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Spring Conference: Bringing Your Family History to Life [27 Apr 2024]
April 27 @ 9:50 am – 3:50 pm
Join us for the Spring 2024 virtual conference with four well-known speakers: Judy G. Russell, Gayle Jessup White, Sara Gredler, and Michael Lacopo.
Join links and the link to download the syllabus will be sent to the email you registered with on 25 April 2024. Test your system at https://support.goto.com/webinar/system-check-attendee before conference day to make sure GoToWebinar will work on your device.
If you can’t join us on conference day, recordings are available for 60 days. The recording link will be emailed to all registered participants when the recordings become available.
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Member price: $32; Guest price: $40
All times are Eastern Time.
| 9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Opening Remarks and Welcome |
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Putting Those Records to Work Judy G. Russell, CG®, CGLSM Every document we locate in genealogical research has its clear use: a census record will help us identify family members and trace them over time; a court record will tell us what was happening with that person at that time; a will or probate record will help recreate a family at a specific point in time. But every document we locate can be mined-directly or in combination with other records-for more: a deeper richer context for our family members and their place and time. |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. | BREAK |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Reclaiming Our History Gayle Jessup White |
| 12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | LUNCH |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:25 p.m. | VGS Annual Meeting |
| 1:25 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | BREAK |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | She Did What? Putting Your Ancestor in Historic Context Sara Gredler, CG®, AG® Sara discusses how to research and document your ancestors beyond vital records and relationships. In ways that help discover more about their lives. It weaves those broad historic themes and conflicts (war, disease, etc.) with everyday life. Without specific documents surviving to the present, we can only do so much to think about how our ancestors lived. Even when specific documents survive, we need historic context to show us why and how those records were created. Historic contexts help us fill in those gaps. |
| 2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | BREAK |
| 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | She Came from Nowhere Michael D. Lacopo, DVM This lecture illustrates the joys and pitfalls of Virginia research as well as employing a problem-solving approach utilizing social history, female research, and family analysis to identify the parents of Elizabeth Stith, the ancestor “from nowhere.” One need not have Virginia ancestors to see the Genealogical Proof Standard at work! |
| 3:45 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. | Closing Remarks |