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'''Open Hours: If you have not been vaccinated, masks are recommended for using the | '''Open Hours: If you have not been vaccinated, masks are recommended for using the Family Search Center.''' | ||
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===''''' | ==='''''16th Annual Free & Family History Conference'''''=== | ||
'''Saturday, October | '''Saturday, October 21, 2023''' | ||
Our Conference is Free and | Our Conference is Free in house and virtual. | ||
''Video recordings of the presentations are available to view only until '''November | ''Video recordings of the presentations are available to view only until '''November 2024'''. Handouts for certain presentations are also available for download. Please use the links below.'' | ||
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FEATURED SPEAKER: ''' | FEATURED SPEAKER: '''Ari Wilkins''' | ||
* Keynote Presentation: | * Keynote Presentation: Hitting Pay-dirt in Manuscript Collections | ||
* Closing Presentation: | * Closing Presentation: Mysterious Relatives; Both presentations are available by registering for a Zoom link. | ||
9:00-9:15-Welcome by Brother | 9:00-9:15-Welcome by Brother David J Jensen | ||
9:15-10:15-Keynote Speaker | 9:15-10:15-Keynote Speaker | ||
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12:15-1:00-Lunch is FREE with advance registration | 12:15-1:00-Lunch is FREE with advance registration | ||
1:00-1:45- | 1:00-1:45-'''Ari Wilkins'''-Mysterious Relatives | ||
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Follow us on Facebook or contact us at ensjen302@gmail.com, karinnbpage@gmail.com, | Follow us on Facebook or contact us at ensjen302@gmail.com, karinnbpage@gmail.com, | ||
If you are unable to attend the conference, register for a Zoom link that will be sent to you. | If you are unable to attend the conference, register for a Zoom link that will be sent to you. | ||
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Time: Oct | Time: Oct 21, 2023 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) | ||
== Handouts from Previous Conference: == | == Handouts from Previous Conference: == | ||
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This article describes the services and resources available at a FamilySearch Center, a branch facility of the FamilySearch Library. |
Center Contacts and Hours[edit | edit source]
Location Map:
Address:
- 144 Buttermilk Pike Lakeside Park KY 41017-2135 United States
- Language: English & Spanish
Phone:
- 1-859-341-3866
E-mail:
- ensjen392@gmail.com
Open Hours: If you have not been vaccinated, masks are recommended for using the Family Search Center.
- Tuesdays 6-9 pm
Holiday Schedule: Closed for Thanksgiving weekend; last 2 weeks in December for Christmas
Closed all major holidays.
16th Annual Free & Family History Conference[edit | edit source]
Saturday, October 21, 2023
Our Conference is Free in house and virtual.
Video recordings of the presentations are available to view only until November 2024. Handouts for certain presentations are also available for download. Please use the links below.
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FEATURED SPEAKER: Ari Wilkins
- Keynote Presentation: Hitting Pay-dirt in Manuscript Collections
- Closing Presentation: Mysterious Relatives; Both presentations are available by registering for a Zoom link.
9:00-9:15-Welcome by Brother David J Jensen
9:15-10:15-Keynote Speaker
10:30-11:15-Bridget Striker-Big Bone and Rabbit Hash: Collections of the Boone County Borderlands Archive &
History Center; available by registering for a Zoom link
Karin Page-Discovering Legendary Ancestors
Denise Freitag-Burdette-A Reporter Perspective on Interviews
11:20-12:15-Cassie Blankenhorn-German Research
Professor Rebecca Johnson-Oral History: It's More Than You Think
Holly Hall-Spanish American War Records; available by registering for a Zoom link
12:15-1:00-Lunch is FREE with advance registration
1:00-1:45-Ari Wilkins-Mysterious Relatives
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Follow us on Facebook or contact us at ensjen302@gmail.com, karinnbpage@gmail.com,
If you are unable to attend the conference, register for a Zoom link that will be sent to you.
Topic: Family History Conference
Time: Oct 21, 2023 09:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Handouts from Previous Conference:[edit | edit source]
Brian Rhinehart - Puzzling Out Your Civil War Ancestors Sources to help find out if he was in the Civil War
- Ask relatives
- 1890 Veteran's Census
- 1910 Census
- 1930 Census
- National Parks Service Civil War soldier database - Website
- Obituaries - Website
- Grave sites - Website
- Pension index cards
- Draft registration ledgers
- Online family trees
- Local Historical Societies
- Homestead Records - Website
Contact information of Previous Presenters:[edit | edit source]
Hillary Delaney - Underground Railroad in Northern Kentucky - hdelaney@bcpl.org Campbell County Historical & Genealogical Society - Website Brian Rhinehart - RhinehartRoots.com or Brian@CivilWar Records.com
Center Resources[edit | edit source]
Collections[edit | edit source]
- 'Genealogy How-To'
- Croom, Emily Anne Unpuzzling Your Past: A Basic Guide to Genealogy, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books 1995): 3rd edition.
