Texas State Genealogical Society 2024 Family History Conference (Virtual Event)

GenWebinars instructor Diane L. Richard will be giving 3 lectures at the Texas State Genealogical Society 2024 Family History Conference – 1 live and 2 recorded for on-demand playback.  This virtual event will feature TxSGS Live! on Friday and Saturday, November 1-2, 2024, and offer an additional 31 pre-recorded lectures for more than 40 sessions designed to help you discover resources and develop skills to pursue your family history. Registrants will be able to access these recordings through midnight on February 2, 2025.  For more information and to register see https://www.txsgs.org/family-history-conference.

Diane’s Live Lecture

– Follow Your Compass to U.K. Resources and Beyond Benefiting 17th-18th Century U.S., Caribbean Research

Though a trip across the pond would be fun and rewarding, we can explore resources to fill in details of British Colonial Era ancestors without leaving home. Some platforms for doing so are U.S.-created, while others come to us from the U.K. (free and subscription). There has been an explosion in our access to U.K. databases, which is priceless. Let’s discuss several of these Colonial-Era gems as we explore our pre-Revolutionary War era ancestors.

Diane’s On-Demand Lectures

– Free Persons of Color – Some Were Required to Register

In the early 19th century, FPOC rights eroded, and registration requirements ensued. We’ll explore laws and extant records for NC, OH, TN, VA, GA, IN, and more. We’ll navigate the extant records available and explore what information they contain—names, birthplaces, birth years or age, and sometimes even physical descriptions.

– Your Genealogy Research Journey is Not Complete Unless You Explore Scholarly/Academic Resource

Academicians do deep dives into genealogically relevant topics. Most genealogists don’t take advantage of this already-done, FREELY accessible research located on non-genealogical platforms—we should! Whether it’s digitized books, scholarly articles, theses/dissertations, datasets, or more, we benefit from the in-depth research done by non-genealogists into topics relevant to our research. Let’s explore a sampling of these “nerdy” platforms (with examples from the U.S., Canada, and U.K.) that we frequently ignore!