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All NGS 2020 On-Demand packages include the sessions from NGS 2020 Live! and up to 21 sponsored bonus sessions, available beginning 1 July 2020. Packages can be purchased in June on the PlaybackNGS website.

NGS 2020 LIVE! Sessions

224  Blaine T. Bettinger “What If? Learning About DNA Through Case Studies”

351  Thomas Wright Jones “Validating Unsourced Online Information”

321 Elizabeth Shown Mills “Turning Witnesses into Evidence”

248  Judy G. Russell “Breaker Boys and Spinner Girls: Child Labor Laws and their Records”

520  Steffani Raff “Echoes of the Women Who have Gone Before—Celebrating Women’s Suffrage”

216  Crista Cowan “What’s New on Ancestry”

521  Ron Tanner “What’s New on FamilySearch”

522  Janine Cloud “DNA Testing—It’s Not Just Ethnicity,” FamilyTreeDNA

Session IDTitleRoomOrderDateTimesorttimeTrackSpeakersSponser
NGS2104-REC-01Fraternal Organizations: The Original Social Network0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDanni Altman-Newell
NGS2104-AA-02Pitfalls and Best Practices in African American Genealogical Research0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amAfrican-AmericanLeslie Anderson, MSLS
NGS2104-AA-04Establishing the True Identities of “Felix Richards' Slaves”0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amAfrican-AmericanAmy Bertsch
NGS2104-WRI-01Writing to Preserve Family History0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amWritingShelley Bishop
NGS2104-HER-01Irish Research0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amHeritageMichael Brophy
NGS2104-DNA-01Creating a Research Plan for DNA Testing0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDNAShannon Combs-Bennett
NGS2104-MIG-01When Luck Comes: Northern Neck Out-Migrations and the Georgia Land Lotteries0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMigrationB. Douglas Conley
NGS2104-DNA-02How Home DNA Testing is Changing Family Histories and the Implications for American Culture0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDNALibby Copeland
NGS2104-REL-01Strategies for Reading German Church Records0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amReligionDeb Cyprych
NGS2104-STA-02Kentucky Research Roadmap: Step by Step Plan to Find Kentucky Ancestors0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amStatesCheri Daniels, MSLS
NGS2104-HER-02Jewish Genealogy for the Non-Jew0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amHeritageSchelly Talalay Dardashti
NGS2104-VIR-01The Ferrell House: A Case Study in Online Virginia Historic Property Research0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaKatie Quick Derby
NGS2104-MET-01Too Many Sylvester Welches in Virginia! Untangling Same-Name Scenarios0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMethodologyVic Dunn, CG
NGS2104-BCG-01Misled by Records: Identifying Adam Cosner's Parentage0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGPam Stone Eagleson, CG
NGS2104-HER-03Latin American Genealogy 1010Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amHeritageAlec Ferretti, MLS
NGS2104-HER-04French-Canadian Genealogy: Getting Started0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amHeritageMargaret R Fortier, CG
NGS2104-BCG-02Faded Echoes of the Civil War: Correlating Evidence of Identity and Kinship0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGAmy Larner Giroux, PhD, CG, CGL
NGS2104-AA-03Creating a Sustainable Model for Restoring Historic African American Cemeteries: A Case Study0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amAfrican-AmericanBrett GlymphViola Osborne Baskerville
NGS2104-VIR-03Virginia Naturalization Records, 1657/8-19520Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaCara F. Griggs, MSLIS
NGS2104-MIG-02East of the Blue Ridge: Roads, Their Development, and Their Effect on Family Migrations0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMigrationEric G. Grundset, MLS
NGS2104-BCG-03Extending DNA Evidence: More is Better0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGPatti Lee Hobbs, CG
NGS2104-MET-02Don’t Ignore the Sisters: The Keys to Unlocking Genealogical Mysteries0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMethodologyKaren Mauer Jones, CG, FGBS, FUGA
NGS2104-BCG-04Building a Case with Scant Evidence0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGThomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, FASG, FUGA, FNGS
NGS2104-TEC-01Using the Online National Archives Catalog for Fun and Genealogical Profit0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amTech TipsClaire Kluskens, JD
NGS2104-MIL-02Civil War Records – Going Beyond NARA Pension Files0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMilitaryTerry Koch-Bostic
NGS2104-BCG-05Besieged by Baxters: A Case Study for a Common Name0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGRebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL
NGS2104-BCG-06Their Mark Here: Signatures and Marks as Identifying Tools0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGNicole Gilkison LaRue, CG
NGS2104-BCG-07It’s All About Location, Putting Our Ancestors on a Map0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGBarbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS
NGS2104-IMM-01European Immigrant Ancestors: Why They Left and How They Got Here, 1865–19200Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amImmigrationNancy E. Loe, MLS
NGS2104-MET-03Are You a Hare or a Tortoise? Reevaluating Your Strategies Like a Forensic Detective0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMethodologySharon Cook MacInnes, PhD, CG
