Family Lines & Stories

The Healing Power of Family History
2024-02-29 08:00 - 2024-03-02 17:00 (America/New_York) | Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, 100 S W Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101
Some among us have experienced great family trauma and bear the scars. Family history research contributes healing to the heart, soul, and sometimes families—but especially to the researcher. Please come and experience the hope and healing that has come to the speaker by researching her family lines. She will share family stories and healing principles that softened her heart and helped her heal.

The GPS: A Genealogist’s Best Friend
2024-02-29 08:00 - 2024-03-02 17:00 | Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, 100 S W Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84101
As much as we use the directional GPS in getting to unknown and tricky destinations, we can also learn to use the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) to help us to get to unknown and tricky places in our research. This presentation has a fun and understandable approach to a researched story with a learning curve. Becoming comfortable with the GPS has never been easier.

16 Death Records That Bring Our Research to Life
2024-03-09 11:00 - 12:00 | Texas
Knowing where to look can sometimes be the most difficult part of research. This presentation is filled with stories and examples of often unknown, unfound, and unused death documents.

I’ve Got My Ancestry DNA Report: Evaluating My Test Results For Connections (Intermediate
2024-03-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Emily Fowler Denton County Library, 502 Oakland St, Denton, Texas, 76201
This presentation takes understanding the DNA report to the next level. We will touch on the Ancestry DNA Ethnicity Report, but more importantly, we will calculate found matches, evaluate the degree of relationship, and compare DNA from Matches, ThruLines, and Parent1 and Parent2. This course is geared for those who are beyond beginner level and looking to build a greater knowledge of the power of genetics in genealogy.

Forgotten Treasures in the Texas Courthouse: Discovering the Miscellaneous Records
2024-03-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Emily Fowler Denton County Library, 502 Oakland St, Denton, Texas, 76201
Are you looking for context and documentation? Do you have an ancestor that seems to have slipped between the cracks? Then these Texas gems hidden away in our county courthouses may hold an answer for you. This presentation features 2 touching stories of Texans, and also abundant examples of useful assorted documents found within Miscellaneous records.

Power Hour: Where to Find Church Records
2024-03-19 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual

My Family History Keynote Address
2024-03-23 09:00 - 09:30 | Denton TX LDS Stake Center, 3000 Old North Road, Denton, TX

Courthouse Records: One Stop Shopping for Family Secrets
2024-03-23 10:00 - 11:00 | Denton TX LDS Stake Center, 3000 Old North Road, Denton, TX
Many wonderful stories of individuals and families are told in a well-paced introduction to documents found in courthouses. Birth, death and marriage certificates, probate & wills, land, court case documents and guardianship papers are part of these stories. The benefits of courthouse research become clear to the researcher not familiar with these documents.

16 Death Records That Bring Our Research to Life
2024-04-16 07:00 - 20:00 | Robson Ranch Clubhouse, 9400 Ed Robson Blvd, Denton, TX, 76207

Incorporating Multiple Sites in Our Research
2024-07-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Grapevine Public Library, 1201 Municipal Way, Grapevine, TX, 76051
While Ancestry and FamilySearch provide amazing genealogical research experiences in and of themselves, there are many, many, many other sites to turn to for information. Learn and enjoy the Triple Whammy process that has brought so much success to my own and others’ research.

Ark-La-Tx Seminar
2024-08-10 08:00 - 17:00 | Texas
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Genealogy KC
2024-08-24 08:00 - 17:00 | Texas

Birth to Death and In-Between: Finding, Using, and Integrating Religious Records in the United States
2025-01-09 19:00 - 20:00 | McHenry County Gen Society
So much information and so little time! Religious records are another document group that sometimes seems complicated to search out and access. This presentation includes an overview with specific examples of why we want to look for religious records, what sorts of records might be found, who might be included in them, and where to look on-line and off-line for these documents. This presentation hopes to simplify the religious records search experience.

