Research Like a Pro Online group - RSVP

Research Like a Pro.  My genealogy dream.  To research like a pro, that is.  If you are ready to take the plunge, let me know that you will be joining our mostly online group starting Saturday, September 21.  Just one week away.  That is the date for our one in-person introductory meeting but it is optional.  I will add you to our google group so you can receive the emails.  Our welcome to you is below. 

Welcome to the Ferndale Genies Research Like A Pro Challenge 

We would like to share with you what we learned when we took Diana Elder’s Research Like A Pro Mini-Challenge. 

There are 7 topics (see chart below). We will be doing 1 topic per week starting September 22 and ending November 9^th.  There will be an introduction meeting Saturday, Sept 21 at 1:00 at the Ferndale Library.  We thought it would be fun to go celebrate after we finish the challenge. 

You will receive 2 lessons each Sunday with the instructions for the week. You can work at your own pace. We hope everyone will share their work thru our Google Group.  When you are done with the challenge, you will have completed a mini report. It might just be a paragraph summarizing the 3 searches you did and that is fine. The purpose is to practice each of the steps and finish the whole process.        

  

We recommend reviewing the Family Locket website at https://familylocket.com/ Under their blogs you can review the Research Like a Pro in more depth as well as listen to their podcasts on each step.  They also have a book/E book “Research Like a Pro” by Diana Elder that you can order thru Amazon or Barnes and Noble.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. 

Jamie (vitalejamie2007@gmail.com) and Judith (judithculv@hotmail.com) 

Genies Meeting Monday 9/16

Genies Monthly Meeting Monday, 9/16.  1:00 at the Ferndale Library.  Don’t miss it!

My mailbox is full so I’ll start with some personal news.  David’s cousin’s adopted daughter has been a topic of discussion and work by David and Cheryl.  Now her mother has surfaced and the father’s name is known.  Whoopee!  Rick Bell is alive and well in North Carolina and the foundation has been poured for their new house.  Lastly, Sylvia is back from the east and Linda B. and family are off to Prince Edward Island to visit the homeland of her husband’s ancestors.  No grass grows under our feet. 

Linda B. and I are planning for RootsTech 2020 next February in Salt Lake City.  Maybe some others will be to.  Registration opens on September 18^th and hotel discounts have been announced.  This is the largest genealogy conference anywhere, approaching 30,000 participants.  Details are here:  https://www.rootstech.org/

The Skagit Valley Genealogical Society September program is about DNA Painter.  This website is used to compare your DNA to others.  It’s kind of technical so you won’t hear me talking about it unless I learn an awful lot at this presentation.  Come this Saturday 9/14 at the Burlington Library from 1:00 until 3. 

Lastly, we are giving a shout out to DNA expert CeCe Moore.  The headline is “Idaho man freed in wrongful conviction case after 20 years in prison.”  It’s the first time that genealogy has been used successfully in a wrongful conviction case.   Way to go, CeCe.  This case gives us one more reason to opt-in at GedMatch to give law enforcement access to our DNA.  Previously they could use all 1.5 million profiles.  Since we have been required to opt-in, they only have access to 100,000.

See you at the Genies meeting!