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GENEALOGY PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE

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"Digital Cameras for Genealogist" The digital camera can be one of your most valued research tools. It can help you effectively acquire records and preserve documents, cut your reproduction costs greatly, achieve more with your available time and have more FUN! It need not require a bunch of expensive equipment!

"Naming Children in Colonial New England" This talk is a summary of the ideas found in the many articles and books which have been written on the subject of naming patterns, hortatory names, family names, religious / biblical names, etc in the New England colonies.

"Puritans or Pilgrims - what is the difference" When doing research on the earliest immigrants to Colonial New England, whether your people were Pilgrims or Puritans may make the difference in finding the information you want. This is a really good presentation for the month of November.

SERIES OF 6 CLASSES FOR BEGINNING GENEALOGISTS

This can be done as a series of classes for your group, over a period of time. Can be very effective for a group with a number of beginners.

OR Any of these makes a good stand-along presentation.

"Data Keeping" helps beginners with moving from paper records to record managers. The top programs are described. Both Windows and Mac.

"Census Basics for Beginners" introduces to beginners the important "science" of making use of the different census available, including pitfalls.

"Getting Started with Research" is for those who are just getting started with finding their ancestors and need or want more than can be found in census.

"Sources to Search" is for those getting started and covers searching practices for cemeteries, land records and military records.

"Record Keeping Methods" explores some of the popular methods for keeping order from becoming chaos as our research produces lots of paper to treasurer and store.

"DNA Basics" is for the non-scientists who figure they had better find out what it is people are talking about, anyway.

 

 

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