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Leeds & Grenville Branch – February 2025 – FamilySearch: Accessing & Using Images and Full Text Search – With Jill Morelli

Meetings

Join us on Monday, February 3rd at 7:00 pm via Zoom for our first presentation of 2025!    Author and speaker Jill Morelli will speak about Family Search research techniques. Her topic is “Be a Super Sleuth: Accessing & Using Images and Full Text Search”

Did you know that Family Search is placing their recently digitized material online in less than 24 hours after it is scanned?  Did you know that they are placing them, not in the Catalog, but in Images? This makes the images tab (under Search) the most up-to-date repository of FS records–not the Catalog. Did you know that using Artificial Intelligence, you can conduct an all-word search for certain documents in their “Lab”? What is a Super Sleuth to do? We will learn how to access these two features of FS to find your ancestors. Treasures await!

Jill Morelli, CG, CGL is a writer, lecturer and co-founder of the online Applied Genealogy Institute, providing hands-on educational opportunities for intermediate and advanced genealogists. In 2017, she founded the Certification Discussion Group, an online series discussing her certification journey in order to demystify the process for others.  Jill is past president of the Seattle Genealogical Society, co-chair of SGS Centennial 2023, program director for the Puget Sound-APG chapter, and a member of many local and national genealogical societies. To register for this presentation, click here.

Leeds & Grenville Branch – December 2021 Presentation – Ontario Records at FamilySearch

Meetings

Join us on Monday, December 13th at 7:00 pm for a presentation on Ontario Records at FamilySearch by Stephen Young.

Stephen’s presentation will start with a short introduction about the history of FamilySearch and its products and services. He will then demonstrate how to access Historical Records on FamilySearch with specific attention to some of the basic indexed Ontario collections and how to use them:

· Vital records (births, marriage, and deaths), and cemetery records

· Census enumerations

· Tax assessment records (a new collection currently underway)

Stephen C. Young was born and raised in London, Ontario and now lives in Provo, Utah with his wife, Michelle. They are the parents of three sons and two daughters, and grandparents of six (so far). Much of Stephen’s earliest and ongoing research focuses on his Young family from Yorkshire, England who immigrated to the Toronto area in the 1830s and were amongst the earliest pioneers in Hibbert Twp., Perth County and West Wawanosh Twp., Huron County. An employee of the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1988, he is currently a Deputy Chief Genealogical Officer for FamilySearch International, with responsibilities involving Canadian and British records. Stephen has contributed seven articles to OGS Families, continues to write and lecture on family history topics, and will be retiring from a 33-year career with FamilySearch this coming March. Future plans include much more research and writing and travel back home in Ontario.

Everyone is welcome but registration is required. Use this link to register. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to the live presentation.

June 2019 Meeting

Meetings

Finding Your Ancestors with FamilySearch.org

June 10, 2019 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm at the Brockville Museum

Shirley-Ann Pyefinch

Wondering how to find your ancestors in FamilySearch and manage your Family Tree?  Learn what free resources about your ancestors are available for you at FamilySearch.  Learn how to use other free tools like Family Tree, and Memories to preserve your family history for generations.

Our presenter, Shirley-Ann Pyefinch, has been researching her family history for over 40 years, and has taught workshops on family history and preservation throughout Ontario.  She volunteers at the Ottawa Family History Centre and works as a professional Records Manager for the Canadian federal government.