- Everton's Genealogical Helper, (Logan, Utah: Everton Publishers, July/August 2005): Periodical
- Hatcher, Patricia Law, Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2003)
- Jonas, Linda & Milner Paul, A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Scottish Ancestors: How to find and record your unique heritage, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Betterway Books, 2002)
- Kenton County Public Library, Local History and Genealogy User Guide, (Covington, Kentucky)
- Tepper, Michael, American Passenger Arrival Records, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1993)
- 'Ireland'
- Ulster Genealogical & Historical Guild Familia, (Belfast, Ireland: Ulster Historical Foundation, 1991) Volume 2 No 7.
- 'Norway'
- Smith, Frank, Thomsen, Finn A.Genealogical Guidebook & Atlas of Norway, (Logan Utah: The Everton Publishers, Inc., 1979)
- 'Scotland'
- Perceval-Maxwell, M., The Scottish Migration to Ulster in the Reign of James I, (New York: Humanities Press, 1990)
- 'United States'
- Family Histories
- Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book of Emigrants 1607-1660, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Col., Inc., 1987)
- Davis, David C., Some Ancestors and Descendants of Benjamin Jacob Davies/Davis Llangadfan, Wales and Allied Jones Families, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1996)
- Lewis, Gerald and Gloria, The Harris Family of Warrick County Indiana, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1995)
- Manchikes, Alice; Wilson, Harry McClain; Dunham, Jenna; Garbett, Jan, From Priddy's Creek to Woolper Creek: The Johnsons and Wilsons in Virginia and Kentucky, (Burlington, Kentucky: Kentucky Heritage, 2009)
- Yochim, (Mrs.) Eldred Martin, DAR Patriot Index Centennial Edition 1990, (Washington, D.C.: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, 1994), 3 volumes.
- History
- Ellis, Edward,Library of American History: A Constitutional, Biographical, Philosophical, Scientific, Geographical, Diplomatic and Military History of our Country, (Cincinnati, Ohio: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1903)
- Schafer, Joseph, History of the Pacific Northwest, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905)
- Colorado
- Leckenby, Charles H., The Tread of Pioneers, (Steamboat Springs, Colorado: The Pilot Press, 1945)
- Indiana
- Coplen, Daniel L., Kosciusko County: A Pictorial History, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1995)
- Tuley, Tom, editor, Green River Road: From Cornfields to Concrete, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1993) - History of Vanderburgh County
- Kentucky
- Wilderness Road, (Shepherdsville, Kentucky: Bullitt County Genealogical Society Quarterly Publication, March 1995). (Contents: Deeds 1798-1799; McFarland Funeral Home Death Records 1928-1934, Guardian Book C, 1895-1896, 1802 Tax List, Wills 1821-1822, McAhron Letters 1883-1900, 1857 Deaths, Blaxton Gentry's Posterity, Ancestor Charts: Raleigh, Belt, Crow, Clevidence, Sparks, Skinner).
- Manchikes, Alice; Wilson, Harry McClain; Dunham, Jenna; Garbett, Jan, From Priddy's Creek to Woolper Creek: The Johnsons and Wilsons in Virginia and Kentucky, (Burlington, Kentucky: Kentucky Heritage, 2009).
- Schmitz, Raymond A., St. John's Catholic Church Covington, Kentucky 1854-2004, (T & W Printing, 2006)
- Nebraska
- Dobbs, Hugh J., History of Gage County, Nebraska, (Lincoln, Nebraska: Western Publishing and Engraving Company, 1918)
- Skinner, Shirley M., Pioneer Stories of Brown, Keya Paha and Rock Counties in Nebraska, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1980) Virginia
- Maphet, Ernestine, To Climb A Mountain, (Mt. Vernon, Indiana: Windmill Publications, Inc., 1997)
- Ohio
- The Bicentennial Guide to Greater Cincinnati: A Portrait of Two Hundred Years, The Cincinnati Historical Society, (Cincinnati, Ohio, 1988).
- Clermont County, Ohio Marriages 1850-1874, CLermont County Gen. Society, (Baltimore, 1989).
- The Cincinnati Post, They Built a City: 150 Years of Industrial Cincinnati, (Cincinnati, Ohio: 1938).
- Devereux, C. A. R., Mrs. Devereux's Blue Book of Cincinnati Society for the years 1910-11, (Cincinnati, Ohio: 1910).
- McQueen, Thomas B., Cincinnati Country, (Cincinnati, Ohio: 1980).
- Ohio Archaeological and Historical Quarterly, (Columbus, Ohio: Press of Fred J. Heer 1909), Vol. XVIII. January, 1909, No. 1. (Contents: A New Serpent Mound in Ohio, The Mound Builders of Cincinnati, Symmes' Theory, Early Days in Ohio, Rutland - "The Cradle of Ohio," Morgan's Raid).
Databases and Software[edit | edit source]
- FamilySearch Center Portal This center has access to the FamilySearch Center Portal page which gives free access in the center to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
Hardware and Equipment[edit | edit source]
- Computers
- Printer
Center Services[edit | edit source]
Staff Research Specialties[edit | edit source]
Resources in the Local Area[edit | edit source]
Boone County Public Library
Campbell County Historical & Genealogical Society
Kenton County Public Library: Great collection for all of Northern Kentucky Research
Links[edit | edit source]
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