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VIDEO PASS INCLUDEST203 Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African

American Ancestors who came out of Slavery LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson

T217 The Price of Loyalism: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War Terry Koch-Bostic

T230 The YDNA Test Should be your Favorite Diahan Southard

T250 Your Cousins Are Your Secret Weapon Angie Bush

T260 Native American DNA: Separating Fact From Fiction Blaine Bettinger

F301 History, Records and Context: Researching the Locations Your Ancestors Lived Angela Packer McGhie

F311 Samuel Witter vs. Samuel Witter: Separating Same-Name Soldiers, War of 1812 Elizabeth Shown Mills

F321 Using Indirect and Negative Evidence to Prove Unrecorded Events Thomas Wright Jones

F341 A Matter of Standards: DNA and the GPS Judy G. Russell

F351 Deeper Analysis: Techniques for Successful Problem-Solving Elissa Scalise Powell

AUDIO PASS INCLUDESW121 The Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) is Your

Friend, not Your Enemy David RencherW122 Give Me…Your Huddled Masses Yearning to

Breathe Free: Immigration and Naturalization Jeanne Larzalere Bloom

W123 Turn a Name into a Life Story by Researching, Reasoning, and ‘Riting Thomas Wright Jones

W124 Follow the Rivers 1790–1825: Trails that opened the Northwest Territory Carrie Eldridge

W125 Hierarchy of Research Archives in Ohio Kelli Jo Bergheimer

W126 Statistically Speaking—the Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Vital Record Research Vic Dunn

W127 The Goldmine of Military Pensions Rick SayreW129 Yeast, Grain, Hops, and Water: the Impact of

Beer in American History Jen BaldwinW130 Helen M. Leary Distinguished Lecture

Growing Trees with Good DNA: Case Studies in Genetic Genealogy David Ouimette

W141 What Do I Really Have Here? Analyzing Sources Effectively Ruth Ann Abels Hager

W142 They Came to Canada Kathryn Lake HoganW143 Dutch Genealogy 101: Finding your Ancestors

from the Netherlands Yvette HoitinkW144 Third Coast: How the Great Lakes Shaped

America Cari A. TaplinW146 Discovering Minister Isaac Steele and his

Family Using Land Records and Manuscripts J. Mark Lowe

W148 Google Photos—A Technical Deep Dive Mark Steven Middleton

W149 English Occupation and Guild Records Paul Milner

W150 How DNA and Traditional Research Led an Adopted Daughter to her Birth Mother: Kelly’s Story Karen S. Franklin; Kelly Moore

W151 Analyze This! Scrutinizing Evidence for Problem Solving Vic Dunn

W152 Tracing your Dutch Immigrant Ancestor from Home to Here Janet Sjaarda Sheeres

W153 Using Evidence Creatively: Spotting Clues in Run-of-the-Mill Records Elizabeth Shown Mills

W155 Virtue, Liberty, and Independence: Pennsylvania Research Kristin Harms

W156 Wholes Not Holes: Complete Census Research Not Swiss Cheese C. Ann Staley

W157 Tracing Your Ancestors through Military Records Shirley Gage Hodges

W158 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do Online—WOW! Carolyn Joy Webber

W159 Digging for Gold: Locating British Miners and their Records Paul Milner

W160 Finding Family with DNA Testing Richard HillT201 The Poor and the Landless: Correlating

Indirect Evidence to Build a Proof Argument Rick Sayre

T202 German Trails—Leaving European Homes and Locating Across America Carrie Eldridge

T204 No Car—Did Your Ancestors Come by Passenger Rail Car? Karen L. Molohon

T205 Researching your New England Ancestors Online and in Repositories David Allen Lambert

T206 Navigating the Records of the United Kingdom on Findmypast Thomas McGill

T207 Volunteer Heroes: Militia to National Guard Alice Hoyt Veen

T208 Digital Preservation Eric John WellsT209 From Nails to Plows: Blacksmiths and Their

Contributions to Midwestern Development Annette Burke Lyttle

T210 Getting Your Results is Just the Beginning Jim Brewster

T212 For Family, Faith, and Fortune: Emigration from the Netherlands in the 1800s Yvette Hoitink

T213 The Discriminating Genealogist: Telling Good Evidence from Bad Judy G. Russell

T214 The Lincoln Highway: The First National Memorial to Abraham Lincoln Bruce B. Butgereit

T215 Midwestern Research on Ancestry Juliana M. Szucs

T216 Researching the Poor: Tips for Researching the Less than Successful Darryn Lickliter

T219 Grinding Out a Living: Millers & Millwrights Lori Thornton

T220 Advancing Your Genealogy Research with DNA Anna Swayne

T222 How Did My Pennsylvania Ancestors Get Here? Migration Trails West Elissa Scalise Powell

T223 Reasonably Exhaustive Research: The First Criteria for Genealogical Proof Elizabeth Shown Mills

