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The Genealogy Conference: topics for focused chats

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Genealogy Chat 1st week of Month | Monthly Workshop

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Should we reduce the 100 year privacy rule to something a bit more flexible?

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Weekly Chat: Turning the model upside down | week of 29 July 2016

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Would tags for “event” and/or “residence” be helpful?

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Weekly Chat: DNA Research — the Good, The Bad, The Ugly | week of 15 July 2016

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What makes a question (and its answers) worth sharing?

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Weekly Chat / Challenge: Have you reviewed your research lately?

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Problems with citing profiles from collaborative trees and other non-static websites?

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Brainstorming solutions to grow this site?

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Appropriateness or Level of detail on DNA Genealogy Questions?

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Seeking possibly-living individuals - clarity required

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Why must we be careful in referring to living people?

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How much detail should be included in questions about WW1 and WW2 service members?

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How do we judge that a question might be identifying living individuals?

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Weekly Chat: | What I learned at the 2016 SCGS Genealogy Jamboree | week of 10 Jun 2016

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Will MyHeritage Q&A impact GF&H SE's plans to expand?

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Processing brief generic questions?

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Weekly Chat: Finding hidden records | week of 20 May 2016

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Cleaning up the DNA tags

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Weekly Chat: Organizing your DNA research | week of 13 May 2016

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Steering questions away from unproductive approaches?

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Proving hypotheses to level of Genealogical Proof and similar standards?

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Refining “I'm stuck” posts from newbies?

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On- and off-topic questions: Researching specific ancestors

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Even more tag cleanup: burials and cemeteries

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“Research” tag: define usage guidance or remove?

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What is “Genealogy,” “Family History,” and “Microhistory”?

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Can we improve our pitch to potential users?

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Are you interested in Canadian genealogy and Family History?

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Genealogy Chat week of 25 December 2015 | New Genealogy Toys?

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Genealogy Chat week of 18 December 2015 | Location, Location, Location

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Questions about the New Ancestry transition?

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Genealogy Chat week of 11 December 2015 | Data migration and transitioning to new genealogy software

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Do we want hats? Announcing the 2015 Winter Bash!

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Genealogy Chat week of 13 November 2015 | Finding and analyzing military records

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Genealogy Chat week of 27 November 2015 | Searching Ancestry: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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Genealogy Chat week of 20 November 2015 | New Ancestry: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

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Should Army, Navy and Air Force be synonyms of Military Records tag?

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Genealogy Chat week of 6 November 2015 | Workshop on searching the 1939 Register

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Topic challenge: Making effective use of burial and cemetery records

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Genealogy Chat week of 30 October 2015 | Tales from the graveyard

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Make [headstone] a synonym of [grave-marker]?

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Genealogy Chat week of 23 October 2015 | Using archives and libraries for your family history research

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Topic challenge: Need help with discovering Migration Patterns?

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Better defining the palaeography, transcriptions, translation, language(?) tags?

discussion tags

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problems logging into main site and to chat

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Vote / Discuss: Consolidate New York tags?

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