Florida State Genealogical Society
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Thursday, June 20
FSGS Poolside Chats Webinar Series "Cloud-Based Service & How They Can Help Your Society"  (June)
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm - on line
Presented by Drew Smith - Email: info@flsgs.org
Cloud-Based Service & How They Can Help Your Society
 
Free Webinar.  Watch for the registration link about 14 days before the webinar.
 
Registration is required!  Attendance is limited to 100 attendees.  Please share the information with your local society leaders especially.

Sunday, June 23
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando Monthly Meeting  (June)
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm - SW Orlando Jewish Congregation, Social Hall, 11200 S. Apopka Vineland Road, Orlando, FL 32836
Presented by Crista Cowan - Web: www.jgsgo.blogspot.com
Join the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando (JGSGO) for a program featuring Ancestry.com’s expert, Crista Cowan, “Smarter Searching on Ancestry.com”.    Shaky leaf hints. Global searches. Database specific. Fuzzy. Exact. These are just a few of the ways to locate records on Ancestry.com. You can search by person or location.  You can use the Card Catalog to discover what is online before you begin your search.  You can change your collection priority to focus on records specific to your Jewish ancestry and utilize the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex. Join Crista Cowan as she shares her best search tips and tricks to help you find all of the information available on Ancestry.com about your ancestors. Crista will be speaking over the Internet from Ancestry.com’s headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Crista Cowan has been employed at Ancestry.com, the company that sponsors the popular TV series, “Who Do You Think You Are?” and is the leader in the market for online family history research with more than 2.5 million subscribers, since 2004. Her interest in family history, however, reaches all the way back to childhood.  She is a popular genealogy teacher.  You can watch her live internet show – The Barefoot Genealogist – every Tuesday and Thursday at 1:00 pm (Eastern) on http://livestream.com/ancestry.  Ancestry.com has partnered with JewishGen®, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), the American Jewish Historical Society and The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. to create the world’s largest online collection of Jewish historical records.  Crista’s lectures are always amongst the most popular lectures at the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) annual conference. Crista will be a guest lecturer at this year’s IAJGS conference in Boston, August 4-9, 2013. To learn more about the 250+ lectures and workshops on Jewish genealogy at IAJGS Boston 2013, visit www.iajgs2013.org. 
 
Free for Members; $5 for guests
no meal
 
contact: jgsgo.programs@gmail.com

Saturday, July 20
Summer Community Workshop Series: Writing Your Family's History  (July)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm - Public History Center, 301 West 7th Street, Sanford, Florida 32771
$25 registration fee; no meal. Payment accepted in cash or check on the day of the workshop.  For more information or questions call 407-823-3817.
RSVP to the email above.
 

Saturday, August 17
Summer Community Workshop Series: Preserving Your Family History: Scrapbooking Through the Ages  (August)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm - Public History Center, 301 West 7th Street, Sanford, FL 32771
$25 registration fee; no meal. Payment accepted in cash or check on the day of the workshop.  For more information or questions call 407-823-3817.
RSVP to the email above.