Birth to Death and In-Between: Finding Christian Religious Records in the United States
2025-01-14 19:00 - 20:00 | George W. Hawkes Arlington Downtown Public Library, 100 S. Center Street, Arlington, TX, 76010

Record Types & Evaluations: A Course for Beginners
2025-01-20 08:00 - 17:00 | Texas
This session’s focus will be the differences between sources, information, and evidence while introducing key research techniques. Participants will learn to identify and evaluate different types of records, analyze evidence to answer research questions, and create rudimentary citations. The session includes guidance on using online tools for citation formatting.

Researching in 3 Steps: Documents, Context, and Citation
2025-01-25 09:00 - 12:00 | Denton TX LDS Stake Center, 3000 Old North Road, Denton, TX
Combining beginning and intermediate opportunities, this presentation combines fascinating stories of humanity paired with opportunities for compassionate context and an analysis of appropriate citation for the documents utilized.

Incorporating Multiple Sites in Our Research
2025-01-25 09:00 - 12:00 | Denton TX LDS Stake Center, 3000 Old North Road, Denton, TX
While Ancestry and FamilySearch represent amazing genealogical research experiences in and of themselves, there are many, many, many other sites to turn to for information. Learn and enjoy the Triple Whammy process that has brought so much success to my own and others’ research.

Researching in 3 Steps: Documents, Context, and Citation
2025-02-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2025-05-06 19:00 - 20:00 | Robson Ranch Clubhouse, 9400 Ed Robson Blvd, Denton, TX, 76207

Forgotten Treasures in the Texas Courthouse: Discovering the Miscellaneous Records
2025-02-25 08:00 - 17:00 | Texas

Preparing for Genealogical Success: Hands-on Research Questions, Resources, and Logs
2025-03-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Inez Hatley Hughes Research Center, Marshall, Texas
Part 1 : Attendees will learn and practice how to create an effective research question and how to design a research plan designed to find answers to their research questions.
Part 2 Practicum: Using their personal research question, attendees will research the resources discovered in Part 1, and keep a research log to experience research workflow.

What Can DNA Do For Me?
2025-03-18 10:00 - 23:30 | Texas
Combining review and resources to use on our own genealogical research problems, this presentation is fun and fast with one case study to participate in solving.

What Will DNA Do For Me?
2025-04-12 10:30 - 11:30 | Staggs Community Room, Huntsville Public Library, Huntsville, Texas
Combining beginner review, multiple resources, and social awareness to use on our own genealogical research problems, this presentation is fun and fast with one case study to participate in solving.

Brick Wall Busters: Sources & Strategies with Stories
2025-04-14 17:00 - 18:00 | Texas
This is a fun presentation with strategies, sources and a variety of documents that just might hammer down that frustrating brick wall. Examples of brick walls broken down are demonstrated by using vital records, military records, census, prison, land records, newspapers, passenger manifests and divorce records including a complicated story tracking a woman whose name changed 3 times in public records.

I’ve Got—Or I’m Getting—My DNA Report: Now What Do I Do? (Beginner)
2025-04-29 17:00 - 18:00 | Fort Worth History Center, 501 E. Bolt, Fort Worth, TX, 76110
This presentation explains from a non-genetic genealogist point of view in a fun and visual way how to choose a test, a company, what to do while waiting for the report, and how to maximize the report results. Whether deciding who to contact, how to use the research within the DNA report, or just how to link our trees to our DNA results, this session will be helpful.

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2025-05-08 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-05-08 19:00 - 20:00 | New Cedar Hill Library, 450 Pioneer Trail, Cedar Hill, TX

What Will DNA Do For Me?
2025-05-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Pecan Plantation Clubhouse, Granbury, TX

Artificial Intelligence, Genealogy, and Me and You
2025-06-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Tyler Public Library, 201 S College Ave, Tyler, 75702, United States

FamilySearch: Finding What You Need and What You Didn’t Know You Wanted
2025-06-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Grapevine Public Library, 1201 Municipal Way, Grapevine, TX, 76051
Before Ancestry, there was FamilySearch—and FamilySearch continues today as a thriving and regularly updated website for researchers. While many researchers are fond of FamilySearch Wiki and many are fond of the main research page, this presentation focuses on the hidden gems of the wonderful research world of the FamilySearch unindexed but digitized records.
