BYU Conference on Family History & Genealogy 2012
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<str<strong>on</strong>g>BYU</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>C<strong>on</strong>ference</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> & <strong>Genealogy</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Tuesday, July 31 st<br />
8:30 – 9:30 Plenary Speaker: Richard E. Turley Jr.<br />
Tracks<br />
9:45 – 10:45<br />
11:00 – 12:00<br />
Hands-On<br />
Workshops<br />
Warren Bittner<br />
German Gothic<br />
Handwriting<br />
Workshop<br />
JFSB 1031<br />
Methodology U.S. Research<br />
David Ouimette<br />
But She Died in<br />
Upstate New York<br />
in the 1850s – How<br />
Can I Identify Her<br />
Parents?<br />
Karen Clifford<br />
C<strong>on</strong>cept to<br />
C<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong>s – It’s<br />
Magical<br />
James Beidler<br />
Beginning a Search<br />
for Pennsylvania<br />
Roots<br />
Diane Van Skiver<br />
Gagel<br />
Gateway to the<br />
West: Researching<br />
in Ohio<br />
Internati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
Research<br />
Roger Minert<br />
Communicating with<br />
Agencies and<br />
Individuals in<br />
Europe<br />
Peggy Ryskamp<br />
Who Made the<br />
Bread?<br />
Rec<strong>on</strong>structing Life<br />
in Your European<br />
Ancestral<br />
Hometown<br />
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch<br />
1:30 – 2:30<br />
2:45 – 3:45<br />
4:00 – 5:00<br />
Rebecca Smith,<br />
Noel Coleman,<br />
Hannah Allan<br />
Building a<br />
<strong>Genealogy</strong> Website<br />
Workshop<br />
JFSB 1031<br />
Ugo Perego<br />
DNA: The Biological<br />
Tie That Binds<br />
Families<br />
Ugo Perego<br />
DNA Research for<br />
Genealogists:<br />
Bey<strong>on</strong>d the Basics<br />
Warren Bittner<br />
Fitting the Pieces<br />
Together: A Case<br />
Study in City<br />
Research<br />
James Beidler<br />
Philadelphia<br />
Research:<br />
Repositories and<br />
Records<br />
Karen Clifford<br />
Unique Mountain<br />
West Sources and<br />
Research Methods<br />
Kory Meyerink<br />
New Jersey: Hidden<br />
Sources for Elusive<br />
Ancestors<br />
George Ryskamp<br />
C<strong>on</strong>fr<strong>on</strong>ting<br />
Complex<br />
Evidentiary Issues<br />
in C<strong>on</strong>tinental<br />
Europe<br />
Ruth Merriman<br />
Reading Church<br />
Records in Latin<br />
George Ryskamp<br />
Civil Registrati<strong>on</strong><br />
Records in Europe<br />
Immigrati<strong>on</strong> to<br />
America<br />
George Ryskamp<br />
From Emigrants to<br />
Immigrants: Your<br />
<strong>Family</strong>’s Passage<br />
from the Ancestral<br />
Home to a New<br />
World<br />
Hannah Z. Allan<br />
C<strong>on</strong>necting English<br />
Immigrants with the<br />
Old Country<br />
David Ouimette<br />
From Wojtowa to<br />
Chicopee: Chain<br />
Migrati<strong>on</strong> of Polish<br />
Immigrants<br />
Diane Van Skiver<br />
Gagel<br />
The Irish Diaspora:<br />
The Famine Irish in<br />
America<br />
James Beidler<br />
Germany to<br />
America: 18 th<br />
Century Odyssey<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
Compatible<br />
Bruce Buzbee<br />
Publishing a<br />
Complete <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> with<br />
RootsMagic<br />
Geoff Rasmussen<br />
Using Legacy as a<br />
<strong>Genealogy</strong><br />
Database<br />
