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My Speaking Schedule

2008:Apr-Jun Jul-Sep Oct-Dec
2009: Jan-Mar Apr-Jun

27-29 June 2008 Burbank, CA Airport Marriott Hotel and Convention Center SCGS "Jamboree"

My topics:
Friday 1:30 to 2:30 pm American Church Records: How to Locate, Search, and Use the many kinds of church records available in print, on microfilm, on CD-Rom, and on the internet. Religious belief dictates the records kept and preserved by congregations. This session will show how to search these records for hard-to-find ancestors–a NEW research strategy and how to use “internal evidence links” to trace and prove family relationships.

Saturday 9:30 to 10:30 am Tracing a Southern Pedigree: NEW search strategies in little-known and overlooked sources to help you by-pass burned courthouses, gaps in vital records, and ancestors always on the move. Also discussed new finding aids, state-wide indexes, and special research projects that enable you to locate where your ancestors settled: VA into NC, TN, KY, AR and on to California.

Saturday 11:00 to 12:00 pm Tracing Your Revolutionary War Ancestors: Traditional Sources like DAR applications and patriots, pension and service records have new access. Newly discovered records that detail military service 1775-1782 like files of military hospitals and prison ships, rejection rolls, petitions submitted to the Continental Congress–where are these records, how do you search them? Also included: mercenaries who supplemented the troops–Hessians, French, British, and Canadian patriots, “Black Watch,” enlightened Loyalists–where are their records?

Saturday 4:30 to 5:30 pm British Migration to America Before 1850: Documenting “original” settlers to New England, New Netherlands, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Special attention is focused on the Irish, the German, the “brides,” the indentured servants, and British-sponsored religious migrations. Special immigration projects will be highlighted.

Sunday 1:30 to 2:30 pm Solving Tough Problems with Cemetery Records: family relationships, migration patterns, occupations, economic status, naming patterns, and national origins–these and more emerge from cemeteries and their evidence. This session includes a colored slide presentation on ethnic cemeteries which I shot shot on location.

19-20 September 2008 Salt Lake City UT - Family History Expo. Sponsored by My Ancestors Found.

27 Sep 2008 Moorhead MN - 33rd Annual Genealogy Conference, Minnesota Heritage Education Commission, Minnesota State University, Box 82, Moorhead MN 56563. http://www.mnstate.edu/heritage Details coming.

4-31 October 2008 - tentative dates fall research trip Do you want research done on this trip? In order to plan where we are going, you need to let me know as soon as possible. Email me now with subject of 2008 Fall Trip

11 October 2008 Dodge City, KS - 50th Anniversary Genealogy Conference, Kansas Genealogical Society, Dodge City KS 67841. Location: USD #443 Learning Center, 308 Frontview, in Dodge City from 9:00am-2:45pm. Register at http://www.dodgecity.net/kgs/

My topics:
1. Genealogy Evidence: How do I know my records are accurate? How can I determine who is the right ancestors, given more than one choice? Collecting, compiling, matching evidence correctly so that your records are both documented and proven. Also discussed: resolving discrepancies, “slips of the tongue” evidence, family traditions, and how to by-pass record-source failure. We will also examine why it is important to chart your records as you research. Don’t let anyone sub-prime your genealogy!

2. Is Your Genealogy Already Compiled? If you do a careful “survey” of what is already known about your ancestors and often in print, you can save up t 150 hours of tedious research. Locating and using family histories, genealogies, compiled biographies, autobiographies and autobiographical details in original sources, “first settler collections,” and other narrative sources will pay rich dividends for the time spent. Also covered gallows confessions, courtroom biographies, slave narratives, and captive accounts. Break your losing streak!

3. American Church Records: How to Locate, Search, and Use the many kinds of church records available in print, on microfilm, on CD-Rom, and on the internet. Religious belief dictates the records kept and preserved by congregations. This session will show how to search these records for hard-to-find ancestors–a NEW research strategy and how to use “internal evidence links” to trace and prove family relationships.

14-15 November 2008 Mesa AZ - Family History Expo Mesa Convention Center, 263 N Center St, Mesa AZ. I will be speaking at 4 sessions Sponsored by My Ancestors Found.

17-22 November 2008 Salt Lake City UT - Family History Library Research Retreat. Sponsored by My Ancestors Found.

27-28 February 2009 St George UT - Family History Expo, 2008 St George Utah. Dixie Conference Center, 1835 Convention Center Drive, St George UT. I am giving the Keynote address: Family History for Fun and Profit! Co-sponsored by FamilySearch.org and My Ancestors Found.

20-25 April 2009 Salt Lake City UT - Family History Library Research Retreat. Sponsored by My Ancestors Found.

16 May 2009 Logan UT - Family History Expo, Eccles Conference Center 5005 Old Main Hill on the campus of Utah State University. Sponsored by My Ancestors Found.