Monthly Program
Join us for a presentation by Jamie Mayhew
Session 1: Finding your ancestors in Online Newspapers
Newspapers record social events, visits, births, deaths, and news. Using newspapers, you can flesh out the lives of your ancestors with local news, weather, and politics, as well as personal news and information. This class will help you find the newspapers your ancestors read and demonstrate search strategies for locating these crucial records.
Session 2: Its time you started using timelines to organize your research
Timelines are a graphic organizational tool that you can use to structure,
analyze, correlate, and add context to your research into the lives of your
ancestors. Timelines are chronological lists of historical events for people or
places - or - a combination of all of these. Using a timeline will help you to
visualize what happened in the lives of your ancestors and discover missing or conflicting information.
Presenter Bio:
Jamie Lee McManus Mayhew plcgs is a California native with deep Southern U.S. roots — a speaker, family genealogist, genealogical educator, occasional blogger, and professional researcher. She is active in numerous societies and organizations and is President of the APG Writers SIG, a director of the Genealogical Speakers Guild, and a FamilySearch Center leader. She has served as president of the California State Genealogical Alliance, Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and the Genealogical Society of North Orange County California. She holds a BA in Sociology, an MA in Educational Technology, and a Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies (plcgs).
Registration will open this fall.
This program will be recorded and placed in the "Members Only" section.
The public is always welcome!