First Virtual Ancestry Day

On Friday 4 June 2021, from 9 am to 7 pm Ancestry.ca in conjunction with the Ontario Genealogical Society is offering a full day of mostly 30-minute expert talks.

Full details and registration ($25) at https://ogs.on.ca/shop/conference-2021-ancestry-day/

Here's the program.

ANCESTRY DAY – Sessions 9:00 am to 7:00 pm

Time	Subject	Speaker
9:00 AM	Opening of Ancestry Day – Prizes, Discounts	Lesley Anderson | Ancestry	5 min
9:05 AM	Getting the most out of Ancestry – Searching Records & Online Trees	Lesley Anderson | Ancestry	30 min
9:35 AM	Make Discoveries with Ancestry Hints	Karen Joyce Lowe | Ancestry	15 min
9:50 AM	Boots on the ground – Land/Census records	Advisory Board Member Ken McKinley	30 min
10:20 AM	Q & A with Customer service reps and Genealogy Experts/BREAK		20 min
10:40 AM	Find a Grave: What You Can Do and What’s New	Peter Drinkwater | Ancestry	20 min
11:00 AM	Challenges of Jewish Research: Names, Dates and Places	ProGenealogist Janette Silverman	30 min
11:30 AM	ASK AN EXPERT - Irish Research	ProGenealogist Joe Buggy	30 min
12:00 PM	ASK AN EXPERT - Military Research - 1st and 2nd WW	ProGenealogist Simon Pearce	1 hour
1:00 PM	BREAK/Q & A with Customer service reps and Genealogy Experts		15 min
1:15 PM	AncestryDNA 101: A Beginner's Guide to DNA Discovery	Lisa Elzey | Ancestry	30 min
1:45 PM	AncestryDNA  102: AncestryDNA Matches for Family History Discoveries	Kelly Becker | Ancestry	30 min
2:15 PM	AncestryDNA 103: ThruLines  & Custom Groups	Brooke Alius & Randon Morford | Ancestry	30 min
2:45 PM	AncestryDNA Communities: Bringing New Discoveries to Your Research	Lisa Elzey | Ancestry	30 min
3:15 PM	Q & A with Customer service reps and Genealogy Experts/Break		30 min
3:45 PM	Marriage and Obituary Records: Indexes on Ancestry®—Images on Newspapers.com	Crista Cowan | Ancestry	20 min
4:10 PM	Five Things to Do with Newspapers.com	Anne Mitchell | Ancestry	20 min
4:30 PM	Quebec Genealogical Records	Advisory Board Member Gary Schroeder	1 hour
5:30 PM	Q & A with Customer service reps and Genealogy Experts/BREAK		30 min
6:00 PM	Ancestry at Sea - Researching Passenger Lists	Advisory Board Member Glenn Wright	30 min
6:30 PM	Adding Sources, Using hints and Merge feature	Advisory Board Member Lianne Kruger	30 min
7:00 PM	CLOSING

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