Conejo Valley Genealogical Society

CVGS Annual Seminar

Barbara Renick Internationally-known Genealogical Researcher and Speaker Topics: Eleven Layers of Online Searches Online: How You Get There Does Make a Difference What’s New at Family Search Finding Your Ancestors in Un-indexed Books

Note The following course descriptions are from Barbara Renick's web site ZRoots.com:

Eleven Layers of On-line Searches

No one search method works all the time. Both online and classic search methods have their advantages and limitations. Knowing when to switch from one type of on-line search to another and from detailed online searches to more classic media (such as books and microfilms) brings greater success. Often overlooked ways to search online (from No Name searches to refined Alphabetical Browsing techniques) are combined here with examples of the success achieved by adding these layered Internet search results to classic searches.

Online: How You Get There Does Make a Difference

This lecture provides examples from a variety of different types of Web sites where initial searches failed, but accessing the site in a different way or making the search in a different way brings positive results.

What’s New at Family Search

The FamilySearch Internet site (www.familysearch.org) provides the ability to search through multiple record collections in a multitude of ways. It contains some of the best advice online for where to search next and two ways to find resources in the Family History Library Catalog. Barbara will give us an overview and describe the newest features available for your research.

Finding Your Ancestors in Un-indexed Books

Genealogists love genealogy books and the libraries that contain them. They love even more the ability to every-word search books online. This lecture covers where to find scanned images of books online and every-word indices for those books. Also covered are resources for obtaining copies of the index, table of contents, or pages from a book that you can't find scanned and online (yet).

REGISTRATION

$30.00 for CVGS Members if received on or before April 21, 2009
$35.00 for Non-Members if received on or before April 21, 2009
$40.00 for all received after April 21, 2009
Tasty Box Lunch available for $8.00
(includes your choice of Beef, Turkey or Cheese sandwich, coleslaw, fruit, chips, and cookie)

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Please mail registration form and check payable to CVGS to:
CVGS c/o
2482 Oakshore Dr.
Westlake Village, CA 91361

For questions, email: cvgs2009seminar@aol.com

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

From 101 Freeway going North (W)
  Take Rancho Rd. Exit 43B. Turn Right on Rancho Rd., then Right on Hillcrest Dr.

From 101 Freeway going South (E)
   Take Rancho Rd. Exit 43A. Turn Left on Rancho Rd., then Right on Hillcrest Dr.

From 118 Freeway going West
   Merge onto Fwy. 23 South. Take Hillcrest Dr. Exit, then turn Left on Hillcrest Dr.

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