Ancestry Day
Sponsored by the Midwest Genealogy Center and Ancestry.com, Ancestry Day will be held on March 16, 2013. Ancestry Day will feature workshops taught by Ancestry.com and MGC staff members focusing on all levels of genealogy research. The day will end with a panel discussion on using various research resources to help find your family story.
Attendees are also invited to a special reception at Midwest Genealogy Center on March 15, 2013, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m., to network and meet the Ancestry Day speakers.
Event Currently Full; Waiting List Registration AvailableAncestry Day ScheduleAdams Pointe Conference Center, Blue Springs, Missouri |
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| 8:30 a.m. | Registration Begins |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome |
| 9:15 a.m. | Find them Fast: Searching Secrets to Help You Find Your Ancestors Stories on Ancestry.com, Anne Mitchell |
| Ancestry.com is home to more than 7 billion records in more than 30,000 collections and tools to help you store and organize what you've found. Learn the best way to find what you're looking for and make the most of it with Anne Mitchell. She'll teach you how to make the powerful tools at Ancestry.com work for you to locate your ancestors, discover their stories, and advance your research to the next level. | |
| 10:00 a.m. | Break |
| 10:15 a.m. | Extraordinary Clues in Ordinary Records, Lou Szucs |
| We all need ordinary records to build our family stories: cemetery, census, court, immigration, newspaper, vital records. This presentation will highlight often overlooked clues in those records that can lead to new discoveries. | |
| 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:15 a.m. | Mining Gold at Midwest Genealogy Center, Janice Schultz |
| Start with Ancestry.com and expand your search at the Midwest Genealogy Center. Find out what you can discover at MGC that will enhance the search for your ancestors. | |
| 11:45 a.m. | Lunch |
| 1:15 p.m. | Putting Your Ancestors in Historical Perspective: Extracting Stories from Military Records on Ancestry.com and Fold3, Anne Mitchell |
| Finding your ancestors is Step One. Understanding their lives is Step Two. Military records hold clues that help bring historical events to life and help you understand how those events impacted your ancestors. We will show you read the clues, and use the information to create the story. | |
| 2:00 p.m. | Break |
| 2:15 p.m. | Hidden Treasures at Ancestry.com, Lou Szucs |
| Because of the enormity of the Ancestry.com database, some "hidden" collections don’t always surface quickly in a global search. In addition to describing dozens of examples of "lesser-known" records at Ancestry.com (such as mortality census schedules, records from U.S. Soldiers and Sailors Homes, newspaper abstracts, ethnic collections and church records), this presentation focuses on techniques for locality searching and using the catalog. You will also learn how you can keep up with news of exciting collections being added all the time. | |
| 3:00 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. | Stump the Experts Panel Discussion |
| A panel discussion featuring staff from Midwest Genealogy Center and the Ancestry experts. | |
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