FSGS Speakers Bureau

Paul L. Enchelmayer

Current Lecture Topics

Topics focus on the use of personal computers, family photo collections, and general genealogy fundamentals.

• The Deceptive Ancestor? - Separating Family Fiction from Fact (How much proof is enough? - explaining the "Genealogical Proof Standard")
• Google, Bing, Yahoo -  the Genealogist's Best Friends (Popular Internet search tools and utilities offer so much more)
  
• Unconventional Genealogy Research: Of Privies and Progenitors (Using some non-traditional Internet tools to research family history, including blogs, podcasts, facebook, and more.)
  
• Genealogy Software - Getting Started (Comparing and demonstrating features)
  
• Sharing Your Genealogy on the Internet - New Ways to Create Family History Web Pages (Personal and family websites using "WEB 2.0" and social collaboration tools)
  
• Storing and Restoring Family Photos ... in the Digital Age (Important advice on giving photos long, renewed lives)
  
• Restoring Family Photos Yourself! (A demonstration of commercial and free photo software)
  
• Genealogy Jumpstart! (A three-hour crash course on genealogy fundamentals with a focus on technology)
  

Willing to travel up to 150 miles, possibly more.

Genealogy groups

• Florida State Genealogical Society 2006 Annual Conference, Melbourne
• 12 LDS Annual Family History Workshops, Orlando and Kissimmee
• Sons of the American Revolution, Orlando Chapter
• East-Central Florida Genealogical Societies Co-op Convention, Melbourne
• plus over 20 local genealogical societies and clubs throughout Florida

Other groups

• University Club of Winter Park
• Rotary Club, Winter Park
• Lake Henry Computer Users Group, Polk County
• Business Alumni Seminar, Rollins College, Winter Park
• Regional and International Conventions of American Mensa, Orlando
• Central Florida Computer Society, Orlando

Memberships

• Central Florida Genealogical Society
• Florida State Genealogical Society
• National Genealogical Society
• Hamilton County Chapter (Cincinnati), Ohio Genealogical Society
• CompTIA "A-Plus" computer technologist certification

Biography

 

Bio:

Paul L. Enchelmayer is well-traveled in Florida, speaking at nearly two dozen societies and clubs, presenting programs to help others learn how technology can aid in family history projects. He is Chairman of the Genealogy Group of the University Club of Winter Park, Past-President (and current webmaster) of the Central Florida Genealogical Society in Orange County, a member (and webmaster) of the Florida State Genealogical Society's Speakers Bureau, a member of the National Genealogical Society, and the Hamilton County Genealogical Society in Cincinnati.

Paul's key research areas have included Stuttgart, Germany; Chicago, and Cincinnati. Several trips to Germany have yielded many newfound cousins, family stories, and reams of data. Through the Internet he has found even more relatives and resources from Austria to Australia.

Paul recently retired as Manager of Information Systems Development for the City of Orlando's Information Technology Department. He is also retired from the U. S. Navy Reserve. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree from University of Miami and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Broadcast Media from Southern Illinois University. He has two sons and two grandchildren.