Education

Interview with IGSI’s Dave Miller

Last month I had the opportunity to talk with the Irish Genealogical Society International’s Dave Miller, creator of the IGSI podcast. Dave interviewed Tom Rice and me about the upcoming IGSI webinar Challenges in Irish Family Research: Brick Wall Panel Discussion, which will be broadcast June 17. Tom and...

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Virtual institutes 2020

The summer of 2020 has turned out to be different from what we envisioned, hasn’t it? When 2020 started, I was scheduled to present a pre-conference DNA workshop and a DNA talk at the Celtic Connections Conference (CCC) in Chicago at the end of July, then fly to England,...

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2018 Roundup

For a variety of reasons, 2018 was not a typical year for me! Education I did not travel as much as I usually do, so I didn’t attend any national conferences or educational institutes. I did, however, take advantage of online opportunities to learn from webinars and conference livestreams...

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Come to Boston for Celtic Connections Conference 2018!

Summer is the season for road trips, conferences, and educational offerings. If you have Celtic connections–Scottish, Irish, or Welsh, here’s a conference you won’t want to miss. And it will be held in Newton, Massachusetts, just outside Boston, so you can easily add a visit to Boston’s repositories and/or...

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Learning Ancestry.com

Yesterday I gave a short, basic talk on learning to use the popular genealogy website Ancestry for the Monument chapter, National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution. I provided a one-page handout–since we were a few copies short, I decided to post the handout here. Since it was confined...

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