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The NGS 2018 Family History Conference Mobile App is now available! HOW TO GET IT: To download the free NGS Conference App, go to http://conference.ngsgenealogy.org/attend/mobile-app/. Or search your app store for NGS Family. If you already have the NGS mobile app on your phone from a past c...
Discovering Your Roots Has Never Been So Easy and Affordable e-ImageData, the industry leader in innovative micrographic film equipment, will showcase the ScanPro® 2200 Scan Station at this year’s NGS Conference, Booth #136. The ScanPro 2200 Scan Station, utilizes our latest innovation, the AUTO...
LECTURE TITLE: Michigan Men of Color, Honor, and Valor SESSION: F347 TIME & DATE: Friday, 04 May 2018, 2:30 p.m. SPONSOR: Midwest African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI) What do you know about Michigan’s role in the Civil War? Just over 90,000 Michigan men served during the Civil War...
The National Genealogical Society (NGS) will live stream ten lectures by nationally recognized speakers on some of the most popular topics in the field of genealogy during its 2018 Family History Conference. These lectures will be among more than 175 offered at the conference, 2−5 May 2018, in Gr...
LECTURE TITLE: Colonial Research: New York and Dutch SESSION NUMBER: S402 TIME & DATE: Saturday, 05 May 2018, 8:00 a.m. SPONSOR: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&BS) Colonial Research in New York can be rewarding if you are willing to go deep into the sources and go wide ...
TITLE: Creating Your Personal Continuing Education Plan SESSION: S409 TIME & DATE: Saturday, 5 May, 8 a.m. SPONSOR: GRIP – Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh Genealogists who desire education face real constraints of time and budget. With so many choices, it’s difficult to kn...
TITLE: Discovering your family history with MyHeritage’s unique technologies and DNA SESSION NUMBER: F310 TIME & DATE: Friday, 4 May 2018, at 8:00 a.m. SPONSOR: MyHeritage Website: https://www.MyHeritage.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MyHeritage Twitter: https://twitter.com/MyHeri...
TITLE “Westward Migration from New England to the Midwest” SESSION: T242 DATE & TIME: Thursday, 3 May 2018, 2:30 p.m. The history of the Unites States is closely connected to westward migration. After the Revolutionary War, the land west of the thirteen colonies opened for settleme...
TITLE: Google Photos – A Technical Deep Dive SESSION: W148 TIME & DATE: Thursday 03 May 2018, 2:30 pm Google introduces new services and features all the time. In 2015, they introduced a new online “cloud” photo repository called Google Photos. The features and free (no fee) aspects o...
Two Lectures by Janis Minor Forte TITLE: Slave Tags: A Southern Legal System that Mandated Tagging Slaves and Free People of Color SESSION: F308 DATE & TIME: Friday, 04 May 2018, 8:00 a.m. Used throughout the South from 1767 to 1866, the public wearing of a slave tag was required for...
