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Enjoy this video interview with our upcoming speaker, Melissa Barker: To learn more about Melissa’s upcoming program: https://virtualgenealogy.org/2022/01/01/breathing-new-life-into-your-boring-ancestors-by-melissa-barker/ Find Melissa Barker at: Blog: http://agenealogistinthearchives.blogspot.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheArchiveLady/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tnarchivist Family Tree Webinars: https://familytreewebinars.com/speaker/melissa-barker/ Genealogy Bargains: https://genealogybargains.com/tag/the-archive-lady/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-barker-896b9021 GenFriends Panelist: https://www.youtube.com/user/CheriPass/videos Here are some Interviews and Presentations online: RootsTech: Disaster Planning…

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On Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 a group of VGA members got together to hangout while working on Record Hints on our Family Trees. We learned that making your total hint count go down is not as easy as it looks! It seems that the more information that you add to…

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Webinar: Mixers & Shakers – Tracing Your Bartending, Saloon Keeping, and Tavern Keeping Ancestors before ProhibitionSpeaker: Debra M. DudekWhen: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 8:00pm Eastern Program Description: Taverns and saloons have been a crucial American institution, and the men behind the bar were the social rock stars of their…

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Webinar: Breathing New Life into Your Boring AncestorsSpeaker: Melissa BarkerWhen: Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 11:00am Eastern Program Description: There is no such thing as a boring ancestor! Many genealogists will say they have boring ancestors because they can’t find records or information for them. Learn from a seasoned genealogists…

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Hello from Jeanette Sheliga! I am so excited to be hosting this new VGA Special Interest Group (SIG)! VGA Hangouts is a new members-only group where we can get together for a variety of events, such as: Photo Scanning Party Creating a Locality Guide Working on Record Hints Explore a…

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What is VGA Gives Back? Members of VGA will work as a group, to index, transcribe, and tag records at various repositories to help all genealogists and family historians find records of interest. This group will also be providing a service to the repositories that we all know and love.   VGA…

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Family historians love to share their research with their relatives, but what if your family doesn’t read the book you spent years writing? You don’t want all that effort to go to waste, do you? Over the last dozen years or so, I’ve developed lots of sneaky ways to make…

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VGA is excited to announce a new member-benefit of a Virtual Book Club with hostess, Sunny Morton! Sunny is a well-known genealogy author and lecturer. She is a longtime Contributing Editor at Family Tree Magazine; Contributing Editor and Content Manager for YourDNAGuide.com; and a frequent contributor to FamilySearch’s blog. Learn more…

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