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Columbia County Genealogy Conference 2021: Connecting the Dots: Session Descriptions
FamilySearch (Friday—all day (5 sessions))
FamilySearch has more than:
8.3 billion indexed names
4.3 billion digital images (70% not indexed)
500,000 books online
1.3 billion people in the family tree
Learn how to access and make sense of all these fabulous FREE resources. Laurel Smith will provide an overview of FamilySearch, show you why your family should be in the shared tree, demonstrate a few tools for managing your family in tree, and help you understand ways to access the vast collection of unindexed material waiting for you on this dynamic, updated, and ever-improving site. Prepare to immerse yourself in a day of FamilySearch discoveries in this live demonstration.
1950 Census: What’s in there? (Saturday—all day (5 sessions))
This presentation will give family historians a look at the information on their families that will be available after April 1, 2022. Discussion on questions asked, terms used, how collection was conducted, where to find and much more. Questions and discussion are encouraged.
Library of Congress Genealogy Resources (Saturday: Sessions 1 & 2)
The Library of Congress provides access to many genealogically significant documents and other resources. Learn how to find these goodies and more with three Library of Congress librarians in two integrated sessions.
Was Your Ancestor Truly Gone or Just Hidden Within the Records? (Saturday: Session 3)
Why haven't you found your ancestors in the records? Documents are often hidden from view, with information that is present but concealed, stored in a place or a manner that is unexpected, misspelled, indexed incorrectly, or separated from the other similar records. We'll explore strategies for tracking down these elusive ancestors so that we don't miss a single detail.
Beyond Names and Dates: Filling in the Stories of Our Female Ancestors (Saturday: Session 4)
For most of recorded time, women didn't leave much of a paper trail, but they still have wonderful stories to tell. We'll look at ways in which local history, laws, politics, natural disasters, probate inventories, and other resources can help.
Teasing Out the Story Hidden Behind the Genealogical Facts (Saturday: Session 5)
One of the biggest challenges we face when writing family histories is how to turn the bare facts into tales worthy of being read, but our ancestors were real people, not just names, dates and places. We’ll explore four different approaches that can help us to understand them in the context of the time and place in which they lived, and to look for unexpected clues in the information we’ve already gathered. By digging deeply into the genealogical details, we can bring our ancestors' stories to life.
