Genealogical and Historical Society

Tyrrell County Genealogical and Historical Society

Booth 119

The Tyrrell County Genealogical and Historical Society was formed in 1995 for the purpose of maintaining an association of persons interested in the genealogical and historical information associated with Tyrrell County, North Carolina, and the surrounding area, and to promote the genealogy and history of that area.

The Society meets 10 times per year (January through October), and publishes monthly newsletters, as well as a yearly journal.  In past years, the Society has also published a magazine, where natives of the county could share the stories they heard while growing up, or other undocumented information they wished to share.  The Society also has published volumes of obituary records from Walker Funeral Home, a family Bible records book, several volumes of transcriptions of Federal Census records pertaining to Tyrrell County.

Tyrrell County, North Carolina is in the northeastern area of the state, and many of the earliest settlers of that area migrated from southeastern Virginia.  Formed in 1729, its mother counties are Bertie, Chowan, Currituck and Pasquotank.  In turn, Tyrrell County was a contributing county to the formations of Martin and Dare Counties, and the mother county of Washington County.

While the Society isn't offering any specials or discounts during the conference, we hope that everyone will stop by the booth, even if it's just to visit.  We love talking about the county and the families that settled there, and you just might find that you and our booth volunteers are related.

Genealogical and Historical Society

Evidence Management Software

Evidentia Software

Booth 115

http://evidentiasoftware.com/

Evidentia Software was established in the Spring of 2012, and we delivered our flagship product, Evidentia©, that December.  Back then many bloggers were noting the absence of genealogy software that addressed the concerns of the Genealogical Proof Standard, and we decided to fill the void. Version 2 was released just in time for RootsTech 2014, and provided many enhancements requested by our active user community.

Evidentia is an Evidence Management System that improves confidence in your research. Where most software starts with a person, allows you to attach a fact, then a source to backup that fact, Evidentia starts with the source. By starting with the source, Evidentia allows you to separate fact from claim, providing the flexibility needed to perform proper analysis of your data.

Evidentia let's you turn information into evidence, and its many reports allow you to share that evidence in a convincing manner.

We provide many free video tutorials on YouTube to get you started, and we are always available to answer your questions.

Learn more at http://evidentiasoftware.com/category/news/, and check out our very active user community on Google+

Come visit the Evidentia Software booth at the NGS Family History Conference in 2014! Booth #115

Evidence Management Software

Be Part of A Family History Researcher Network

Genlighten.com, Booth 514

Cyndy Richardson at cynthia@genlighten.com

We’re looking for skilled research providers  for every library and archive in the United States to join our network of Genlighten genealogists.

Why? Consider this true story:

Recently, a Facebook friend from the Midwest wanted to hire someone to quickly retrieve an obituary from a Pennsylvania library. She was finding it tough to locate a person to make the trip and she posted asking if anyone knew of anyone ...

It shouldn’t be that hard to find research help.

We’ve built a website that makes it easy to connect with local researchers--but it’s only easy if local researchers add their names to our database.

That’s where you come in.

Visit http://wwwGenlighten.com, click on “Discover Local Resources,” and check out the pages that cover your area.  Are there genealogists listed? If not, consider it to be a help wanted ad directed at you!

What are we looking for in Genlighten providers? People who will earn client feedback like this:

“prompt, knowledgeable, helpful and accurate”

“great job of communicating“

“very impressed with the thoroughness”

“absolutely went above and beyond”

If you see yourself in these comments, stop by our booth to find out more about how Genlighten works.  We’ll happily demo the site and answer your questions. And when you’re ready, we can help you sign up.

The 5 minutes you take to add your name to our database means that you’ll be there when someone needs you--and we hope that someone will be there when you need research help, too.

Be Part of A Family History Researcher Network

Looking for an Old Book?

Genealogical Books in Print

http://www.gbip.biz

Booth 221 

Have you been wanting a large pedigree chart which allows pictures?  Genealogical Books in Print -- Booth # 221--has such a chart.  It has space for nine generations, is printed on a nice parchment paper, and is priced competitively with other such charts.  It is unique, however, because it comes with a template to help you fill in names, places and dates easily and attractively . . . AND it gives you the ability to place pictures (even color pictures) on it FREE.  Come let us demonstrate!

