Pinellas Genealogy Society
2018 Seminar |
Saturday, February
24, 2017
Largo Public Library
120 Central Park Dr.
Largo, FL 33771 |
| Schedule and Topics for
the seminar will be: |
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here
for the registration form |
Principal Speaker: Judy Russell |
| 8:00 AM |
Registration; continental
breakfast |
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Judy Russell is a genealogist with a law degree, and is
known as “The Legal Genealogist.” Her purpose, in part, is to help
folks understand the often arcane and even impenetrable legal
concepts and terminology that are so very important to those of us
studying family history. Without under- standing the context in
which events took place and records were created, so much of both
the sig- nificance and the flavor of what happened is missed.
She has a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a political science
minor from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and a
law degree from Rutgers School of Law-Newark.
She has worked as a newspaper reporter, trade association writer,
legal investigator, defense attor- ney, federal prosecutor, law
editor and, for more than 20 years before her retirement in 2014,
she was an adjunct member of the faculty at Rutgers Law School.
Judy has spent the last decade learning her trade as a genealogist,
and holds credentials as a Certified Genealogist® and Certified
Genealogical LecturerSM from the Board for Certification of
Genealogists® where she currently serves as a member of the Board of
Trustees. She is a member of the National Genealogical Society, the
Association of Professional Genealogists, and, among others, the
state genealogical societies of New Jersey, North Carolina,
Virginia, Texas and Illinois.
She has attended the National Institute on Genealogical Research
(predecessor to today's Gen-Fed, the Genealogical In- stitute on
Federal Records) at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and
completed Elizabeth Shown Mills’ course in Advanced Methodology and
Evidence Analysis, and Thomas W. Jones’ course in Writing and
Publishing for Geneal- ogists at the Institute of Genealogy &
Historical Research (IGHR). She now serves on the faculty at IGHR,
the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), the Genealogical
Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP), the Midwest African
American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI), and Gen-Fed.
Judy has written for both the National Genealogical Society
Quarterly, and the National Genealogical Society Magazine, and
lectures on a wide variety of genealogical topics, ranging from
using court records in our family history to under- standing DNA
testing.
For more information and her blog, please click
here.
Additional Information
- The Largo Public Library cosponsors the Pinellas Genealogy Society annual seminar,
and the breakfast is sponsored by the Friends of the Largo Library.
- The annual book sale will be in the rear of the conference room. The tables will be open before the seminar and during break periods.
- A representative of the society and membership information will be available at a table in the lobby.
- Lunch will be provided as part of your advance registration.
- Parking and driving instructions are on the reverse side of this brochure.
- Great door prizes and raffles will be offered throughout the day.
- If you are in need of a place to stay overnight during the seminar, the
Hampton Inn offers a discount. For details, see page
www.flpgs.org/moteloffer.aspx
or our
special
events page
.
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| 8:30 AM |
Opening |
| 9:00 AM |
That First Trip to the Courthouse: If there is
one home truth in genealogy research, it’s this: not everything is
available online. Sooner or later, every genealogist has got to make
that first trip to the courthouse to check out the original records
availa-ble there. How to prepare for that trip, the rules of the
road, what to expect, what to ask for, and how to be sure you’ll be
welcomed back the next time are explored in this lecture.
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| 10:00 AM |
Break |
| 10:20 AM |
No Vitals? No Problem! – Building a Family through
Circumstantial Evidence: When there’s no birth, marriage or
death record, what’s a genealogist to do? Learn how to use
circumstantial evidence to build a family.
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| 11:30 AM |
Lunch |
| 12:30 PM |
Break Out Speakers |
George G Morgan: Principles of Effective
Evidence Analysis
Drew Smith: Organizing Your DNA Testing
See below for break out speaker bios. |
BREAK OUT TOPICS
Principles of Effective Evidence Analysis
It is imperative that we use both traditional and online resources
in our research and work them in tandem. With the volume of
digitized resources growing exponentially each year, our rapid
access to original genealogical records online may flood us with
more information than we can handle. It is easy to rush through the
evidence examination and analysis processes, increasing the probably
that we will miss critical details. It is critical that we take the
time to carefully analyze all the evidence content for clues implied
or suggested. This lecture discusses the principles of highly
effective genealogical evidence analysis and shows examples of
capturing all the clues to expand and improve our research.
