Showing posts with label family history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family history. Show all posts

Friday, August 18, 2023

Lianne Kruger - Durham's Sept. 5th Meeting - Telling Family Stories in 15 Minutes a Day

Telling Family Stories in 15 Minutes a Day – Lianne Kruger of “iFamily History”

Are you really going to write that 600-page family history? Stop kidding yourself! Join Durham Branch in September as Lianne Kruger shares how to record your family history as stories in only 15 minutes a day.

Trying to record your family stories can feel overwhelming. You might not be sure where to start, or what to record, how to record the history so that family and future generations will be interested in the stories. This session shares a variety of ways to record the history of family heirlooms as well as stories with items and short videos. 

Lianne Kruger is a professional genealogist and speaker specializing in Canadian records, U.S. and Canadian homesteading, video recording family history, and using technology such as Google Maps and Drive and Evernote. She has spoken for Ontario Ancestors, RootsTech, National Genealogical Society, Legacy FamilyTree Webinars and Ancestry and has published articles in many key journals.  

Lianne teaches computer software courses. She also has a Bachelor degree from Brigham Young University-Idaho, which includea a Certificate & Associate Degree in Family History Research. Lianne is also a member of the Board for mitoYDNA.org, is on the Ancestry.ca advisory board and is heavily involved in many roles with the Alberta Genealogical Society. 

She has a genealogy/technology related blog at iFamily History ( http://ifamilyhistory.blogspot.com/ ) where she shares the methodologies & technologies that she uses.


The meeting will be held at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, September 5th via Zoom & In-Person.

Kindly register for the Zoom programme via the following link:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMsdeChrjosGdEHrRINgkcdkoT6JsH9ubRk 

In-person will be in our library on the 3rd floor at Northminster United Church, 676 Simcoe St. N., Oshawa, ON (NW corner of Simcoe Street North and Rossland Road West). Parking can be limited. 


Thursday, November 27, 2014

December Meeting - Come Early for the Special Webinar!!


Come to the Durham Region Branch meeting on Tues, Dec 2 at 7 pm in the Basement Auditorium at the Oshawa Public Library, Bagot St, Oshawa (just south of the City Hall). We will be joining the OGS webinar (see description below). NOTE: This is ½ hour earlier than usual.

After the webinar, we will be having a "Show & Tell / Bring & Brag" session, followed by "pot-luck" Christmas goodies. Coffee, tea and apple cider will be provided.


Everyone is welcome!



The Write Stuff: Using Nonfiction Writing Techniques to Write a Better Family History
Tuesday December 2, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Speaker: Lisa Alzo
www.lisaalzo.com 
As genealogists we often focus on facts and uncover so much that our
research produces nothing but lists. But do you really know what happened
between the dashes of your ancestors’ lives? This presentation will discuss
how to using nonfiction writing techniques to produce a “can’t put down”
family history that will keep the pages turning for generations.

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Friday, August 19, 2011

Getting Started in Genealogy Series

These three sessions are offered at the NEW Brooklin Community Centre
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Getting Started in Genealogy
All three Workshops for only $18.55
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. - Nov. 7, 14, 21
I. Who’s Your Grandpa?
Where to begin, searching your home, talk to family, 
family data, research cycle, repositories, Internet, 
organizations, pedigree chart and family group sheets & 
descendants’ charts and more.

II. Base Camp for Family History
Organizing ideas, other researchers, places to find family histories, military records, online histories, familysearch.org, queries & message boards,
 search engines, genealogy software.

III. Vital Statistics: Births, Marriages, Deaths
This workshop’s content is more focussed and detailed.
Selected topics: sources; search techniques, documenting and more.

Offered in partnership with the 
Durham Region Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.
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Registration Begins Aug 10, 2011.
Pick up an Activity Guide at a Whitby municipal building or download . . .
See Page 4 on how and where to register & Page 52 for description.
You must have a current Senior Services Membership
Card to register for this Seniors' course.