For many of us, the most interesting pasts of our family tree are the distant branches of people form long ago.  Unfortunately, common sources like census or church records become more sparse as we fo back in time. The presentation will focus on where and how to find earlier documents.  Ed is a big believer in going back to the source, rather than copying the trees of others.  He will discuss how to find early church records, older printed documents  with a focus on overseas ancestors.

 

 

Ed Storey grew up in Rochester, NY where he worked for General Motors for 40 years.  With his wife Nancy, he has lived in El Paso and Beijing before choosing Colorado Springs. Ed writes article for magazines such as Internet Genealogy and Your Genealogy Today.  His ancestral searches are primarily in England, India and Germany, as well as North Carolina.

 

 

Ellen Kowitt is Vice President of the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, a past president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado, and a member of the Indian Peaks Chapter NSDAR. She has been researching her own family history for 25 years and enjoys helping others as a mentor. Ellen lectures, publishes articles, and volunteers at the Colorado State Archives indexing naturalization and probate records.

 

 

This presentation will explore the development of a neighborhood reconstruction project and its benefits for genealogical research. Professional genealogist Kirk Patton will discuss his ongoing effort to plat original land grants in a neighborhood settled in the late 1700’s in Kentucky, and will demonstrate the value of establishing connections between adjacent land owners whose property boundaries were established with "metes and bounds" descriptions. The program will examine the integration of records associated with land ownership, focusing on what those records might reveal about the relationships between neighbors.