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Liz offers the following instructional 60- or 90-minute presentations for classes, conferences, groups, and organizations. Her effective and thoughtfully designed PowerPoint presentations keep her audiences engaged. Contact Liz for more information about any of these topics or to request something else.
- Climbing Your Family Tree; Genealogy Basics (4 sessions) - Get started right! Four 90-minute sessions cover basic tools, record organization, online resources, on-site research in courthouses, churches, cemeteries, and repositories, maps, census and military records, immigration and naturalization, timelines, search tips, a bit of DNA, continuing education, and more.
- Cyber-Climbing Your Family Tree - This light-hearted presentation uses documents for famous people to demonstrate how much genealogy research can be accomplished with online resources. It's perfect for a casual hour with social groups and family history hobbyists.
- Documents + DNA, + Methods + Luck; Combining Tools to Find Biological Family - Finding an adopted child's biological family is especially challenging for genealogists. This presentation uses a success story to show how good methodology combined with document research and DNA matches (plus a dose of luck) finally put to rest a decades-old question.
- Fire, Water, and the 1890 U.S. Census; Researching Beyond the Ashes and Mold - Most genealogists are aware the 1890 federal census was destroyed by fire in 1921. Learn the story behind this historical and genealogical tragedy and how to work around the loss of that precious record.
- Finding Your Swedish Ancestor's Place of Origin - This presentation demonstrates how American records can help locate a Swedish ancestor's original home and open the door to furthering your family research in Swedish records.
- Genealogy Smart Start; Things I Wish I'd Known - Get some great tips from this genealogist who had to learn the hard way, plus a few smart tricks she picked up from experts along the way. You can start smarter than I did!
- I Got My DNA Results. Now What? - Many people take a DNA test to learn their ethnic heritage, but when the results come back they don't know what to do next. This talk offers basic and practical suggestions for getting started with your DNA results.
- I Hate Conflict; Mediating Sources that Don't Agree - Geared toward beginning and intermediate genealogists, this presentation uses a real-life example of a man for whom his name, birthplace, and birth and immigration dates all had multiple choice answers. Techniques are shared for resolving conflicting information and how professionals handle the unresolvable.
- Making Powerful-Points; Creating Slides that Captivate - Intended for genealogists who prepare PowerPoints for classes and workshops, this presentation offers tools and techniques to design slides that illustrate and emphasize your point and keep your audience's attention.
- Unlocking Notation Codes on Alien Passenger Lists - Finding an immigrant's name on a passenger list is exciting, but there's more information there than you might expect. Learn what the cryptic abbreviations and number codes jotted on U.S. customs manifests can reveal about an immigrant's experience when they arrived in "Amerika."
- Where They Once Stood; Finding Your Ancestor's Place of Origin - For many genealogists, crossing the pond to find an ancestor's place of origin in the old country is as unsurmountable as a brick wall. This presentation offers examples of American records that can break down that barrier.
- Who Hid the Body? Finding Your Ancestor's Place of Burial - It's not over 'til the fat lady sings? Nope. It's not over until you find where she was buried. This presentation offers examples of records that can help genealogists find an ancestor's elusive final resting place.
