SA22 Understanding and Exploring DNA-Based Unlinked Family Clusters Saturday, 24 May 2025, 11:15 a.m., Grand Ballroom A/B This lecture explores the emerging phenomenon of unlinked family clusters in genetic genealogy, where groups of DNA matches that (usually) have an identifiable common ancestor ca...

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SA13 A Day in the Life: Creating a Compelling and Documented Family Short Story Saturday, 24 May 2025, 10:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom A/B Genealogists value the power and legacy of the written word. We all love to research. Some love to write. Others, fueled by intimidation and self-doubt, guiltily proc...

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SU22 Documenting Lives: Plantation Records as a Window into the Enslaved Experience Sunday, 25 May 2025, 11:00 a.m., French room This presentation will delve into what plantation records reveal about the daily lives of families, living conditions, rules, and work expectations of enslaved individuals...

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SA21 Bits and Pieces: Merging Identity Fragments to Reconstruct Lives Saturday, 24 May 2025, 12:15 p.m., Carroll Ford Ancestors left identity fragments across time and space. Learn how to merge those fragments into lives, and how to avoid the same name-different person trap. This is a GenThink lect...

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SU56 How You Can Help Support Records Preservation and Access Sunday, 25 May 2025, 4:00 p.m., Stopher room A review of recent record access challenges at the state and federal level. Learn how you can help advocate for greater records access. We will discuss RPAC’s April 2024 visit with legisl...

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SA15 Using the New Chronicling America Historic Newspaper database for Genealogical Research Saturday, 24 May 2025, 9:45 a.m., Stopher Presentation will focus on using the Library of Congress’s new Chronicling America website for genealogical research. He will introduce the new interface that has ...

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FR01 Land Mapping Using Metes and Bounds Friday, 23 May 2025, 2:00-5:00 p.m., Combs Chandler room Knowing exactly where ancestors lived is critical for finding neighbors and understanding their community and living situations. For the original colonies, there are typically no maps showing this, so b...

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SU05 Ways of Life: Tracing Ancestral Pathways, Power, and Production through the Control of Water Sunday, 25 May 2025, 9:00 a.m., Stopher As researchers we use all types of records. Why not records dealing with the everyday commodity of water. It’s not just for drinking! How was it used to suppor...

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SU12 Courting Kentucky: The Courts of the Bluegrass State Sunday, 25 May 2025, 9:30 a.m., Grand Ballroom A/B Understanding the roles of Kentucky’s courts and the records our ancestors left there is crucial to finding clues to family history. This session will provide an overview of Kentucky judici...

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SU52 The Power of DNA: Tracing Your Enslaved Kentucky Ancestors Sunday, 25 May 2025, 4:00 p.m., French This session will focus on using genetic genealogy to solve brick walls for individuals with enslaved ancestors born in Kentucky. She will present a series of case studies throughout the entire Com...

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