Category Archives: Lectures

Becoming an American: Immigration – the process, the law and the records.

Title: Becoming an American: Immigration – the process, the law and the records.
Location: Minnesota Genealogical Society library – 1185 Concord St. N., South St. Paul, MN 55075
Description: A Czechoslovak Genealogical Society event.
Our immigrant ancestors became Americans – some how. In this lecture we will take a look at the laws and processes that made that possible and the records that were created along the way. We will learn where to find these records and what they can tell us about our family’s history.

Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-03-27
End Time: 14:30

Getting Started with your Irish Genealogy

Title: Getting Started with your Irish Genealogy
Location: Minnesota Genealogical Society library – 1185 Concord St. N., South St. Paul, MN 55075
Description: Introduction to the key tools for finding your ancestors in Ireland: most important record types, Irish geographic terms, Irish names, key Irish genealogy web sites and books.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-08-14
End Time: 11:30

Getting Started with your Irish Genealogy

Title: Getting Started with your Irish Genealogy
Location: Minnesota Genealogical Society library – 1185 Concord St. N., South St. Paul, MN 55075
Description: Introduction to the key tools for finding your ancestors in Ireland: most important record types, Irish geographic terms, Irish names, key Irish genealogy web sites and books.
Start Time: 13:00
Date: 2010-03-13
End Time: 14:30

Technology for Genealogists – Session 4

Title: Technology for Genealogists – Session 4
Location: Minnesota Genealogical Society library – 1185 Concord St. N., South St. Paul, MN 55075
Description: Capturing, saving, manipulating and cataloging of images.
Start Time: 6:00
Date: 2010-04-28
End Time: 9:00

Solving Family History Puzzles: Weaving together Evidence from Multiple Sources to Draw Genealogical Conclusions

Title: Solving Family History Puzzles: Weaving together Evidence from Multiple Sources to Draw Genealogical Conclusions
Location: Minnesota History Center – St. Paul, MN
Description: Enhance your genealogy research skills by learning how to correlate evidence from multiple sources and present clear and accurate conclusions. The instructors will use short case studies drawing on a variety of genealogical sources to illustrate good problem-solving methods.
Start Time: 11:30
Date: 2010-03-13
End Time: 12:30

A Life-time in Records: How to discover your ancestor’s life story from cradle to grave.

Title: A Life-time in Records: How to discover your ancestor’s life story from cradle to grave.
Location: Minnesota Genealogical Society library – 1185 Concord St. N., South St. Paul, MN 55075
Description: This class takes you beyond birth, marriage and death records, showing you how to tell your ancestor’s full life story through school, military, business and other records available to genealogists.
Taught with Jay Fonkert, CG

Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2010-03-13
End Time: 11:00

How Can I Be Better at Using the Internet for My Genealogy?

Title: How Can I Be Better at Using the Internet for My Genealogy?
Location: Stearns History Museum, St. Cloud, MN
Description: This lecture focuses on a series of key questions: How to do effective searches on the Internet? What are the key genealogy web sites? How do I get the most out of some of these key sites such as: familysearch.org, ancestry.com, heritage quest? What about the quality of information on the web? How do I keep track of all of this?
Start Time: 7:30
Date: 2010-04-20
End Time: 8:30