Family History Day features local and national speakers who will provide insight into techniques and resources to strengthen your genealogical pursuits. This fully- virtual event will have something to offer for people of all skill levels – whether you are researching family in the United States or around the world, trying to learn more about a historic family home, or just getting started with research.
This is a free event, but registration is required.
Saturday, October 29, 2022
Online via Zoom
10:00am – 5:45pm
Event Schedule
| Time | Class A | Class B |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. | The 1950 Census | Michael Brophy | Meet PERSI, and Discover Treasures in Genealogy Periodicals | Sunny Morton |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Genealogy and Dual Citizenship | Christine Cochran | Are You My Cousin?: Using AncestryDNA Matches | Mary Jamba |
| 12:15 – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch Break | Lunch Break |
| 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Italian Genealogy 101: Tracing Your Ancestors Back to Italy | Alec Feretti | Researching with Maps | Lauren Kuntzman |
| 2:15 – 3:15 p.m. | Buckeye Research: Using FamilySearch to Find Ohio Records | Dana Ann Palmer | Paul Newman: The Genealogy of Shaker’s Favorite Son | Deborah Abbott |
| 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Free Persons of Color – Migrating to Ohio in the Antebellum Period | Denyce Porter Peyton | Forensic Genealogy and DNA | Katharine O’Connell |
| 4:45 – 5:45 p.m. | Your Results Are In! Using DNA in Your African American Research | Jessica Trotter | Jumping into German and Austro-Hungarian Family Research | Stephen Wendt |
A Zoom link will be emailed to attendees prior to the event and Zoom’s Breakout Rooms feature will be used to allow attendees to select between simultaneous events.
Questions? Please contact the Center for Local & Global History at CLGH@cpl.org or (216) 623-2864