Cedar Rapids Iowa FamilySearch Center/2013 Conference
Cedar Rapids FamilySearch Center
Address
4300 Trailridge Rd SE
Cedar Rapids, IA
Phone
319-366-0964
Email
cedarrapidsfhc@gmail.com
Hours-
Tue-Wed:
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
1st & 3rd Thur:
6:00 - 9:00 pm
2nd & 4th Thur:
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
1st Saturday:
10:00 am – 1:00 pm
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- Theme: Finding Your Ancestral Treasures
- Date: Saturday, October 19, 2013
- Location: Cedar Rapids Family History Center, 4300 Trailridge Rd SE, Cedar Rapids, IA
- Keynote Speaker: TBD
- Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Registration starts at 8:30 a.m.)
FREE - EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND
Check out the schedule and class descriptions below. We'd love to have you there all day long, but if there are only a couple of classes you are interested in, please join us for those.
If you would like to volunteer to help out at the symposium please contact Kacy Novak at 319-362-0487 or 319-651-9416
Symposium Schedule[edit | edit source]
The following schedule is subject to change:
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 | Giving Back through Indexing |
Military Research | Beginning Family History |
Interviewing Tips and Technology | Collaborative Genealogy |
Find the Unfindable in the Census | German Research |
| 10:00 | Family History Center Resources |
Strategies for Tracing Immigrant Origins |
Organizing Paper and Photo Records |
Genetics and Genealogy | Beginning Roots Magic |
Danish Research | United Kingdom Research |
| 11:00 | Open For Research | Finding Living Relatives and Adoption |
Brick Walls | Writing a Family History | Beginning FamilySearch and Family Tree |
Danish Research | Internet Searching |
| 12:00 | FamilySearch Family Tree Evolution & Danish Museum Resources | ||||||
| 1:00 | Giving Back through Indexing |
Military Research | Using Reunions for Family History |
Photographing Artifacts |
Intermediate Roots Magic |
Google for the Genealogist | German Research |
| 2:00 | Family History Center Resources |
Retouching Digital Photos |
Brick Walls | Photographing Gravestones | Intermediate FamilySearch and Family Tree |
Scandinavian Research | United Kingdom Research |
| 3:00 | Open For Research |
Finding Living Relatives and Adoption |
Newspaper Research |
Heritage Scrapbooking | Find the Unfindable in the Census | Norwegian Digital Archives | Advanced Internet Research |