Thursday, February 14, 2013

2013 Brookings Family History Workshop


Welcome to the 

Roots n Branches: Growing Your Family Tree

Brookings Family History Workshop

held April 27, 2013 -- 61 attending


Digging Your Roots....or Transplanting them--The Journey Begins Here


























  Topics Descriptions

  • Growing Your Tree: What Websites are Free at your nearest FHC? 

    Would you believe:
    •  Ancestry.com
    • Find My Past UK 
    • The Genealogist
    • Fold3 Military
    • Alexander Street Press Civil War
    • World Vital Records
    • Godfrey Memorial Library
    • NewspaperArchive.com and Other Unique Databases! 
    • Legacy Stories -- NEW!
    • Personal Historian Software -- NEW!

  • Grafting in New Buds: Genealogy on the IPAD

    IPAD Apps such as 
    •  Family Tree
    • Ancestry App
    • MyHeritage App
    • Families (Legacy-based)
    • RootsMagic
    • BillionGraves

  • Cultivating Your Roots: Three Major Software Comparisons

 
Comparing key features of PC programs (each of which have a free version to download.)

            • RootsMagic
            • Legacy
            • Ancestral Quest





     

     

  • Putting Leaves on Your Tree:  Online Genealogy Research-the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly


Jodi Sides, veteran genealogist will present an overview of researching your family history on the internet. The class will cover websites that contain useful information for genealogists at all levels of experience. We will look at connecting with other researchers through family tree websites, locating documents you can print right from your computer, how to properly network with other researchers, and what websites are worth your time and money.


  •   Discover Your Family Tree:   Intro to Family Tree


  • What is Family Tree, where is it, how can you access it--what can you find?
  • How can you use it to preserve and share your own Family Tree research--with attached photos, sources, stories?
  • How can you search millions of trees? 
  • How can you correct junk genealogy that you find there? 
  • Why should you correct it? 
  •  Growing Your Roots:  5 Minute Genealogy 


How and where can you find a record of your ancestors within the first 5 minutes of searching?

  • Digging Your Roots: Do You Know Where Your Pioneer Ancestors are Buried


    DASH does. DASH stands for Dacota Ancestral Stone Histories. 


    Larry Cool's projects combine the digital mapping of cemeteries, with the databasing of records on findagrave, with the overlaying of the maps on Google earth, with the completion of family records on PAF. This all started as a tribute to his grandmother who started his interest when a young boy by helping her map and record the cemeteries in Charles Mix County. 


  • Due to unforeseen health issue, the speaker just notified us on Thursday that he cannot present this program--we apologize for this change in the program and ask that those of you registered for this program choose another or view the substitute program to be announced.  

    Substitute Program: Google Earth Your Genealogy by Lisa Cook

    Cultivating Your Heritage: Who is Granny Weston

    An 1896 painting of the Native American woman in the Moody County Public Library has puzzled patrons for years as to who she was and why the painting was done. Dianne Ammann had placed an ad in the Brookings Town n Country Shopper looking for information on 3 different Granny Westons, any of which she could be. She was planning on presenting this data at a Genealogy Conference but she died suddenly last fall. Dale Johnson, Director of the Moody County Museum, will trace the story of the Flandreau Santee Sioux from the 1862 Minnesota Uprising until their settlement in Moody County area. Using resources of the Museum and Moody County Genealogy Society, the origin of the painting may have been discovered and the identity of the subject possibly found.


    • Cracking the Nuts on the Tree: Q & A Help Sessions 


      A panel of experienced researchers, including some of the class presenters will be available at one or both sessions to answer questions on various subjects, including internet, computer technology as applied to genealogy, research brick walls, etc






    • Exploring the Old Trunk:  Beginner Help Sessions

      Liz Gorham , president of  Brookings Area Genealogical Society (BAGS) will help show those interested in starting their research or are in the first few generations, how to find, organize, research, document and share family data.


      • Displays, Demos


          Boy Scout Genealogy Merit Badges 
          Chart Your Tree
          Indexing
           DAR (Daughters of American Revolution)



        Sponsored by

        Brookings SD Family History Center

        and

        Brookings Area Genealogical Society