T224 French-Canadian Migrations Out of Québec Judy Nimer Muhn

T225 Ohio: A Genealogy Treasure Dana PalmerT226 Your Ancestors’ World Revealed: Using 19th-

Century Newspapers for Family History John Philip Colletta

T227 Researching American Military Service in the Revolution Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer

T229 Reconstructing the Lives of Your Farming Ancestors Annette Burke Lyttle

T241 Mind Mapping as Method: Focusing Your Research Question Amy Larner Giroux

T242 Westward Migration from New England to the Midwest Julie Miller

T243 When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Records Judy G. Russell

T244 Tragedy of the Phoenix: A Ship Disaster in Lake Michigan Mary Risseeuw

T245 Fifteen Tools for Tracing Your New York Ancestors Online D. Joshua Taylor

T246 Making Those Early Census Records Talk J. Mark Lowe

T247 Tracing Your Civil War Ancestors James N. Jackson

T248 Surviving the Digital Dark Ages—Backups and Archiving Mark Steven Middleton

T251 Valid and Unsound Assumptions: What Was She Thinking? Jeanne Larzalere Bloom

T252 Moving North: Migration from the Carolinas and Tennessee to the Midwest Lori Thornton

T253 Making Good Use of Direct and Indirect Evidence Amy Harris

T254 Crossing the Border: How to Backtrack a French-Canadian into Quebec from the US David Ouimette

T255 Using Michigan Records to Reconstruct a New England Family Thomas Wright Jones

T257 Getting to Know Fold3: The Web’s Premier Collection of Original Military Records Gordon Atkinson

T258 Google Mapping Your Ancestors’ Footsteps Pamela Boyer Sayre

T259 Men At Work: Occupational Records Rorey Cathcart

T261 Going on a Research Trip—NGS Style Patricia Walls Stamm

T262 Using Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogical and Archival Research Brooke Schreier Ganz

F302 The Great Migration: Tracking African Americans To Northern Industrial Cities Ari Wilkins

F303 Glory to God! Dutch Christian Reformed Church: Online, Parish and Archive Records Jill Morelli

F304 New Strategies in German Research with an Emphasis on Jewish Research Karen S. Franklin

F305 Michigan Roots: Genealogy Research in the Wolverine State Kris W. Rzepczynski

F306 Probate Laws and Records in Scandinavian Countries Geoffrey Fröberg Morris

F307 Company K of the Michigan First Sharpshooters (The “Indian” Company) James N. Jackson

F308 Slave Tags: A Southern Legal System That Mandated Tagging Slaves & Free People of Color Janis Minor Forte

F309 Help Wanted? Learning to Use Newspapers.com Peter Drinkwater

F310 Discovering your family history with MyHeritage’s unique technologies and DNA Daniel Horowitz

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F312 Migration Patterns of Germans within America Sharon Cook MacInnes

F313 Buried Treasures: What’s in the English Parish Chest Paul Milner

F314 Irish Research—Using Online Resources Rick Sayre

F315 “New Ireland”: Northfield Township, Michigan’s Irish Pioneer & Early Settler Burials Derek Blount; Abigail Eynon

F316 Pushing Up Daisies: Cemetery Research Jeanne Larzalere Bloom

F317 Anatomy of a Civil War Pension File Julie Miller

F318 Gleaning Genealogical Information About Enslaved Ancestors from the Probate Files of Slaveholding Families LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson

F320 Tracing the Tribe with DNA Schelly Talalay DardashtiF322 Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin: Dutch colonies

in the mid-1800s Mary Risseeuw

F323 Catholic History and Records in New York State Terry Koch-Bostic

F325 Early Land Records in Michigan and the Old Northwest Territory Angela Packer McGhie

F326 U.S. Passport Applications Debra S. MieszalaF327 Best Approaches for Researching World War II

Ancestors David Allen LambertF328 Free Negro Registers: A Northern Resource

Deborah A. AbbottF329 Best Practices for Research in Scandinavian

Countries Geoffrey Fröberg MorrisF342 Finding a German Heimat Online

James M. BeidlerF343 Michigan Quakers: Their History and the

Records They Left Annette Burke LyttleF346 Jewish Genealogy for Non-Jews: History,

Migration, and DNA Schelly Talalay DardashtiF347 Michigan Men of Color, Honor, and Value

Shelley Viola MurphyF349 Only a Few Bones: Case Studies in Assembling

Sources to Reconstruct Real-Life Events John Philip Colletta

F350 The Danger of Distant Genetic Matches Blaine Bettinger

F352 Single Dutch Woman Immigrating to America: Where She Came from and Where She Settled Janet Sjaarda Sheeres

F353 Mennonite Research: The Forgotten Swiss Germans Michael D. Lacopo

F354 Native, First Nations, Indian: Researching Indigenous Peoples Judy Nimer Muhn

F355 Michigan’s Anti-Slavery Newspaper: The Signal of Liberty Rochelle E. Danquah

F356 What’s Jewish About Jewish Genealogy? Janette M. Silverman

F357 Over the Top: Researching Your Michigan World War I Ancestor Kris W. Rzepczynski

