The annual conference (Saturday, April 16th) will feature eight sessions on two tracks with speakers Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, CG, and Jen Baldwin. Librarians, please note that all sessions have been approved for LEUs or TLEUs.
Jeanne Larzalere Bloom, CG, is a full-time professional researcher specializing in Chicago and Cook County research, problem solving, and multi-generational family histories. She conducts research projects for government agencies, attorneys, authors, newspapers, heir-search firms, professional genealogists, and family researchers. Jeanne will be discussing:
- Session A: Miracles, Mysteries & Mayhem: Online Family Trees [1 TLEU]. We want to build on the research of others but those online family trees often contain miracles, mysteries and mayhem. Does the tree need to be pruned? Learn effective techniques to determine if branches on a tree are diseased or if they are healthy.
- Session C: The Art of Negative-Space Research: Women [1 LEU]. Like using negative space in art, the successful identification of women is often accomplished by using the records of friends and family.
- Session E: You're Not in Kansas Anymore: Essential Resources for Urban-Area Research [1 LEU]. Urban-area research is challenging but not impossible. Begin with what you KNOW. Determine the GOAL. Develop a Research Plan. The successful researcher needs to understand what records are available and where those records might be located.
- Session G: Bringing Life to Our Ancestors: Manuscript Collections [1 LEU]. Learn how to locate and how to use manuscript collections. Case studies show how these underutilized collections can bring an ancestor to life.
Jen Baldwin is is a blogger, writer, genealogist, family historian, wife, and mother with a passion for genealogy. She is the owner, genealogist and family historian at Ancestral Journeys, a genealogical research company located in Breckenridge, Colorado. Jen says that she is “telling the story of the Rockies, one person at a time.” Jen's sessions, sponsored by the Allen County Genealogical Society and the Doug and Joni Lehman Charitable Foundation, are:
- Session B: Being More than Social on Social Media [1 TLEU]. A good social media plan will go a long way toward promoting your family history research, genealogy society, or business. Understanding how to put that plan together, however, is a bit more than just being “friendly” on Facebook.
- Session D: Paperless Genealogy: Eliminating the Binders, File Cabinets and PostIt Notes [1 TLEU]. Have you ever found yourself in a library or archive only to be without that one essential document you need to evaluate a new piece of evidence? Going paperless can solve that problem, and allow you to take every shred of your research with you in mobile form… but how do you actually accomplish this seemingly overwhelming task?
- Session F: Preserving Your Personal Archives [1 TLEU]. The technology we need to digitize our family collections is all around us, and it can be stunningly simple. Take away easy-to-apply methods, great hacks for getting the job done, and action items you can start on today!
- Session H: Go Back to School: Utilizing University Resources [1 LEU]. The local college or university can be one of your best tools for family history research. What they offer, how they are interconnected and how you can access these materials will all be covered in this lecture, as well as examples of using some of the unexpected or untraditional genealogical resources.
Registration for this all-day conference is $45 ($35 for IGS members before April 4th). For more information, or to register online, visit: http://www.IndianaAncestors.org