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 | ||
I'm going to assume the day-long event times are in EDT -? There is no clarification on the sites. Probably a good assumption, but I do wish societies would add in the specific time zones, since people from outside their home base may well sign up.
ReplyDelete- Celia in PDT.