NGS2104-LM-01Exhausted All the Deeds? Use Other Land Records to Uncover Even More Valuable Information0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amLand and MapsDavid M. McCorkle
NGS2104-BCG-08Strategies for Resolving Conflicting Evidence0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGAngela Packer McGhie, CG
NGS2104-BCG-10Content and Context: Conducting a Literature Search0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGJill Morelli, CG
NGS2104-LM-03Hidden Gems in Deeds0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amLand and MapsDana Ann Palmer, CG, CGL
NGS2104-REC-05Journey Through Ledgers Where Genealogical Gems Abound0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amRecordsDiane L Richard
NGS2104-MET-04Genealogy of a Neighborhood: Urban and Rural0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMethodologyMary Risseeuw
NGS2104-REC-06Government Grunts: Researching Ancestors Who Worked for the Government0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amRecordsJane Neff Rollins
NGS2104-BCG-11May I Please Have Your Permission? Using the Work of Others0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGJudy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
NGS2104-IMM-02Becoming American: Research with Naturalization Records0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amImmigrationKris W. Rzepczynskim MLIS
NGS2104-AA-05Researching Free People of Color in Antebellum Years: 1800–18650Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amAfrican-AmericanRenate Yarborough Sanders
NGS2104-STA-06Research in Washington, DC0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amStatesPamela Boyer Sayre, CG, FUGA
NGS2104-LM-04Using Maps of the Mid-Atlantic Region to Further Your Genealogical Research0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amLand and MapsRick Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA
NGS2104-TEC-02Google Translate and Genealogy: What You Should Be Using Instead0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amTech TipsKatherine Schober
NGS2104-DNA-05The Power of the “Other” DNA Tests0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDNADiahan Southard
NGS2104-REC-07"Climatic Clues" - Our Ancestors Weathering Their Lives0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amRecordsC. Ann Staley, CG, CGL
NGS2104-BCG-12Chasing Opportunity from Bas Rhin to Burlington, Iowa0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGKaren Stanbary, CG
NGS2104-WRI-02Righting Your Wrongs Through Writing0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amWritingLori Thornton, MLS
NGS2104-BCG-13Grains of Salt: Analyzing Sources, Information, and Evidence0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGAlice Hoyt Veen, CG
NGS2104-VIR-08The Fragility of Freedom: Kinney Family Freedom Suits in Virginia and Missouri0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaRobert Vernon
NGS2104-HER-05Tracking Down Your Eastern European Ancestors0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amHeritagePam Vestal
NGS2104-REL-02Mennonite and Brethren Research: Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Beyond0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amReligionKristin R. Wenger
NGS2104-REL-03Ancestor’s Religions in the U.S.0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amReligionCarol Wright Whitton, CG
NGS2104-AA-06Unique African American Records0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amAfrican-AmericanAri Wilkins
NGS2104-AA-01Strategies and Techniques in African American Research: Finding the Enslaved, and More0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amAfrican-AmericanDeborah A. Abbott, PhD
NGS2104-DNA-08Solving a Virginia Mystery Using DNA0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDNAPaula Williams
NGS2104-REC-02House and Land Histories for Genealogical Purposes0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amRecordsShannon Combs-Bennett
NGS2104-RES-02Using Bibles in Genealogical Research0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amResearch FoundationsPam Stone Eagleson, CG
NGS2104-MIL-01“Charley keep my gun clean”: Documenting Love and Loss During the Civil War0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMilitaryAmy Larner Giroux, PhD, CG, CGL
NGS2104-MIL-03Rare Revolutionary Bounty Land Scrip Act Applications0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMilitaryRebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL
NGS2104-RES-03“Is that an L or an S: Transcribing Documents to Meet Standards”0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amResearch FoundationsNicole Gilkison LaRue, CG
NGS2104-MIG-03Early Settlement on the Western Waters (Virginia, Kentucky and What Became West Virginia)0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMigrationBarbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS
NGS2104-STA-04Think your ancestor was a frontier Pennsylvanian? Check Virginia records.0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amStatesSharon Cook MacInnes, PhD, CG
NGS2104-LM-02Homestead Records: A Goldmine for Genealogy0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amLand and MapsAngela Packer McGhie, CG
NGS2104-REC-03Carriers of News and Knowledge: Post Office Records0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amRecordsJulie Miller, CG, CGL, FNGS
NGS2104-REC-04Refugees are White, Freedmen were Black; Gems from the Freedmen Bureau0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amRecordsShelley Viola Murphy, DM
NGS2104-MIG-04Buckeye Expansion: Migration into Ohio0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMigrationDana Ann Palmer, CG, CGL