Gayl<strong>on</strong> Findlay<br />
Using Ancestral<br />
Quest as a<br />
<strong>Genealogy</strong><br />
Database<br />
Bruce Buzbee<br />
Using RootsMagic<br />
as a Research Tool<br />
Geoff Rasmussen<br />
Using Legacy as a<br />
Research Tool<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
C<strong>on</strong>sultants<br />
Shipley Muns<strong>on</strong><br />
Priesthood Support<br />
for <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Jim Greene<br />
The Role of the<br />
C<strong>on</strong>sultant<br />
Panel Discussi<strong>on</strong><br />
I’m in the Home,<br />
Now What?<br />
Jim Greene<br />
‘To Turn the Hearts’<br />
and Other Videos<br />
Cynthia Doxey<br />
Green, Rachael<br />
Hiatt<br />
What I Wish I Knew<br />
Before I Accepted<br />
the Call: A FH<br />
C<strong>on</strong>sultant’s<br />
Survival Guide
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Wednesday, August 1 st<br />
8:30 – 9:30 Plenary Speaker: John Titford<br />
Tracks<br />
9:45 – 10:45<br />
11:00 – 12:00<br />
Online <strong>Family</strong><br />
Trees<br />
R<strong>on</strong> Tanner<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Tree<br />
Echo King<br />
Ancestry.com<br />
Online <strong>Family</strong> Trees<br />
Methodology U.S. Research<br />
Hannah Z. Allan<br />
Filling and Breaking<br />
Roadblocks with<br />
<strong>History</strong><br />
Loretta Evans<br />
Making Educated<br />
Guesses –<br />
Analyzing Your<br />
Pedigree<br />
Elizabeth Snow<br />
U.S. State<br />
Censuses: How to<br />
Find and Use<br />
Diane Van Skiver<br />
Gagel<br />
My Father’s War: A<br />
Case Study in<br />
World War II<br />
Research<br />
British Isles<br />
Research<br />
Judy Wight<br />
The Three Cs of<br />
Irish Research<br />
Claire Briss<strong>on</strong>-<br />
Banks<br />
Scotland Research<br />
Strategies<br />
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch<br />
1:30 – 2:30<br />
2:45 – 3:45<br />
4:00 – 5:00<br />
Samantha Sulser,<br />
Amanda Terry<br />
If New FS is New,<br />
Why do we need<br />
<strong>Family</strong> Tree?<br />
David Barss<br />
Introducti<strong>on</strong> to FS<br />
Community Trees<br />
George Ryskamp<br />
Apples and<br />
Oranges: Trees <strong>on</strong><br />
Ancestry and<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
Warren Bittner<br />
Once You Get to<br />
Europe, Then<br />
What? Proving<br />
Immigrant Identities<br />
John Titford<br />
Barking Up the<br />
Wr<strong>on</strong>g Tree<br />
Megan<br />
Smolenyak<br />
Neglected <strong>History</strong><br />
Webinar<br />
(4:00 – 5:30)<br />
Kory Meyerink<br />
Church Records: A<br />
Mixed Blessing for<br />
American Research<br />
Dan Lynch<br />
1940 Census –<br />
Ready, Set, Search<br />
Warren Bittner<br />
Land <strong>on</strong> the Fr<strong>on</strong>tier<br />
– Hidden Treasures<br />
in Federal Land<br />
Case Files<br />
Apryl Cox<br />
Finding England’s<br />
Pre-1858 Probate<br />
Records<br />
Margo McKinstry<br />
England and Wales<br />
Beginning Research<br />
Apryl Cox<br />
Reading England’s<br />
Pre-1858 Probate<br />
Records<br />
German<br />
Research<br />
James Beidler<br />
C<strong>on</strong>trasting German<br />
Migrati<strong>on</strong>s: 18 th<br />
Century vs. 19 th<br />
Century Waves<br />
Roger Minert<br />
Church Records in<br />
Germany<br />
Roger Minert<br />
Marriage and<br />
Courtship in<br />
Germany, 1500 to<br />
