CANCELED – Second Saturday: RootsTech Family History Fair

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED – YOU MAY WATCH THE VIDEOS FROM HOME OR FROM THE KHS LIBRARY FOR FREE BY FOLLOWING THIS LINK.

The Kentucky Genealogical Society joins the Kentucky Historical Society in hosting a series of free genealogy workshops each month at the Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History.

This June, join KHS and KGS for a buffet of family history sessions, sponsored by the RootsTech Conference!

In February 2015, the annual RootsTech Conference took place in Salt Lake City, Utah. Several sessions were selected for recording to be shared online and at Family History Fairs around the world. The Kentucky Historical Society has been selected as one of the participating venues!

What this means: On June 13th, our regularly scheduled Second Saturday will take on a slightly different shape. Our sessions will begin and end at the same time (10:30AM-12:45PM.) However, during that time, we will be providing three different video sessions each hour, giving you the option to choose which session you want to attend! The sessions will take place concurrently every hour in three separate rooms throughout the History Center, with different topics in each room; Just like a real conference!

This event is FREE, but registration is REQUIRED! 

Schedule for the day (Room assignments TBA):

***All Sessions are Pre-Recorded Video Presentations***

10:30AM – 11:30AM:

• 30 Pieces of Tech I Can’t Live Without. Speaker: D. Josh Taylor
• You’ve Mastered the Census and Basic Search, What Next? Speaker: Karen Auman
• The Write Stuff, Leaving a Recorded Legacy. Speaker: Valerie Elkins

11:30AM – 11:45AM

Break

11:45AM – 12:45PM

• Building a Genealogy Research Toolbox. Speaker: Thomas MacEntee
• Getting the Most Out of Ancestry.com. Speakers: Crista Cowan & Juliana Szucs
• Finding the Living Among the Dead: Using the Internet to Find Your Living Cousins. Speaker: Amy Archibald

About the speakers:

The sessions shown in each room will be fully recorded versions, taped at the 2015 RootsTech Conference! These sessions were delivered by nationally recognized leaders in the genealogy field. 

Morning session runs from 10:30-11:30 a.m., followed by a 15 minute break. Second session runs from 11:45-12:45 p.m. Registration for these free workshops is strongly encouraged. However, walk-ins are welcome. Please pre-register by calling the KHS Refdesk at 502-564-1792 x.4460 or by e-mailing us at: khsrefdesk@ky.gov 

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