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genealogy webinars
GenWebinars instructors David M. McCorkle and Diane L. Richard will be giving a total of 4 lectures online followed by live Q&A at the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS) National Conference. The 3 day conference theme is "Fighting Erasure: Staying Visible by Keeping African American Genealogy and History in Focus."
Reconstruct historical communities by following land ownership over time. Records can be traced backwards from today, forwards from the original owner, and points in between.
Hit a brick wall? Wondering why your ancestors did what they did? Need to separate out several same-named contemporaries? Learn about timelines/matrices and how they might help you solve your puzzles.
Even before the pandemic, we started to see a plethora of “crowdsourced” projects focused on indexing records that benefit genealogists. Crowdsourcing is based on “many hands make light work.” Learn about the many places where you can discover what is being transcribed, access that material, and possibly help make these records available to genealogists. The talk includes a quick survey of some of the larger crowdsourced platforms (e.g., From the Page) and some currently active projects that genealogists can definitely leverage.