NGS Conference Richmond Virginia – Day 2 #NGS2014gen

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It was another busy but fun day. I started by attending Lisa Alzo’s lecture “Family History Writing Made Easier: Cloud-Based Tools Every Genealogist Can Use” and as usual she was terrific. Lisa provided so many new tools to help with writing your family history it may take a while to try them all out. It was a full class for eight in the morning.

After a short break it was a lecture by Nathan W. Murphy, AG of FamilySearch. His lecture was “FamilySearch Wiki Guide to English Research” and it was very informative. A little good luck for me is the fact that there are a lot of parish records for Lancashire where my ancestors can be found. You will also find a link to the England Jurisdictions 1851 map through the county pages and it is a very useful tool.

The last lecture of the morning was Stephani Evans, CG who presented “Oh, the Things you Can Map: Mapping Data, Memory, and Historical Content.” She provided many different kinds of maps to help with your research and warned us to make sure we knew the reason the map was created. This reason can skew a map in many different directions.

Next it was time for lunch. I attended the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Luncheon. The speaker was Naomi Joshi and her topic was “How to Assemble a Weighty Tome and Survive the Experience.” Naomi had the audience in stitches with her presentation. She was so funny with all the things that happened while creating the new New York State research book and gazetteer. It is due out some time this year and will be a weighty 600 pages long. Sounds like it will be a must add to your genealogical library if you do research in New York State.

After lunch there was a little time to wander the marketplace. I still have a few more exhibitors to visit that I noted in the NGS app.

The first afternoon lecture was “The Memory Ninja: Using Pinterest to Engage Your Family in Memory Collection” by Cheri J. Daniels, MSLS. I have wondered about Pinterest for a while and now I think I may give it a try.

The last lecture of the day for me was Paul Milner’s “Scottish Maps and Tools for Finding the Right Place.” This was a very useful lecture about where to find and how to read Scottish maps. Paul had a little technical difficulty at the beginning but he got things going again quickly and never missed a beat.

Tomorrow is another busy day and I have another full day of lectures. There is one problem – I have a couple of times that I have more than one lecture I want to attend. I guess I will have to choose and get recordings of the others. Thank goodness there is that option.

 

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