We also have a lot of old books—some now out-of-print--that we sold back in the 1990s (before we retired) but have never advertised since. This includes copies of our own publication: The 1787 Census of Virginia [:] An Accounting of the Name of Every White Male tithable Over 21 Years . . . a 3 volume set, 2,022 pages.  The internet has said it was out-of-print--which it has never been--but we don’t have many copies left and it will not be reprinted, so if you’ve been wanting this work come to our booth early!

If you miss us at the conference, we will be happy if you visit us at http://www.gbip.biz.

Netti Schreiner-Yantis

Looking for an Old Book?

Genealogy Gems Podcast

Lisa Louise Cooke’s Genealogy Gems Podcast http://www.GenealogyGems.com has been delivering “top-rated genealogy radio online, all the time” since 2007.  Listeners from around the world have downloaded the show over 1.5 million times! Each episode features Lisa’s fun and engaging approach to discovering and sharing family history.

In response to demand for more of her friendly and expert instruction, the Genealogy Gems brand has expanded to include:

•         A free beginner podcast and blog post series, Family History: Genealogy Made Easy, first published in 2008-9, now being updated and re-released in weekly segments.

•         A premium version of the Genealogy Gems podcast with expanded content, in-depth interviews, news and how-to's, available by subscription.

•         Full-length, premium how-to videos of Lisa's most popular classes including using Google search, Evernote and the iPad for genealogy; newspaper research for family historians; how to organize your hard drive and more.

Lisa Louise Cooke

•         Books, e-books and “cheat sheets” including Evernote for Genealogists (Windows and Mac editions); Turn Your iPad into a Genealogy Powerhouse, The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox, How to Find Your Family History in Newspapers and the Genealogy Gems: Ultimate Research Strategies.

Stop by early to see Lisa at the Genealogy Gems booth #618 and pick up a schedule of free demos being held at her booth throughout the conference. (Get a sneak peek at that schedule by following her blog at http://www.GenealogyGems.com. Take advantage of conference specials, including the value-priced “Everything Bundle” with all of her books and a year of unlimited access to her premium podcast, videos and more.

Genealogy Gems Podcast

Did Your Virginia Ancestors Move to Kentucky?

Kentucky Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists

Booth Number:  518

http://kyapg.com

Cohen Swiney, Chapter Representative


As the Kentucky Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, we felt motivated to participate in the Exhibit Hall experience for the 2014 NGS Family History Conference because of the tremendously, strong connection Virginia has played in the formation of so much of Kentucky’s history.

Our chapter is composed of members of the national APG who reside in Kentucky or in an adjoining state. Our primary goals are to provide education and networking opportunities, promote professional standards, and support historical records access and preservation.

We welcome the opportunity to work with persons interested in exploring their Kentucky connections, and beyond. Our aim is to be a trustworthy and reliable resource, to assist in your genealogy and family history research.

Be on the look out for special promotions we may offer at our booth, number 518.  We will have members’ contact information and various brochures at our table, so be certain to stop by, or you can visit us on the web at:  http://kyapg.com or on Facebook at:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/KY-Chapter-APG.

We look forward to meeting you and hope that you enjoy the conference and exhibits.

Did Your Virginia Ancestors Move to Kentucky?

New Features for Clooz Software

Ancestral Systems LLC, Booth 719  

 http://www.clooz.com

Ancestral Systems LLC (booth 719) is dedicated to developing software applications designed to meet the needs of family history researchers. It is their goal to provide tools that make it easier to follow best-practice research processes. Ancestral Systems’ staff are avid family history researchers, ensuring real life usability.  The current main product is Clooz, a software program providing both data organization and analysis capabilities.

Clooz was originally developed by Elizabeth Kelly Kerstens, CG, of Ancestor Detective. In January 2012, Ancestral Systems acquired the program and has streamlined and enhanced its capabilities ever since.   Powerful new features were added such as the “Composite View” of people and documents, which lets the researcher explore how different people are associated with other people through the documents they were mentioned in. Information from documents of various forms can be extracted into matching Clooz data-entry templates, and then exported to family tree programs such as Legacy Family Tree (more on the way).   People listed in Clooz can be synchronized with those in other programs, and when a document is exported, Clooz transforms the information into events (birth, occupation, naturalization, etc.), allows you to add family relationships, and enters the source citation for each, all in one operation. Numerous Clooz users have commented how extracting the information from a document results in their finding new details that otherwise would have been skipped. These are just a few of the ways using Clooz improves your research.

Stop by booth 719, or visit http://www.clooz.com for more information.

