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2020 Webinar Series
January
Christine Woodcock – “Scots to Canada: Land and Opportunity”
Friday, January 3, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Rick Voight – “Introduction to Vivid-Pix Software”
Tuesday, January 7, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Ursula C. Krause – “Preparing Your Heritage Travel to Germany”
Saturday, January 11, 2020 at 11:00 am Eastern
February
Sara Cochran – “My DNA Brought Me to the Forest, But Where are the Trees?”
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Debra Dudek – “Pinning Together Your Genealogical Past on Pinterest”
Sunday, February 16, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Julie Szczepankiewicz – “FAN Out! Using Cluster Research to Break Through Brick Walls”
Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 11:00 am Eastern
March
Colleen Robledo Greene – “Streamlining Your Toolbox: Cloud Applications, Strategies, & Workflows”
Tuesday, March 10, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Vincenzo Alfano – “Vittorio Emanuele & Giuseppe Garibaldi: Names in Post-1861 Italy”
Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern (note later start time)
Laura Hedgecock & Elizabeth O’Neal – “Social Media Strategies for Family Historians”
Friday, March 27, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Kate Eakman – “The Suicide of William A. James: More than Meets the Eye”
Sunday, March 29, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
April
Cheri Hudson Passey – “Evidence: Direct, Indirect, or Negative? It Depends!”
Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 11:00 am Eastern
Michelle Chubenko – “Using the Resources of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum”
Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Lisa Lisson – “Researching Genealogy the Frugal Way!”
Friday, April 17, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
May
Lisa Alzo – Finding Your Femme Fatales
Saturday, May 9, 2020 at 11:00 am Eastern
Megan Heyl – “Road Trip Tips: Don’t Forget To…”
Friday, May 15, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Renate Y. Sanders – “Researching Formerly-Enslaved Ancestors: It Takes a Village”
Sunday, May 17, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Alec Ferretti – “Strategies to Analyze Endogamous DNA”
Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
June
Mary Hojnacki – “Beginning Italian Genealogy Research”
Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 11:00 am Eastern
Pam Vestal – “Finding What You Need and Using What You Find”
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Robert Parker – “U.K. Parish Registers”
Sunday, June 14, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Dan Earl – “Going Wayback: The Internet Archive and Your Research”
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
July
Louis Kessler – “Your DNA Raw Data & What You Can Do With It”
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Sara Gredler – “Successfully Searching the Old Fulton New York Postcards Website”
Sunday, July 26, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
August
Jessica Trotter – “Occupational Records: Finding Work-Related Paper Trails”
Saturday, August 1, 2020 at 11:00 am Eastern
Ute Brandenburg – “Research in East & West Prussia”
Friday, August 7, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Caroline Guntur – “Introduction to Swedish Genealogy”
Tuesday, August 18, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
September
Sara Campbell – “Using Historic Maps of New England and Beyond”
(Being rescheduled as speaker has been unexpectedly called out of the country)
Tamara Hallo – “How to Get the Most Out of FamilySearch.org”
Sunday, September 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Tammy Tipler-Priolo – “Simple Steps to Writing Your Ancestors’ Biographies”
Tuesday, September 15, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Annette Lyttle – “Finding & Using Digitized Manuscript Collections for Genealogical Research”
Friday, September 25, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
October
Patricia Coleman – “Beginning with DNA Painter: Chromosome Mapping”
Saturday, October 3, 2020 at 11:00 am Eastern
Moderated by VGA President Dan Earl
Kristin Brooks Barcomb – “Understanding & Correlating U.S. World War I Records & Resources”
Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Moderated by VGA Welsh SIG & Writing SIG Admin Megan Heyl
Christine Johns Cohen – “Lineage & Hereditary Societies: Why, Where, When, What & How?”
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Moderated by VGA President Dan Earl
November
VGA 2020 Virtual Conference
Fri, Nov 13 – Sun, Nov 15, 2020
Friday & Saturday moderated by VGA President Dan Earl
Sunday moderated by VGA Past President Katherine R. Willson & VGA Member Jenny Hawran
Judy Nimer Muhn – “Researching French-Canadians in North America”
Sunday, November 22, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Moderated by VGA Member Susan Schuler
Marian B. Wood – “Curate Your Genealogy Collection – Before Joining Your Ancestors!”
Tuesday, November 24, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Moderated by VGA President Dan Earl
December
Diane L. Richard – “The Organizational Power of Timelines”
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Moderated by VGA President Dan Earl
Nancy Loe – “Using Macs and iPads for Genealogy”
Friday, December 4, 2020 at 8:00 pm Eastern
Moderated by VGA member Cheri Hudson Passey
Jean Wilcox Hibben – “Family History Can Heal Family Present”
Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:00 pm Eastern
Moderated by VGA Welsh SIG & Writing SIG Admin Megan Heyl
