Name: Webinar – The WPA Era: Free Records Boon from the Government with Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA [9 Apr 2025]
Start: 2025-04-09T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-04-09T20:00:00-04:00

August 2024
VGS Webinar: Research Plan Writing – Tools to Stay Focused (and Realistic) in your Virginia Research with Kelly L. McMahon, CG®

August 14, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Register at https://tinyurl.com/VGSAugust2024 Join Kelly as she helps walk you through the steps to draft a solid research plan to keep you on-task as you complete your research. This workshop will cover the following topics: How to create (and use?) your own research journalEffective research goalsAssessing prior research/known facts about an ancestorNavigating potential issues with ... Read more

FREE
October 2024
VGS Fall Conference 2024

October 18, 2024 @ 9:45 am - October 19, 2024 @ 3:20 pm

Virtual via Zoom

ZOOM in for two days,18-19 Oct 2024, of immersive Virginia genealogy, sponsored by the Virginia Genealogical Society.
December 2024
Webinar: I Can’t Tell a Lie with anecdotes about George Washington with Jim Bish [11 Dec 2024]

December 11, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

James "Jim" Bish is the author of I Can't Tell a Lie: Parson Weems and the Truth about George Washington's Cherry Tree, Prayer at Valley Forge, and Other Anecdotes. He grew to adulthood on a cattle and horse ranch in Nebraska where at an early age he was fascinated with stories from his grandmother about ... Read more
February 2025
Webinar [12 Feb 2025] – Solving a Virginia Mystery Using DNA with Paula Williams

February 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Family lore tells a different story than the records for the paternity of a southwest Virginia great-grandfather. Learn how DNA helps solve the mystery! Paula is a professional genealogist who has been researching for more than two decades in primarily southern US states and has been using DNA to solve problems for more than a ... Read more
April 2025
Webinar – The WPA Era: Free Records Boon from the Government with Paula Stuart-Warren, CG, FMGS, FUGA [9 Apr 2025]

April 9, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

During tough economic times in the 1930s and 1940s, government programs put many people to work. The Works Progress/Work Projects Administration and the Historical Records Survey created a goldmine of material useful for today's genealogists all across the U.S. WPA record transcriptions, courthouse and manuscript inventories, vital records indexes, city/county histories, and histories of businesses ... Read more

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