NGS2104-WOM-01In Her Own Words – Lives of Women Through Diaries, Journals, Correspondence and More0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amWomenDiane L Richard
NGS2104-MET-05Really? Proving and Refuting Family Lore0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMethodologyMary Kircher Roddy, CG
NGS2104-DNA-03"To protect people who provide DNA samples": The Ethics of DNA Testing0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDNAJudy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
NGS2104-DNA-04What's Done in the Dark... DNA Doesn't Lie!0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDNARenate Yarborough Sanders
NGS2104-MIL-04Finding Military Records in Published Sources0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMilitaryRick Sayre, CG, CGL, FUGA
NGS2104-VIR-07The Pension Office: Getting the Old Men Paid in Virginia0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaCraig Roberts Scott, CG, FUGA
NGS2104-DNA-06Your DNA Research Log: How to Stay Organized0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDNADiahan Southard
NGS2104-DNA-07Creation of a Meaningful Lump of Wax out of Teeny, Tiny Drips0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDNAKaren Stanbary, CG
NGS2104-STA-07Mississippi Roots: Finding Your Magnolia State Ancestors0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amStatesLori Thornton, MLS
NGS2104-RES-04Timelines: Your Ancestor’s Lifeline!0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amResearch FoundationsAlice Hoyt Veen, CG
NGS2104-VIR-09The Art and Mysterie of Colonial Apprenticeships0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaRobert Vernon
NGS2104-RES-01The Good, Bad, and Ugly Truth about Published Genealogies0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amResearch FoundationsShannon Combs-Bennett
NGS2104-VIR-02Before Virginia: Finding the Origins of Colonial Immigrants0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaVic Dunn, CG
NGS2104-VIR-04404 Years of Sources: Virginia's General Assembly, Governors, and the Records They Created0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaEric G. Grundset, MLS
NGS2104-STA-03The Hunt for Maryland Vital Records0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amStatesRebecca Whitman Koford, CG, CGL
NGS2104-STA-05Research Maryland Deeds Online Using MDLandRec.net and Plats.net0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amStatesAngela Packer McGhie, CG
NGS2104-BCG-09Negative Evidence & Negative Findings: Appraising the Significance of “Missing Information”0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amBCGElizabeth Shown Mills, CG, CGL, FASG, FNGS, FUGA
NGS2104-MET-06The Common Law: From Mr. Justice Blackstone to Mr. Justice Tucker0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amMethodologyJudy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
NGS2104-WOM-02Reclaiming Their Rights: Female Legislative Petitions and Divorce0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amWomenAlice Hoyt Veen, CG
NGS2104-VIR-05Little Maps of the Land: Surveys and Surveyors' Records in Virginia Genealogical Research0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaEric G. Grundset, MLS
NGS2104-VIR-06Virginia Probate: The Records and the Law0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amVirginiaBarbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS
NGS2104-STA-01Researching at the Tennessee State Library and Archives, At Home!0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amStatesMelissa Barker
NGS2104-SP-21Preparing to Write0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amWritingCraig Roberts Scott, CG, FUGA
NGS2105-CM-01Finding Good Material for Society Newsletters0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDeb Cyprych
NGS2105-CM-02Focused Learning and Collaboration: Special Interest Groups in Your Genealogical Society0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amPaula Kay Williams
NGS2105-CM-03Website and Social Media Communication and Content Strategies for Societies0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amLaura Hedgecock
NGS2105-CM-04Using Your Genealogy Society’s Email List to Nurture and Grow Your Society0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 am
NGS2105-GS-01Lessons Learned from the Pandemic0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amJill Morelli, CG
NGS2105-GV-01Online Meetings: Helping Your Society Move into a Virtual World0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amCheri Hudson Passey
NGS2105-GV-02Don’t Reinvent the Wheel: Use the TxSGS Preservation Capture System for Your Society’s Digitization0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amJohn Wylie
NGS2105-GV-03Going Virtual with the Next Generation: Involving Younger People in Virtual Meetings0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amDaniel Earl
NGS2105-GV-04Digital Marketing for the Modern Society0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amAnne Merrell
NGS2105-ME-01Society Management—Volunteer Motivations: Getting and Keeping Your Volunteers0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amJudy Nimer Muhn
NGS2105-ME-02A Walk Among the Tombstones: Preparing for and Presenting a Cemetery Tour0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amElaine M. Kuhn, MLS
NGS2105-ME-03Event Management Intro for Local Genealogy Societies0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amReed Berkeley Powell
NGS2105-ME-04Grow Your Society with Quality Events0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 am
NGS2105-NGS-01After the Merger: Society Support Under NGS Leadership0Your Lecture Options2024031903-19-202402:41 amCheri Hudson Passey