Event Calendar

Using Clusters to Quickly Identify DNA Matches Relevant to Your Research Question

Presented by Dana Leeds

Clusters can be created using Shared Matches, the Leeds Method, and automated tools such as AutoCluster or the Collins’ Leeds Method. Each cluster represents a group of people who are tied together because of close family relationships based on DNA. Finding an appropriate cluster can help you solve your research question even in cases of misattributed parentage or changed names. This presentation will show you how to work with clusters to answer your research questions.

Colonial Migrations to 1770 

Presented by Ann G. Lawthers, Sc.D.

Before the Revolutionary War, geography, topography and a strong indigenous people presence shaped migration patterns. This webinar covers the dominant push-pull forces and challenges for colonial migration. Using maps and other graphics, the major migration routes by region will be described: New England, mid-Atlantic and southward from Virginia. Famous paths such as the Kings Highway, the Great Valley Road, and the Fall Line Road as well as less well-known paths such as the Greenwood Path and the Forbidden Path will be covered. Using a set of case studies, the process of locating clues in local histories, land records, and vital records is unfolded.

Writing Your Memoir

Presented by Russ Francis

As a genealogist, we all want to know more about our ancestors. I wish my mother and father would have written more about their lives. There is no longer anyone alive who knows their true story. The same with my grandparents and great-grandparents. As the family historian, I’ve been working diligently to uncover their stories, piecing together information from census records, birth certificates, and photo albums. Names, locations, dates, and relationships are there for the gathering, but we can only speculate as to our forebears’ contemporaneous thoughts and feelings. Consequently, I wrote my memoir so that future generations will know my thoughts and feelings—and so that our next family historian, in addition to inheriting my family history research, will know my story.