1800<br />
James Beidler<br />
Your Immigrants’<br />
Germany: Dealing<br />
With Microstates<br />
Kory Meyerink<br />
Internet Sources for<br />
German Research<br />
Sharing<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Stephen<br />
Anders<strong>on</strong><br />
Evaluating <strong>Family</strong><br />
Traditi<strong>on</strong>s, Stories<br />
and Myths as Valid<br />
Informati<strong>on</strong> Sources<br />
John Titford<br />
How to Write Your<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Elizabeth Snow<br />
Compiling, Writing<br />
and Sharing Your<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Stephen<br />
Anders<strong>on</strong><br />
Creating an Oral<br />
<strong>History</strong> Program for<br />
the Extended<br />
<strong>Family</strong><br />
Barry Ewell<br />
<strong>Genealogy</strong><br />
Treasures: How to<br />
Find, Learn and<br />
Share <strong>Genealogy</strong><br />
One Generati<strong>on</strong> to<br />
the Next<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
C<strong>on</strong>sultants<br />
Cynthia Doxey<br />
Green, Rachel<br />
Hiatt<br />
Research Basics for<br />
C<strong>on</strong>sultants<br />
Peggy Ryskamp<br />
Born and Died in<br />
Utah: Basics for<br />
C<strong>on</strong>sultants<br />
Cynthia Doxey<br />
Green<br />
British Research<br />
Primer for<br />
C<strong>on</strong>sultants<br />
Devin Ashby<br />
Setting a Visi<strong>on</strong> for<br />
Temple and <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong> Work<br />
Michael & Sheila<br />
Huntsman<br />
Working with Youth
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Thursday, August 2 nd<br />
8:30 – 9:30 Plenary Speaker: Rod L. DeGiulio<br />
Tracks<br />
9:45 – 10:45<br />
11:00 – 12:00<br />
Internet<br />
Research<br />
Dan Lynch<br />
Google Books<br />
D<strong>on</strong>ald & Diane<br />
Snow<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Books Online<br />
Methodology U.S. Research<br />
John Titford<br />
Who Was Mrs.<br />
Williams<strong>on</strong>? An 18 th<br />
and 19 th Century<br />
Genealogical<br />
Detective Story<br />
Bart Kowallis<br />
Using<br />
Neighborhoods to<br />
Solve Difficult Pre-<br />
1850 Problems: A<br />
New York Case<br />
Study<br />
Hannah Z. Allan<br />
Digging Into the<br />
Past: Land Records<br />
and Tax Lists<br />
Diane Van Skiver<br />
Gagel<br />
They Went West:<br />
Researching<br />
Col<strong>on</strong>ial and<br />
Territorial Records<br />
British Isles<br />
Research<br />
Raym<strong>on</strong> Naisbitt<br />
Wales Research<br />
Online<br />
Alan Mann<br />
Recently Filmed<br />
Resources for Irish<br />
Research<br />
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch<br />
1:30 – 2:30<br />
2:45 – 3:45<br />
4:00 – 5:00<br />
Dan Lynch<br />
Google +<br />
Suzanne Russo<br />
Adams<br />
Paradigm Shifts<br />
When Searching<br />
Online Genealogical<br />
Records<br />
Dan Lynch<br />
Google Power<br />
Search Tools<br />
Hannah Z. Allan<br />
Organizing<br />
Records: Burying<br />
the Dead, Not the<br />
Living<br />
Loretta Evans<br />
Finding the Invisible<br />
Half of the<br />
Populati<strong>on</strong><br />
Stephen Young<br />
Descendancy<br />
Research<br />
Bart Kowallis<br />
D<strong>on</strong>’t Forget to<br />
Check the<br />
Newspaper<br />
Cynthia Doxey<br />
Green<br />
How Did Y’all Find<br />
Your <strong>Family</strong>?<br />
Beginning Southern<br />
