Ancestry.com is one of the most popular and valued genealogical tools in the world.  Understanding and maximizing its usefulness, and keeping up with Ancestry’s changing content and format, is essential in order to efficiently search and record your family's history.  In this lecture we will discuss research strategies and Ancestry's new tools to help you become a more effective family researcher.

 

This one-hour program, conducted over Zoom at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, is free for members. This is one of the many activities that is a benefit of JGSGW membership. Instructions for joining the online meeting will be placed under Meeting Info & Links in the Members Only Files. (These files become visible on this website after members sign in.) Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $5.  

 

Speakers: Sydney F. Cruice is a professional genealogy researcher, writer, teacher, and international lecturer with over 25 years of experience. Sydney specializes in the Mid-Atlantic region with an emphasis on military and land records. She has lectured at institutes and conferences including: SLIG, IGHR, IAJGS, IGGP, RFIPA. She is known for her Foundations of Genealogy courses, which she taught at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for over seven years. She now offers these courses independently. Sydney also served as the President of the Association of Professional Genealogists for the Greater Philadelphia Area Chapter for six years. She earned her BA from Pennsylvania State University and her MBA from Drexel University.

This presentation will cover how to explore the expansive holdings and datafiles of the Genealogy Center, how to plan a research trip to Fort Wayne, and how to prepare for attending the 2025 IAJGS Conference in Fort Wayne.

 

This one-hour program, conducted over Zoom at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, is free for members. This is one of the many activities that is a benefit of JGSGW membership. Instructions for joining the online meeting will be placed under Meeting Info & Links in the Members Only Files. (These files become visible on this website after members sign in.) Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $5.  

 

Speakers: Curt Witcher is the Director of Special Collections at the Allen County Public Library, managing the widely acclaimed Genealogy Center as well as the Rolland Center for Lincoln Research. He is a former president of both the Federation of Genealogical Societies and the National Genealogical Society, and the founding president of the Indiana Genealogical Society. Curt currently serves on the Indiana State Historical Records Advisory Board, the Indiana Historical Society’s publications committee, and the executive committee of the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana’s Board of Directors. He also serves on the Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society board of directors as well as an advisor for the African American Genealogical Society of Fort Wayne. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his passion for preserving historical data and making it more accessible to researchers.

Randol Schoenberg suggests that Geni is the best platform for collaborative genealogy, which makes it absolutely the best place to build your family tree. He will discuss how to take your genealogy to the next level using Geni's unique tools.

 

This one-hour program, conducted over Zoom at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, is free for members. This is one of the many activities that is a benefit of JGSGW membership. Instructions for joining the online meeting will be placed under Meeting Info & Links in the Members Only Files. (These files become visible on this website after members sign in.) Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $5.  

 

Speaker: Attorney E. Randol Schoenberg has handled numerous cases involving looted art and the recovery of property stolen by the Nazis, including the successful return of five paintings by Gustav Klimt, as featured in the 2015 film Woman in Gold. Schoenberg graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a certificate in European Cultural Studies and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California. Mr. Schoenberg served as President of Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust from 2005 through 2015, during which time the museum constructed its award-winning new building in Pan Pacific Park.