2024-2025 Class Notes, Workshop Notes and Handouts

• January 21, 2026 - Naming Conventions, Research Plan and Log Templates, Family Tree Groups and Trees, Genealogy Toolbox
• January 7, 2026 - Organize Your Research and Paper Files (cont.), Naming Conventions for Digital Files, Using AI for Photo Restoration, Genealogical Societies by State.
• December 17, 2025 - Organize Your Research and Paper Files, Organize Your Digital Records/Photos, What Do I Do With My Research
• December 3, 2025 - Library of Congress, Digitizing, Ancestry ThruLines, Organize Your Digital Records/Photos
• November 19 2025 - Early British & Irish Census Reords, Joe Beine's Genealogy Research Guides, Community History Archive, Youtube
• November 5, 2025 - 1890 Census, Library of Congress, Eliphind, What do I do with my Research
• October 15, 2025 - Special US Censuses, Plat Maps, Library of Congress, finding Images, What do I do with my Research
• October 1, 2025 - Case Study, FamilySearch Tool Options, Family History Guide, Special US Censuses
• September 17, 2025 - Case Study, FamilySearch Tool Options, FamilySearch Reporting Partners, Library of Congress Research Guides
• September 3, 2025 - Case Study, All About Findagrave Part 2, Treefind and What To Do With My Research
• August 20, 2025 - All About Findagrave, Case Study, Treefind and What To Do With My Research
• August 6, 2025 - Class Case Study Follow-up, Merging Records in FamilySearch
• July 9, 2025 - Case Study Follow-up, FamilySearch Cousin Calculator-Exact Year Search-indexing-more Full Text Search
• July 2, 2025 - FamilySearch Library Catalog, Ancestry Digitized Books, Genealogy Case Studies and YouTube Genealogy Videos
• June 18, 2025 - African American Research Web Sites, African American Research in FamilySearch and Cyndis List
• June 4, 2025 - Full-Text Search, Case studies, YouTube Genealogy Channels and Extreme Genes Radio
• May 21, 2025 - Threats to archives, Oral Histories, FamilySearch Case Studies
• April 30, 2025 - Castle Garden, Newspaper Searches, Tearing Down Brick Walls
• April 16, 2025 - FamilySearch Full Text Search, Heritage Hub, Adoptions and FamilySearch Digital Library
• March 23, 2025 - Digital Resources for all 50 U.S. States PDF Version, MS Word Version
• March 19, 2025 - Heritage Hub, Digital Resources for AL, AK, AZ, AR & CA, Adoption Research, FamilySearch Groups and Trees and Newspapers.
• February 19, 2025 - Full Text Search, YouTube Tutorials, State Resources, PD Image Archive and much more!
• January 15, 2025 - Genealogy Toolbox, Language Translation, Organizing Your Research, Public Domain Image Archive
• January 8, 2025 - Santa Claus, 1929 Public Domain Documents, Genealogy Societies, Language Translation, FamilySearch Groups and Trees
• December 18, 2024 - FamilySearch OCR and AI, The best Genealogy YouTube Channels, Genealogy Toolbox
• December 4, 2024 - Case Study, FamilySearch Wiki, Dakota County MN, Genealogy Toolbox
• November 20, 2024 - FamilySearch Lessons Learned, Digitizing Media, Locating Birth Records
• November 6, 2024 - PWW2 Memorial Registry, Fold 3 Memorials, Family History Guide
• October 30, 2024 - Pension File Records, Reconstructing a Military Story, Resolving Conflicting Evidence, Evidence Mining.
• October 2, 2024 - Searching Historical Records, FamilySearch Digital Learning Resources and Creating Sources/Citations.
• September 18, 2024 - Newspapers help with the 1950 Census, Searches with wildcards, FamilySearch Continued.
• September 4, 2024 - The Family History Guide, FamilySearch Library Webinars and Research Essentials.
• August 21, 2024 - Five Tips for Searching Historical Records, Ancestry and MyHeritage Library Editions.
• August 7, 2024 - FamilySearch Library Learning Resources, FTDNA Retires Tree-Building Tool, Family History Guide.
• July 17, 2024 - Alameda County Digital Resources, FamilySearch Library, Why do we need sources and continue with Maps.
• July 3, 2024 - Map Sites, County Boundaries,New York Public Library, Gazetteers and ArchiveGrid.
• June 5, 2024 - Newspapers.com Birth Index, Goldie May, Maps, Brick Walls.
• May 15, 2024 - Canadian Passenger Lists, Immigration, Belgian State Archives.
• May 1, 2024 - Better Note Taking, Cleaning Out After Death, Brickwall Collaboration.
• April 17, 2024 - L-AGS, Descendancy Research, Unindexed-Full Text Search FamilySearch.
• April 10, 2024 - Photo Organizing, California Digital Newspaper, Case Studies.
• March 20, 2024 - Death and Cemetery Websites, Cleaning out a Loved One's Residence, Better Note Taking.
• March 13, 2024 - Findagrave, 12 Rules of Genealogy
• February 14, 2024 - Genealogy Guys, 31 Day Approach to Genealogy and James Tanner, same subject.
• February 7, 2024 - Legal Genealogist, FamilySearch Genealogies, Organization for the Disorganized, Case Study - Seeking Ancestors in Louisiana.
• January 17, 2024 - MyHeritage Changes Terms, The Family History Guide, Genealogy Guys Blog, Uploading Gedcom to FamilySearch, Seven Genealogy TV Shows and more.

Archived Class Notes: 2011 -2023. Please note that some URLs on older class notes may not work, as websites have been retired.

Last updated January 20, 2026