Are you struggling trying to find your great grandmother’s maiden name? Finding information on females in our family trees can often be a challenge since most early records were made by men and about men. Come learn specific research technics to help you flesh out the information needed on your family tree. Using FAN research methodology and a wide variety of record types you might just get lucky enough to discover that illusive maiden name.

 

Kathy Tarullo received her bachelor’s in Family History from Brigham Young University and is a recent ProGen 40 graduate.  She is currently on staff with Apex Colorado Recreation District teaching beginning genealogy classes and a Beyond the Basics lecture series.  She is a member of Foothills Genealogical Society, Genealogical Society of Utah, Colorado Association of Professional Genealogists and the Director of the Arvada Family History Center.  Besides searching out ancestors, she loves spending time with her husband, six daughters and 13 grandchildren.

 

Registration closes Friday, June 19 at 5:00 PM

 

Presented by Sylvia Tracy-Doolos

Instructions to enumerators differed every ten years and can tell us a lot about what was going on in the country. Understanding the details hidden in the census can help us take advantage of the information gathered and help us understand the context of our ancestor's times.

Sylvia Tracy-Doolos has been interested in genealogy for nearly forty years and working as a professional genealogist for ten as the owner of New Leaf Genealogy. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), and several local societies. Sylvia is President of the International Society of British Genealogy and Family History (ISBGFH), and the Wales, Ireland, Scotland, England Family History Society (WISE-FHS), and Secretary of the Colorado branch of APG. She has a B.A. in History and minored in English focusing on linguistics, so she could study how language changes affected American record keeping.

 

 

 

Dr. Greg Liverman will give updates in ethnicity tests form the major testing companies as well as reviewing the visualization tools available. he will discuss the Shared cM Project that was recently released, attaching your AncestryDNA match to your ancestry tree, the latest in forensic genetic genealogy, Y-DNA and the future of DNA testing.

 

Greg Liverman has been researching family history since the 1990s working with both online and on-the -ground records in many states and foreign counties. He brings his experience as a TV journalist, scientist and information technology professional to bear on genealogy research problems.  Since the use of DNA testing exploded in the last decade, Greg has focused on understanding and teaching the best practices fo DNA testing and analysis.

 

Greg launched Pinewood Genealogy with his wife, Wendy Dillenschneider, to help others with their research and genetic genealogy (DNA) analysis. Pinewood Genealogy has developed a library of over twenty different lectures and classes covering a wide variety of genealogical topics.

 

 

Join CRCGS members for a research experience at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, the largest library of its kind in the world. Rooms have been reserved at the Salt Lake Plaza Hotel at a discounted rate; join us for a few day or a full week.