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Please choose only one of the following sessions being presented at 9:30AM.

Discover how to use the FamilySearch Catalog to access billions of global records—many not yet indexed. Learn to locate valuable documents through the Catalog in Family Search, this powerful tool will expand your family lines more quickly, gaining insights beyond what indexed records alone can provide.

How to sign on to FamilySearch.org and start filling in your own part of the tree. Three ways to add sources to individual details. Touring the features of the home and person pages of FamilySearch.org. Philosophical comparison between FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.com. Brief overview of the “getting involved” and “activities” on the home screen.

Connect with your Italian ancestors through millions of Italian records available through Familysearch.org. Learn how to locate records particular to your ancestry, find pertinent information contained in those records even if you don't read Italian, to use them to find their preceding generations, and attach those records to the people on your family tree

Let us show you how to connect families through merging process to correct relationship errors, such as duplicates, if a person doesn't belong in the family, or wrong parent/child relationships. It's an easy fix, but don't worry even if you make a mistake trying to merge, it can still be undone and corrected.

Please choose only one of the following sessions being presented at 10:30AM.

Discover how to use the FamilySearch Catalog to access billions of global records—many not yet indexed. Learn to locate valuable documents through the Catalog in Family Search, this powerful tool will expand your family lines more quickly, gaining insights beyond what indexed records alone can provide.

Review the three ways to add sources. Discuss some advanced search options such as the Family History Catalog, Gemini, etc. Using AI in research. Put Family Tree on your cell phone. Adding “Record Seek “as a tool to add sources to Family Search from other non-Family Search web.

This presentation introduces DNA as the genetic blueprint, explains inheritance from ancestors, and outlines Y-DNA, mtDNA, X, and autosomal tests and who can take them. It compares major testing companies and uses real-world examples to show how DNA testing uncovers ancestry, relationships, and genetic traits for genealogy enthusiasts.

Please choose only one of the following sessions being presented at 11:30AM.

This class is designed to give you a basic start for gathering information, setting up a family tree, searching records to provide you with hints to document your research as you go, how to review and save hints that become your documents for your tree, familiarize you with the most informative databases, and how to save information to other family trees in databases such as Family Search.

This is your opportunity to ask your questions about anything Family Search. Just send your questions to me at

sfcquestions@yahoo.com

no later than April 10th and we will discuss the most asked questions in class!

Disaster Proofing Your Genealogy explores how natural and manmade disasters threaten unique family history materials. Learn practical steps to prevent damage, protect records at home, plan ahead, and salvage heirlooms and research materials after a disaster.

Lunch served
Grace Given by Terry Sandeen
Relative Finder with Connie Bornemann
You must have Family Search installed on you phone prior to this event

AI Tools for Genealogy with Henry Stish
America 250 with Carol Briant
Farwell/Thank You with Lorri Sandeen
(There will be a short break during this session)