Genealogical inclusion: not everyone has children; not everyone is short; are you leaving out some genealogy family and friends?

Genealogy is a pretty inclusive topic but not 100%. Maybe someday it will be. Audiences and presenters at classes, seminars, conferences, and institutes are made of up tall, short, skinny, wider, white, red, brown, black, gay, straight, transgender, married, single, divorced, widowed, adopted, fostered, cousins, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, nieces, nephews, men, women, aunts, uncles, […]

Top Ten Reasons to Sign Up For This Acclaimed Intermediate Level Genealogy Course at GRIP

This summer I get to teach an intermediate level genealogy course twice. Even better, I have wonderful co-instructors to help me. We bring many years of experience, knowledge, and teaching to the course. What’s the course you ask? Intermediate Genealogy: Tools for Digging Deeper at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP). I have been coordinating […]

Online & On Track: Railroad Indexes and Finding Aids on the Internet (Webinar)

“Learn about online personnel and payroll records, indexes, books, railroad employee and union magazine indexes, inventories of railroad records, indexes of insurance claims, identified photographs of people, trains, and stations, architectural drawings, and links to other free websites and finding aids. Some of these lists give a person’s name, birth date and place, railroad jobs […]

Family Tree University Spring Virtual Conference: Join in for my keynote presentation

2018 Spring Virtual Conference from Family Tree University: Get the Skills to Break Down Your Brick Walls “With 15 presentations, a live keynote and Q&As, this 3-day virtual conference is designed to help you maximize your research time. By the end of those 3 days, you’ll be ready to combine new skills and resources to […]

Findmypast joins with Twile

News from Findmypast and Twile “Creators of the visual family history timeline and winner of two RootsTech innovation awards, Twile have joined the Findmypast family. And we’re just a little bit excited to finally be able to announce the good news! This acquisition reflects our drive to innovate and enhance the family history experience by […]

It’s almost here! 1 day left till GRIP genealogy courses registration opens

That’s it – just one day left. Actually, less than a full day till online registration begins for each of the three weeks of education near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and Buffalo, New York. Read my February 11th blog post below for more details, especially on the intermediate level genealogy course I coordinate. It’s a great way […]