F358 Searching for the Living and Connecting with the Slave Owner’s Descendants Bernice Alexander Bennett

F359 Creating Google Alerts for Genealogy Katherine R. Willson

F360 Using Genetic Communities to Tell Your Story Anna Swayne

F361 Using Research Logs and Creating Client Reports that Include DNA Results Angie Bush

F362 How the Archives of Michigan Made Digitized Death Records Available to Genealogists Jan Meisels Allen; Jan Alpert; Frederick Moss; Kris Rzepczynski

F363 Finding Answers Using Ancestry DNA Anna Swayne

F364 Using Technology to Learn NGS Style Jordan Jones

S405 Traffic Violations, Criminal Complaints and Marriages: Records of a Justice of the Peace Adam D. Oster

S407 Stickin’ to the Union: Using Labor Union Documents for Genealogical Research Jane Neff Rollins

S408 Enslaved Blacks in White Church Records: An Overlooked Resource Wevonneda Minis

S409 Creating Your Personal Continuing Education Plan Elissa Scalise Powell

S411 Transcribing Documents: There is More Than Meets the Eye! LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson

S412 Trace Your 18th and 19th Century Midwest Ancestors Back to New York Terry Koch-Bostic

S413 Unlocking Roman Catholic Records—the Catholic Heritage Archive Jen Baldwin

S414 Discovering Your Czech and Slovak Roots Lisa Alzo

S415 Menus, Housekeepers, and First Ladies: Discovering Unique Michigan Manuscript Collections Deborah A. Abbott

S416 Private Archives: What They Are and How to Use Them John Philip Colletta

S417 Keeping Green the Memory: Post-Civil War Legions, Armies, and Orders Bruce B. Butgereit

S418 The Precarious Lives of Midwest Free Blacks pre-1865 Janice C. Lovelace

S419 “Inebriety Regarded as Potomania” and Other Death-related Data Amy Larner Giroux

S420 Weaving DNA Results into A Proof Argument Karen Stanbary

S421 Evidence Correlation: Making the Most of Your Research Nancy A. Peters

S422 Three Keys to New York: State Censuses, NY Public Library, and NYG&B’s Vast Collections Susan R. Miller

S423 Squeezing Every Drop out of Polish Parish Registers David Ouimette

S424 Jumping Over Hurdles in Eastern European Research Lisa Alzo

S425 Research Collections at the Library of Michigan—An Overview Matthew Pacer

S426 Accessing and Acquiring the Records of Eastern Europe: FamilySearch Efforts 2012–2017 Greg Nelson

S427 Finding Value in Meeting Minutes: the Records of Fraternal Organizations Jen Baldwin

S428 Seven Proven Strategies for Identifying Slave Ownership and Reconstructing Families: New Paths and Trails Janis Minor Forte

S429 Trousers, Beds, Tacks & Housekeeping Bills: Problem-solving with ‘Trivial Details’ Elizabeth Shown Mills

S430 GEDmatch—Tools to Interpret DNA Matches and Find More Matches Mary Eberle

S441 Mrs. Jane Harvey and Dr. Lippincott: Triangulation and Indirect Evidence Reassemble a Pennsylvania Family Stefani Evans

S443 Casting the Net: Denominational, Ethnic and Specialized Newspaper Research Cari A. Taplin

S444 Researching Records of the Former Soviet Republics Greg Nelson

S445 Nothing in Life is Free… Unless You are Talking about NDNP…Chronicling America 1690–1963 Kimberly Hagerty

S446 Bringing Your Female Ancestors to Life with Archival Resources Jo Ellyn Clarey; Julie Tabberer

S447 Eat, Drink, and Be Merry, for Tomorrow We’re Dry: Prohibition and Its Records Kristin Harms

S448 Studying Free People of Color in Apprentice Records Ari Wilkins

S449 Inferential Genealogy: Deducing Ancestors’ Identities and Relationships Thomas Wright Jones

S450 The Emotional Side of DNA Bernice Alexander Bennett

S451 Dear Me: Writing Research Reports to Yourself Yvette Hoitink

S452 Afloat or Ashore: Tracing and Tracking Erie Canal Workers, 1817–1918 Pamela J. Vittorio

S453 The Other Side of Jewish Genealogy: Sephardic Research Schelly Talalay Dardashti

S454 Methodology for Researching your Scots-Irish Ancestors David E. Rencher

S455 Michigan Homesteaders! Shelley Viola MurphyS456 Using PERSI Like a Pro Cari A. TaplinS457 Lineage Society Papers: Guidelines for a

Successful Application C. Ann StaleyS458 The (Underground) Railroad Runs Through

Here – Ohio and Michigan Janice C. LovelaceS459 Cluster Research, or Discovering You’re

Related to the Whole Block Jessica TrotterS460 Evaluating Genealogical Conclusions Using

DNA Blaine BettingerS462 Finding Answers Using Ancestry DNA

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