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Using Sanborn Maps in Your research

Using Sanborn Maps in Your research

What You Will Learn Maps can be valuable tools for genealogists and historians. They can provide exceptional detail about the neighborhoods, farms, and communities in which our ancestors worked and lived. Some of the most valuable maps for genealogists were produced...
Homespun and Calico: Researching our Foremothers

Homespun and Calico: Researching our Foremothers

What You Will Learn In her most requested presentation, Ms. Lauritzen offers guidelines on where and how to research female ancestors in records created by the women themselves or records created about them. Speaker Peggy Clemens Laurtizen Handout Click here to view...
Quaker Migration into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

Quaker Migration into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

What You Will Learn Quaker groups were a vital element in the valley’s growth and economy. In two sessions, Ms. Lauritzen will focus on Quaker culture and customs, where these immigrant groups came from, and what may have influenced them to stay in Virginia or...
Frankfort Cemetery and Cemetery Preservation

Frankfort Cemetery and Cemetery Preservation

What You Will Learn History of the Frankfort Cemetery Chapel. Short history of important people buried in the Frankfort Cemetery. Kentucky Cemetery laws and how they pertain to descendants. Access to family cemeteries. Best documentation methods. Best stone cleaning...
GovDocs to the Rescue! Debunking an Immigration Myth

GovDocs to the Rescue! Debunking an Immigration Myth

What You Will Learn Many Americans descended from 19th- and 20th-century European immigrants have surnames that are different from the original form: Rogarshevsky has become Rogers, Waldemar has become Walters, etc. Why? Many people have concluded that these names...
Introduction to Kentucky Land Patents Issued After 1815

Introduction to Kentucky Land Patents Issued After 1815

What You Will Learn A discussion of the authorizing warrants for the Tellico, Kentucky Land Warrants, and County Court Order patents series and the process for patenting land in the Jackson Purchase. Speaker Kandie Atkinson Handout Click here to view handout...
Preserving Your Genealogy Legacy

Preserving Your Genealogy Legacy

What You Will Learn Are you organizing them and finding a good method to store them? What about on-line trees and those annoying passwords? The biggest danger to your work is procrastination. As you continue to research, you can start to organize and preserve your...
Tell Your Story – Online Publishing

Tell Your Story – Online Publishing

What You Will Learn Story is at the heart of all we do. Tell your family stories by using on-line publishing companies and those digital family pictures stored in your computer. Create amazing projects that your family will love and you will be proud to share. Publish...