Research<br />
Deborah Glenn,<br />
Adam Glenn<br />
LDS Sources and<br />
Resources<br />
Margo McKinstry<br />
Scotland’s People:<br />
All the Records You<br />
Need Online<br />
John Titford<br />
Marry ‘em off, Kill<br />
‘em off:<br />
Researching a<br />
L<strong>on</strong>d<strong>on</strong> <strong>Family</strong>,<br />
1640-1840<br />
Alan Mann<br />
England’s Records<br />
of the Poor –<br />
Coming to a<br />
Website Near You<br />
Scandinavian<br />
Research<br />
Jennifer Hansen<br />
Beginning<br />
Scandinavian<br />
Research<br />
Ruth Manness<br />
Mumbo Jumbo?<br />
Tips for Interpreting<br />
in Germanic and<br />
Scandinavian<br />
Gothic Script<br />
Jennifer Hansen<br />
Scandinavian<br />
Church Records<br />
Ruth Manness<br />
Little Used But<br />
Important Sources:<br />
Swedish/Finnish<br />
Tax, Catechism and<br />
Danish Communi<strong>on</strong><br />
Records<br />
Jennifer Hansen<br />
Which Hans Jensen<br />
is Mine? Navigating<br />
Patr<strong>on</strong>ymics<br />
LDS Church<br />
<strong>History</strong> Library <strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
Jay Burrup<br />
Introducti<strong>on</strong> to the<br />
Church <strong>History</strong><br />
Library<br />
Alan Morrell<br />
The Church <strong>History</strong><br />
Library’s Online<br />
Presence and<br />
Databases<br />
Jeff Anders<strong>on</strong><br />
C<strong>on</strong>trolling Your<br />
Children From<br />
Bey<strong>on</strong>d the Grave:<br />
Writing a Journal for<br />
Your Descendants<br />
Marie Ericks<strong>on</strong><br />
Researching<br />
Branch, District,<br />
Ward, Stake, and<br />
Missi<strong>on</strong> Records<br />
Brittany<br />
Chapman, April<br />
Williamsen<br />
Using Photographs<br />
at the Church<br />
<strong>History</strong> Library<br />
Samantha Sulser<br />
What I Should know<br />
about<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search.org<br />
Fran Jensen<br />
Something WiKi<br />
This Way Comes<br />
Kelly Summers<br />
Case Study <strong>on</strong> FS<br />
Historical Records<br />
Lynn Turner<br />
Browsing Historical<br />
Records<br />
Kelly Summers<br />
Educati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
Resources at FS
Tracks<br />
8:30 – 9:30<br />
9:45 – 10:45<br />
11:00 – 12:00<br />
Online<br />
Sources<br />
Echo King<br />
Searching<br />
Ancestry.com<br />
Gord<strong>on</strong> Atkins<strong>on</strong><br />
Getting to Know<br />
Fold3<br />
R. Brian M<strong>on</strong>cur<br />
Geo-caching for<br />
Ancestors: Using<br />
smartph<strong>on</strong>es to<br />
collect headst<strong>on</strong>e<br />
images worldwide<br />
<str<strong>on</strong>g>BYU</str<strong>on</strong>g> <str<strong>on</strong>g>C<strong>on</strong>ference</str<strong>on</strong>g> <strong>on</strong> <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> & <strong>Genealogy</strong> <strong>2012</strong><br />
Methodology U.S. Research<br />
Hannah Z. Allan<br />
Research Ties: Log<br />
Your Research and<br />
Stay <strong>on</strong> Track<br />
Beth Taylor<br />
Are You Your Own<br />
Brick Wall?<br />
Comm<strong>on</strong><br />
<strong>Genealogy</strong> Mistakes<br />
and How to<br />
Overcome Them<br />
Jill Woodbury<br />
Illuminating Puzzle<br />
Pieces of Life<br />
Friday, August 3 rd<br />
Mary Hill<br />
Find Lost Ancestors<br />
in the Draper<br />
Manuscripts<br />
Carol Smith<br />
Employing the<br />
