Lecture Topics
Finding Eliza Jane’s Family
Finding your Civil War ancestors, obtaining their pension files and compiled service records, and using these records to find your female ancestors.
Uncle Sam's Records
Finding and using military records to fill out your family tree, including records from the Revolutionary War through WW II.
Copus Hill : A Tragedy in Ohio History
A bit of Ohio History from the War of 1812, emphasizing the massacre at Copus Hill and the role of Reverend James Copus in Ohio History, presented in costume as Sarah Copus Vail, last living child of Reverend Copus, telling the story.
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May They Rest Peacefully
How a nearly destroyed 1828 cemetery was saved, the story of Cheney Cemetery, Union County, Ohio and how to save, restore, and protect the burial places of our ancestors.
Talking to the Dead
Finding and using a variety of records pertaining to an ancestor’s death, where and how to find the records, what can be found in the records about the ancestor, finding other ancestors in these records, and how one record leads to another.
The Census Taker Wrote Down What?What?
Finding your ancestors in the censuses and getting all of information you can about them from the censuses.
So You Want to do Your Family History?
Beginning Genealogy. Available as a lecture, workshop, or seminar.
Researching in Allen County, Ohio Where and how to research your ancestors in Allen County, Ohio.
Completing A Lineage Society Application
How to fill out and document a lineage society application.
Two Times Two Equals Four Times...
Pedigree charts, family group sheets, and other forms are not meant just to share the ancestors you’ve already found. Ways to use these tools to advance your research to extend your family tree and learn more about your ancestors.
Where’s the Proof?
Understanding the terms: primary, secondary, original, and derivative sources, direct and indirect evidence, and using the Genealogical Proof Standard to evaluate and analyze your research findings.
Giving Kids the "Genie Bug"
Ideas and projects to get children interested in their heritage.
Workshop Topics
Introducing Children to Their Family History
A presentation for children, including a “hands on” project. Presentation and projects vary according to the age group for which it is being presented.
So You Want to do Your Family History? Beginning Genealogy. Available as a lecture, workshop, or seminar.
Lineage Application Workshop
A workshop for anyone wanting to join a lineage society. Participants will learn how to fill out the application for a lineage society and how to make sure that the kinship is established from one generation to the next, how to find missing documentation and use secondary sources, how much is enough or too little documentation, what is acceptable documentation and how to cite sources.
DAR Consultant Workshops:
Workshop I.
A workshop to teach DAR members how to help prospective members fill out and document their applications and what the DAR genealogists look for when they are going over an application for approval. For DAR members, not prospective members.
Workshop II. A workshop for prospective members helping them learn how to fill out and document their DAR applications.
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*DAR Workshops are free and must be scheduled by a local DAR Chapter.
Other topics,workshops, and seminars can be developed
on request.