Organizing Your DNA Testing
DNA testing has become an essential part of most genealogical
research, but it is very complicated keeping track of the details.
This session will discuss how to manage the testing process for
multiple individuals, how to save DNA data so that it can be
uploaded to other websites, and how to keep track of correspondence
with other DNA testers. |
| 1:30 PM |
Break |
| 1:40 PM |
Where There Is – or Isn’t – a Will:
Where there’s a will, there’s a probate. And often when there isn’t
a will, there’s still a probate. Understanding the process and
finding the records created when our ancestors died can help break
through those brick walls. |
| 2:40 PM |
Break |
| 3:00 PM |
DNA and the Golden Rule: The Law
and Ethics of Genetic Genealogy: Whose permission is needed to test
a child or an adult unable to consent? Who owns our DNA? What can we
disclose about a cousin who has tested? The rules of the road for
the ethical challenges facing genealogists interested in using DNA
evidence as part of their family history research. Learn how
applying the Golden Rule can guide us through many if not most of
the situations in which we as genetic genealogists find ourselves. |
| 4:00 PM |
Closing |
| Location – The seminar will be held in the Jenkins Conference
Room of the Largo Public Library, located at 120 Central Park
Drive, Largo, 33771. Free parking is available in the front lot
of the library. |
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Driving Directions:
From the north: Travel south on US Hwy 19 to SR 686 (East Bay
Dr.) Make a right on East Bay and follow to Largo. Turn left on
Central Park Drive. The Library is on the left side of the road.
From the south: Travel north on I-275 to Exit #30
(Clearwater/Largo SR 686, Roosevelt Blvd. West). At the fork in
the exit ramp bear left which leads to Roosevelt Blvd. Follow on
Roosevelt. At the fork in the road bear left and follow the
overpass that merges with Ulmerton Road (SR688) Follow Ulmerton
past the 2nd traffic light and veer right to SR 686(Roosevelt
Blvd). Follow Roosevelt Blvd / East Bay Drive. |
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for the registration form |
| Break Out Speaker Bios |
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George G. Morgan is
president of Aha! Seminars, Inc., and an internationally recognized
genealogy expert who presents in the U.S., Canada, England, on
cruise ships, and on webinars.
He is the prolific, award-winning author of hundreds of articles for
magazines, journals, newsletters, in genealogical publications, and
at online sites internationally. His twelfth book, the fourth
edition of How to Do Everything: Genealogy, was released in January
2015, and he is co-author of Ad- vanced Genealogy Research
Techniques. He is a regular writer for the Association of
Professional Genealogists Quarterly, Family Tree Magazine, Internet
Genealogy, and Your Genealogy Today. He has won writing awards from
the Association of Professional Genealogists and the International
Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE).
He is a past president of ISFHWE, and has served on the boards of
the Federation of Genealogical
Societies, the Florida State Genealogical Society, the Florida
Genealogical Society (Tampa), and is a member of the Association of
Professional Genealogists, the Genealogical Speakers Guild, and
societies in the U.S. and U.K. |
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Drew Smith is an Associate
Librarian with the USF Tampa Library, and is the 2016 winner of the
Filby Award for Genealogical Librarianship, presented by the
National Genealogical Society.
He is the past president of the Florida Genealogical Society of
Tampa, and has served on the boards of the Federation of
Genealogical Societies, the Association of Professional
Genealogists, and the Florida State Genealogical Society.
He is the host of the Genealogy Connection podcast, and the co-host
of The Genealogy Guys Pod- cast along with George G. Morgan. Drew is
the author of the book Social Networking for Genealo- gists, is the
co-author of Advanced Genealogy Research Techniques, and has written
extensively for several genealogical print and online magazines. His
latest book, Organize Your Genealogy: Strate- gies and Solutions for
Every Researcher, was published in 2016 by Family Tree Books. |
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