Masses, What the<br />
WPA Did for<br />
Genealogists<br />
Mary Hill<br />
Migrati<strong>on</strong> Patterns<br />
in the U.S.<br />
Computers &<br />
Technology<br />
Geoff Rasmussen<br />
Digital Cemeteries<br />
and Mobile Apps:<br />
FindAGrave,<br />
Billi<strong>on</strong>Graves, and<br />
RestingSpot.com<br />
Barry Ewell<br />
Use a Digital<br />
Camera to Cut Your<br />
Research Time by<br />
Half<br />
D<strong>on</strong>ald & Diane<br />
Snow<br />
Freeware and<br />
Shareware for<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch<br />
1:30 – 2:30<br />
2:45 – 3:45<br />
Echo King<br />
U.S. Census<br />
Records <strong>on</strong><br />
Ancestry.com<br />
Gord<strong>on</strong> Atkins<strong>on</strong><br />
Finding Your <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>on</strong> Fold3<br />
Barry Ewell<br />
Top Twenty<br />
Less<strong>on</strong>s Every<br />
Genealogist Needs<br />
to Know<br />
Ancestry Insider<br />
Records are the<br />
Darndest Things<br />
Beth Taylor<br />
Where There’s a<br />
Will There’s a<br />
Probate: Basic U.S.<br />
Probate Research<br />
Diane Van Skiver<br />
Gagel<br />
Reading Between<br />
the Lines:<br />
Expanding <strong>on</strong> a<br />
Military Record<br />
Geoff Rasmussen<br />
Blogging for<br />
Genealogists<br />
Jean Naisbitt<br />
Learn the Uses for<br />
Smart Ph<strong>on</strong>es as a<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong> Tool<br />
Internati<strong>on</strong>al<br />
(Small)<br />
Heidi Sugden<br />
France: Internet<br />
Resources – Top<br />
Research Sites and<br />
Databases<br />
Ruth Merriman<br />
The Floodgates<br />
Have Opened for<br />
Italian Records<br />
Online<br />
Kelly Summers<br />
Latin America<br />
Online<br />
Michael Hall<br />
Immigrati<strong>on</strong> of<br />
Azoreans to the<br />
United States: A<br />
Case Study of One<br />
<strong>Family</strong><br />
George Ryskamp<br />
Dutch Research for<br />
Those Who D<strong>on</strong>’t<br />
Know Much Dutch<br />
Youth and<br />
<strong>Genealogy</strong><br />
Jean Naisbitt<br />
Use Technology<br />
With <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
to Strengthen Ties<br />
With the Rising<br />
Generati<strong>on</strong><br />
Janet Hovorka<br />
Incubating Eggs:<br />
The Chart Chick<br />
Engages Her<br />
Teenage Children<br />
With Their <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong><br />
Jean Naisbitt<br />
Creative and Fun<br />
Ways to Bring Life<br />
to <strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Claire Briss<strong>on</strong>-<br />
Banks<br />
Using Technology<br />
to Involve Youth in<br />
<strong>Family</strong> <strong>History</strong><br />
Janet Hovorka<br />
Grandma’s Bullet<br />
Proof Vest: Why<br />
Your Children Need<br />
You to do <strong>Family</strong><br />
<strong>History</strong><br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
Devin Ashby<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
Indexing: Basics<br />
and Bey<strong>on</strong>d<br />
Peggy Ryskamp<br />
Reading and<br />
Indexing Spanish<br />
and Italian Records<br />
in FSI<br />
Devin Ashby<br />
You Too Can<br />
Arbitrate in FSI<br />
Suzanne Russo<br />
Adams<br />
What If It’s Not<br />
Online?<br />
Jill Woodbury<br />
Learning the<br />
Research Process<br />
Within<br />
<strong>Family</strong>Search<br />
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