Program Schedule & Speakers
Friday
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6:00 pm
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Doors open to the Teresa Sargent Hall
(to access, please use the south entrance)
The workshop is open to everyone. Please pre-register ›
Thank you to Co-Chairs Gail Schau & Jean Gray; Committee Members Al Bromling, Maxine Maxwell, Ed Hall; Library Associate Fran Bartolotta; & branch members who made this a successful workshop. **No food or refreshments will be served.**
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6:30 – 7:30 pm
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Canada's National Treasure — Lyn Meehan Don’t know where to begin with your Canadian research? Unlock the uncertainties. This presentation electronically introduces you to the Library and Archive Canada (LAC) collections. Learn as Lyn virtually navigates through this website, tantalizing you to an endless variety of federal Canadian resources: censuses, land records, immigration and naturalization information, military records, photographs, along with a greater wealth of knowledge that will benefit genealogists in their heritage quest.
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7:40 – 8:40 pm
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Tips and Tricks to Searching on Ancestry's Website — Deanna Bullock
Ancestry.com is a dominate website in the family history and genealogical research community because of its vast record collections, excellent search functions and its highly accurate hinting features. This session will focus specifically on searching Ancestry.com's record collections to further your research. Learn how to find specific record collections, how to search both broadly and more narrowly. What the suggestions on the sidebar mean and how to attach found records in your tree in Ancestry. |
Saturday
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9:00 am (Open)
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Doors open to the Rotary Community Room
(to access, please the library's north entrance)
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9:30 am
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Welcome and Introduction
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9:45 – 11:00am
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Finding the Ancestral Trail: Immigration and Migration — Lyn Meehan
Puzzled about where to begin? Strip away your fears. Narrow down the possibilities by exploring ‘the out of the ordinary lists’, local histories, biographies, and bizarre record sets. Learn as Lyn shows you how to tap into foreign databases; consult maps and interlibrary loan print and microfilm material. A short bibliography of suggested reading material and ideas to further your research will be discussed. |
11:00 – 11:15 am
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Morning Break
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11:15 – 12:30 pm
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FamilySearch, Session 1 — Deanna Bullock FamilySearch is a powerhouse in the world of genealogy and family history research. And its resources are free to use. This first session will focus on the wiki based one world Family Tree, how to create your branch of the tree, add to it or edit it. We will also cover finding records within FamilySearch's billions of records and attaching them as sources to your branch of the tree.
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12:30 – 1:00 pm
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**A free light lunch will be provided, or you can bring your own and network over the noon break. Complimentary coffee, tea and water will be available throughout the day.**
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1:00 – 1:30 pm
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How Archives Can Assist the Genealogist — Josephine Sallis (1) Types of materials, content and coverage at the SPRA, (2) types of records: archival, library and reference files, and (3) basic finding aids and how to read them. |
1:40 – 2:40 pm
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Irish Resources : Locating Your Tools! — Lyn Meehan Irish genealogy can be challenging! To master it, family historians first need to understand the nature and lasting effects of key events in Ireland's history. After suffering the ravages of civil war, priceless legal and historical records were lost in the permanent destruction of Dublin's Public Record Office. Whether starting an Irish genealogical library or researching your family tree, join Lyn Meehan and acquaint yourself with books, periodicals, maps and electronic resources that will help you overcome the hurdles imposed by such tragic loss. |
2:45 – 3:00 pm
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Afternoon Break |
3:00 – 4:00 pm
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FamilySearch, Session 2 — Deanna Bullock FamilySearch is so much more than a one world tree. This session will focus on learning how to use the Catalogue, the Research Wiki and Record Search. We will also review how to add memories of photos, documents and stories to your ancestors in the FamilyTree.
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4:00 – 4:30 pm
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Door Prizes RULES: All prizes donated will be awarded throughout the conference/workshop and attendees must be present to win. Prize donations may come in the form of books, gift certificates for services, membership subscriptions, DNA kits, software, thumb drives, etc. Unclaimed Door Prizes will be redrawn. |
5:00 pm |
Room Closes |
Speaker Biographies
Deanna Bullock — Cochrane FHC Director Biography Deanna Bullock stumbled into her passion of family history research as a teenager when she saw her mother struggling to figure out a dos based family history program so she could research their maternal Hungarian ancestors. As a teenager Deanna decided she could figure it out and she did thereby unwittingly putting herself in the position of de facto genealogist for her family. Deanna Bullock received her Bachelor of Arts in Family History from Brigham Young University in Utah, and a Master of Arts in History with a specialty in Social History from the University of Alberta. She is currently the director of the Cochrane Family History Centre and teaches classes and conference workshops throughout Western Canada. |
Lyn Meehan — Professional Genealogist Biography Family historian and genealogy consultant, popular lecturer and retired library reference specialist, Lyn Meehan has worked in public, academic, government and historical library environments worldwide. Currently, Lyn is a team member and the sole genealogist for Canada’s Casualty Identification Program with the DHH and Department of National Defence. Her role in this ten-member team, is to research fallen WWI, WWII and Korean soldiers and locate living family members. Lyn’s thirty-five years of professional and anecdotal experience combine for insightful search strategies and an arsenal of tactics that will benefit genealogists of all levels. Visit Lyn at www.lynmeehan.com |
Josephine Sallis — South Peace Regional Archivist
Biography A former member of the Canadian Air Force Reserves, Josephine earned her Masters of Archival Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Over the years, Josephine has worked at several institutions: an internship at the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, project and volunteer archivist at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, curator for the Copperbelt Railway and Mining Museum, Statement Gathering Archivist for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as several research projects. Josephine left her home in Winnipeg two and half years ago to become the archivist at the South Peace Regional Archives. |