Webinar: Collaboration After Slavery Speaker: W. Samuel WilliamsWhen: Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 8:00pm Eastern Program Description:African American genealogists often find their enslaved ancestors in the records of their white enslavers. What if your ancestors were those enslavers? Learn how to recognize clues of enslaver ancestors, glean valuable information about those they enslaved,…
Webinar: Traveling Back in Time Using Google Earth ProSpeaker: Marie PalmerWhen: Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 11:00am Eastern Program Description:Discover how to visually wow friends and relatives with your family history research. Google Earth Pro is a free program that offers a sophisticated way to map out your ancestors’ lives with as many…
Webinar: Unlock the Shoebox: Digitizing and Organizing Your Family PhotosSpeaker: Maureen Taylor & Nancy Desmond When: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 8:00pm Eastern Program Description:Are you sitting on a stockpile of old family photos and mementos that you’d love to digitize but you just aren’t sure how to start such a massive project?…
Virtual Genealogical Association’s (VGA) 5th Birthday Party is on Saturday, April 22nd, 2023! The tentative time frame of the live event is 9:00am – 2:00pm Eastern. VGA is looking for short presentations (between 5 – 30 minutes in length) that are either pre-recorded or presented live on the day of…
The following webinar recording will be expiring soon. To watch the recording, VGA members need to login and go to the Past Webinars area of the Members Center. If you are not a current VGA member, you can join an Annual Membership for $20USD and have immediate access to the…
Enjoy this video interview with our upcoming speaker, Eleanor Brinsko: To learn more about Eleanor’s upcoming program: https://virtualgenealogy.org/2023/01/24/our-black-sheep-and-their-prison-records-by-eleanor-o-brinsko/ Find Eleanor at:
Webinar: Help! My records are not in EnglishSpeaker: Bryna O’SullivanWhen: Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 11:00am Eastern Program Description:Digitization has made many international records available from home. But how do you read them if you don’t read that language? This presentation will guide you through the basics of decoding non-English language records. It…
The following webinar recording will be expiring soon. To watch the recording, VGA members need to login and go to the Past Webinars area of the Members Center. If you are not a current VGA member, you can join an Annual Membership for $20USD and have immediate access to the…
The VGA Book Club will be reading “Locating Your Roots: Discover Your Ancestors Using Land Records” by Patricia Law Hatcher and discussing it on Tuesday, March 21st at 7:00pm Eastern. VGA members are encouraged to join whether or not they read the book. VGA Members can register for this webinar…
VGA Hangouts is an opportunity to meet up with other VGA members and work together on our genealogy. This Special Interest Group (SIG) is going to next meet on Sunday, February 26th, 2023 at 6pm Eastern where we are going to work on Brick Wall Busting! Attendees are encouraged to…
