Class Description
You are welcome to take any course.
The titles are tagged with Begin or Tech or Special Area to help you find the kinds of courses you would like.
We are very excited to include pre-recorded courses from the RootsTech 2014 Conference*, the world's largest genealogy and technology conference. We will preview each one in order to bring you the best, so classes may be changed.
Registering today helps us to plan a better fair. Thank you!
Begin 1 Beginning
Basic Online Resources for the Beginning Genealogist. Learn what is online,effective searching, share information.*
By Lisa Alzo
Begin 2 Beginning
Beginner Bootcamp. Get started the way we all wish we started.
By Dan Tindall
Family 1 Family
Children and Family Trees. Ways to engage children and teens in family history.
By Alicia Cutts
Family 2 Family
Connecting Past, Present, and Future Through Stories Use stories to engage all generations.
Preface for "Tree to Temple" class. * By Heidi Swinton & Tim Cross
Family 3 Family
Putting Family in Family History: Fun Family History Activities. Family History can build living family bonds. Practical activities for family night, reunions, and vacations.*
By Jen Allen
Family4 Family
Storytelling SuperPowers Tap into your own superpowers as well as learn how others are saving their family history.*
By David Adelman
LDS 1 LDS
FamilySearch and Beyond, New Resources for Members. What to do when "your work" has all "been done."*
By Dianne Loosle
LDS 2 LDS
From Tree to Temple Help for LDS church members to get started with family history in familysearch.org.*
By Jim Greene
LDS 3 LDS
My Tree is Full, What Next? Let's consider Descendency Research.
By Lynn Schlick
SA 1 Special Area
African American Research: How is African American Research Different? A study of the unique aspects and opportunities in African American research.
By Donald Debrow
SA 2 Special Area
African American Research: Online Resources Valuable websites for AA research and how to use them.
by Kel Laeger
SA 3 Special Area
Finding Your British Roots. Old World,New Records: findmypast.com as the Key Resource for Tracing British Ancestry*
By Elaine Collins
SA 4 Special Area
Eastern European Research:
Beginning: Finding the village of origin. Essential first step to "crossing the pond."
By David Crider
SA 5 Special Area:
Eastern European Research:
Gazeteers and Maps. Learn to use these tools to find the sources you need.
By David Crider
SA 6 Special Area:
Eastern European Research:
Sources and Languages. Overview of kinds of sources and the language helps for decoding them.
By David Crider
SA8 Special Area
General Knowledge: Respectful Collaboration or When Researches Disagree Careful research processes can be coupled with techniques from established cooperative practices in other fields to work pas disagreements and maintain healthy family history research collaboration.*
By Luther Tychonievich
SA9 Special Area
Hispanic Research 1: For Beginners to Experts. Presentation is in Spanish.
By Liliana Brown
SA10 Special Area
Hispanic Research 2: 5 Essential Resources for Hispanic Genealogy A través de Google Hangout genealogistas de España y Latinoamérica compatirán recouros hispanos imprescindibles.*
By Sonia Meza
SA11 Special Area
Irish Research: Part One: The Irish Emigration Experience
Learn why, from where and where to.
By Pat Coleman
SA12 Special Area
Irish Research: Part Two: Irish History and the Church
By Pat Coleman
SA13 Special Area
Irish Research: Part Three: Irish Record Destruction
What now? Jurisdiction and Collections
By Pat Coleman
SA 17 Special Area
Census Records: Mistakes, Misunderstandings and Misses, Oh My! Learn how Census Records can help and mislead us.
By Donald Debrow
SA15 Special Area
Southern Research: Land Records Learn to find and understand this rich resource with examples from Southern States and using the Central Library.
By John Lanier
SA16 Special Area
Southern Research: How History Affects Your Research Learn to find more sources and more in them by understanding the amazing resources from the War of 1812.
By Yvonne Crumpler
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Youth1 Youth
BSA Merit Badge Earn this badge and learn how to use your computer skills to find your family story and share it.
By Jay Fox
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Youth3 Youth
Beginning Bootcamp The how and why to start searching geared for young people or your skills have a noble purpose.
By Dan Tindall
Note: Most young people have the computer skills to go very far with this most intriguing hunt called family history. They just need the principles of research to take off. All young people should feel free to attend all classes.
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Tech1 Tech
5 Ways to Do Genealogy in Your Sleep Learn to leverage Internet searches, alerts, and messages. Use these tools to multiply your efforts, even while you sleep.*
By Deborah Gamble
Tech2 Tech
A Beginner's Guide to Going Paperless This introduction to digital organization will survey the basics of scanning, formatting, and organizing paper and "born-digital" documents.*
by Randy Whited
Tech4 Tech
Advanced Techniques for The Use of Autosomal DNA Tests to Break rough Genealogical Brick Walls Innovative techniques to analyze your autosomal DNA test results. Concepts such as phasing and triangulation will be introduced. Examples of challenging genealogical research questions that have been solved using autosomal DNA will be given.*
by Tim Janzen
Tech5 Tech
Become an iPad Power User Move beyond apps. Lisa Louise Cooke, author of Turn Your iPad into a Genealogy Powerhouse, shares hacks for customizing your tablet's browsers and bookmarks, app organization and search, accessibility features and Evernote tricks.*
By Lisa Louise Cooke
Tech6 Tech
Effective Database Search Tactics Research success depends on knowing the best way to search each different collection. Boolean, truncation, keyword, fielded data, proximity, phrase, wild cards, and wild words are not foreign terms, but rather your keys to success.*
by Kory Meyerink
Tech7 Tech FamilySearch Family Tree: What's New and What's Next Features which have been added since RootsTech 2013 and how to use them plus a road map of the next coming features.*
by Ron Tanner
Tech8 Tech
FamilySearch Research Wiki The best tool you have missed for your genealogy tool box.
By Paul Boncella
Tech9 Tech
Organizing What You Find: RootsMagic Essentials One way to digitally organize your research using this free software from RootsMagic.
By Bell Woods
Tech10 Tech
Genealogy in the Cloud Learn how to use this incredible technology to backup, collaborate on, and share your family history. Learn how to avoid the problems that can arise from using cloud storage.*
by Randy Hoffman
Tech11 Tech
Getting the Most Out of Ancestry.com Learn the 5 major areas of Ancestry.com and some favorite tools for advancing your research.*
by Christa Cowen
Tech13 Tech
Indexing with FamilySearch Learn why and how to help index the genealogical record collections of Family History Library of Salt Lake City Utah. Every record that can be legally digitized needs to have an index so we can search for them with a computer. Join this huge service project which you can do in your bathrobe and bunny slippers.
by Pam May, Kay Dawn Dortch, Jessie Whittaker
Tech14 Tech Information Overload: Managing Online Searches and Their Results Discover ways to manage online searches and decipher your results. This presentation includes search engines and popular famiy history websites.*
by Josh Taylor
Tech15 Tech
Piecing Together History: Crowd-sourcing Events to Glean the Most Out of the Current Generation A balance of tech and nontech approaches are necessary to reach a generation in transition.*
by Cheri Daniels
Tech16 Tech
ReStart: Getting Back into Family History Research Tools for updating your records and jumping once more into the great search.
by Therese Tuck