Going to Ohio? Be sure to check out our instructors participating at this week’s Ohio Genealogical Society’s conference in Columbus, Ohio! The conference is being held on April 11th. – 18th. Many great topics! Past SLIG instructors will be there too!
Deborah A. Abbott, Ph.D.
1. WORKSHOP: “Beginning Genealogy: Finding Your Way to the Past”
2. “Vital Records: The Cornerstone of Genealogical Research”
3. “African American Roundtable”
J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA
1. Keynote: Thursday morning “Pistol Packing Grandma”
2. “Dear Mr. President: Finding Claims and Special Pension Requests”
3. “Finding Ohio Families (in Western Manuscripts) Who Blazed New Trails”
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG
1. WORKSHOP: “Reasonably Exhaustive Research of African American Ancestors Who Were Enslaved”
2. “A Critical Step in Evaluating Old Documents”
3. “Gleaning Genealogical Information about Enslaved Ancestors from the Probate Files of Slaveholding Families”
Michael D. Lacopo, DVM
1. WORKSHOP: “Pennsylvania Courthouse Research: Adventures in the Keystone State”
2. “’She Came from Nowhere’: Using Social History in Your Research”
3. “Using mtDNA Testing for Genealogical Problem Solving”
Rich Venezia
1. “Pittsburgh Preview: Researching in the Steel City”
2. “Italians in America: Their Records, Their Stories”
3. “Emerald Isle Express: Researching Irish Ancestors”
Ari Wilkins
1. “Studying Free People of Color in Apprentice Records”
2. “The Great Migration: Twentieth Century African American Migration”
Please check the conference guide for times and room numbers or click here: http://www.ogsconference.org/
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