Workshop Schedule

These workshops will give you a “hands-on” experience to practice the skills you are learning. Each workshop is taught by experienced genealogists, and in the case of the DNA workshop, a well-known genetic genealogist. In these workshops, you will receive personalized help and leave motivated to continue your research. PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP OR TABLET TO THESE WORKSHOPS. The cost is $20 for each Workshop.

10:00 AM – 10:50 AM

Unlocking Your Family’s Story: Using FamilySearch “Memories”

This Workshop includes a step-by-step guide to archiving your photos, stories, documents, and audio clips in "Memories" for safekeeping and for your family to enjoy now and in the future.
Dr. Rochell McWhorter & Bethany Jensen

11:00 AM – 12:30 PM

Generational Genealogy for Beginners

A New Twist for Budding Researchers! This is a workshop where you will start from the very beginning. You can have "zero" experience and this is the class for you. Or, you want to start again and learn the right way how to find your ancestors!
Tina McGuffin, Professional Genetic Genealogist

2:00 PM – 2:50 PM

Taken an AncestryDNA Test Already? Learn How to Use Thru-Lines & Other Tools

Maximize your AncestryDNA results by taking this “hands-on”Workshop. Be prepared to learn these tools, so have your laptop andyour Ancestry user name and password ready.
Patti Huff Williams, Professional Genetic Genealogist

3:00 pm - 3:50 pm

Searching Newspapers: Tips, Tricks, Sites and Context Workshop

Up-to-date tips, tricks, and techniques using newspapers in our research. Case examples are included as to the value of newspapers in our research as well as online search of a variety of free newspaper search sites. This Workshop will instruct and entertain every researcher.
Patti Gillespie, Professional Genetic Genealogist

WILL YOU BE COMING?

Please join us for this opportunity to attend these LIVE sessions, in-person, to meet these AMAZING speakers who are coming from all over to be here with YOU!