record groups of public documents that hold exciting information about your ancestors.
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through World Vital Records (Incl Facebook-We're Related Interface)
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through FamilyLink.com, Inc. is a family of services that includes WorldVitalRecords.com, WebTree.com, WorldHistory.com, and the We’re Related and My Family applications on Facebook. The focus of the company is to provide innovative tools to connect families for which some instruction is needed, and this class will get you on the road to using the web site with great success.
Let Your Fingers Do The Searching Through The Family History Catalog Online
A major part of FamilySearch.org is the catalog of materials (including microfilm, microfiche, and publications) found at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Many items can be loaned to local Family History Centers around the world. This class will teach you to become an expert in using the catalog and how to access materials, including an introduction to online lessons.