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Organizing Your Genealogy Research with Kelli Bergheimer
Virtual Genealogy Event
2020-10-17 10:30:00
2020-10-17 13:00:00
America/New_York
Organizing Your Genealogy Research with Kelli Bergheimer
Learn how to organize your family history research and to develop strategies to build robust family trees with genealogy software. Register to receive a Zoom link. Free.
Zoom presentation -
Saturday, October 17
10:30am - 1:00pm
Learn how to organize your family history research and to develop strategies to build robust family trees with genealogy software. Register to receive a Zoom link. Free.
Join us with national genealogy speaker, Kelli Bergheimer, in this virtual genealogy event as she presents two instructive sessions that will help you with your genealogy research:
Organization and Citation for the Family Historian
Learn about genealogical citations and how to build a road map back to where you found information. Learn tips and tricks to organize your papers, photos, documents research, DNA cousins, research trips, and digital records. Learn some common backup tools to protect what you have acquired. Organize yourself in a way that leaves you more time for the fun stuff of genealogy--sharing, publishing, and finding even more!
Family Tree Software Options
Learn strategies to build a robust, portable, sourced, cloud-synchronized digital tree. Learn about privacy options and how to backup your tree to prevent losing everything. Learn strategies to maximize your DNA information-messaging matches, sharing trees, and how to use surname message boards. Several popular family tree software options will be discussed including Family Tree Maker software and RootsMagic.
Kelli Bergheimer is a writer, teacher, editor, and national genealogical speaker. She holds an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction and an M.B.A. Kelli runs two small businesses-Geo-Centric Learning and Mess on the Desk, a genealogical organization company with an accompanying blog, YouTube channel, and online store. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, International Society of Genetic Genealogy, and the Genealogical Speakers Guild.
This event is brought to you courtesy of the Special Collections Division with support from the Summit County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society.
This program will be presented on Zoom.
You will receive an e-mail with the participation weblink 1 day before the program. Please contact Special Collections if you are unable to attend at speccollections@akronlibrary.org.
If you do not have an email address, please contact Special Collections at 330-643-9030 to learn how to participate by phone.
A webcam and microphone may be necessary to participate fully in this interactive event. If you have one or neither of these, you participation may be limited.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Virtual Program | Genealogy |
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