New Features for Clooz Software

Telling American's Story

America’s Story Surrounds Your Family Tree

Daniel Boone Footsteps, Publisher, Booth 106

 “I can’t take you back in time, but I can take you to the places where history happened,” says award-winning author and storyteller Randell Jones. His non-fiction, history books tell America’s story by putting the narrative on the landscape. His exciting and factual accounts anchor the histories to places where America’s story unfolds, where previous generations have erected markers and monuments. “This is where we meet our ancestors,” he says, “standing where they stood, where they farmed, where they fought. We see the landscape across which they passed. We hear the same streams tumbling toward the oceans. We feel the same wind against our faces. Following in their footsteps, we know a good bit more about our past.” 

Randell’s books include:

In the Footsteps of Daniel Boone,
In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett,
Before They Were Heroes at Kings Mountain,
Scoundrels, Rogues, and Heroes of the Old North State,
A Guide to the Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail, and,
Trailing Daniel Boone—DAR marking Daniel Boone’s Trail, 1912-1915.
The Daniel Boone Wagon Train—a journey through ‘the Sixties,’” is a treat for any Baby Boomer.

His books have received awards from the Kentucky Historical Society and the North Carolina Society of Historians. In May, he receives from the Daughters of the American Revolution the national D.A.R. History Award medal for his body of work.

“These are the stories of America’s first frontier.” Learn more at http:www.danielboonefootsteps.com.Visit booth # 106. 

Telling American's Story

Books, Guides, and More

Genealogical.com Booth 606

Representing Genealogical Publishing Co. and Clearfield Company

Stop by the booth and see the wide selection. Following is a list of the most recent publications from Genealogical.com. You can download a free copy of our catalogue of popular titles at the following link: http://www.genealogical.com/upload_images/GPCCatalog.pdf.

Finding Your New York City Irish Ancestors New York City, by Joe Buggy

Mr. Buggy presents a comprehensive overview for anyone wishing to trace their Irish ancestors within New York City. Since identifying the immigrant ancestor who arrived in New York represents the best chance of finding one’s place of origin in Ireland, the author provides detailed information about records, resources and strategies for achieving this objective.
http://www.genealogical.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&item_number=776

International Vital Records Handbook, 6th Edition, by Thomas Jay Kemp

One-hundred pages longer than its predecessor, the new 6th edition contains the latest ordering forms and information for each of the fifty states and also furnishes details about records that were created prior to statewide vital records registration. Then it covers the other countries of the world, giving, where available, the current application forms and instructions, as well as the key addresses of repositories or embassies that might help you obtain copies of vital records.

Sustainable Genealogy: Separating Fact from Fiction in Family Legends, by Richard Hite

Heeding the cautions cited and putting into practice the lessons learned in this book will make you all much better family historians and ensure that your genealogical legacy will be one to be "trusted."

Without Indentures: Index to White Slave Children in Colonial Court Records, by Richard Hayes Phillips

Richard Hayes Phillips’ shocking new study of colonial slave labor contains the names of more than 5,000 children kidnapped from Ireland, Scotland, England, and New England and sold into slavery in Maryland and Virginia, ca. 1660-1720.

Twenty-two Genealogy at a Glance laminated research aids, including the newest ones in the series, which cover Ancestry.com, court records, U.S. Civil War, “Old Southwest,” Polish, Female, and U.S. Census research topics.

Books, Guides, and More

On the Web Track and Exhibitor

MyHeritage, Booth 107

http://www.myheritage.com

Getting the Most Out of MyHeritage

Friday, 9 May 2014, 11:00 a.m., F330

MyHeritage is a family history network helping millions of families around the world discover and share their legacy online. As technology thought leaders and innovators, MyHeritage is transforming family history into an activity that is accessible, exciting and easier than ever before. MyHeritage empowers its global community of users with unique social tools, a massive library of historical content and powerful search and data matching technologies.

MyHeritage has amassed 75 million registered users who have created 27 million family trees with 1.6 billion profiles. It has billions of historical records and the service is available in 40 languages. MyHeritage offers personal family sites http://www.myheritage.com which enable users to build, research and share their family trees, photos, and videos, and connect and stay in touch with relatives. MyHeritage’s free Family Tree Builder software http://www.myheritage.com/family-tree-builder is the world’s most popular free genealogy software. It combines innovative technologies with easy-to-use features.

MyHeritage's Smart Matching technology compares each family tree to the millions of family trees contributed by other users, to find matches and enables users to discover new relatives and ancestors.

MyHeritage's powerful search engine, SuperSearch http://www.myheritage.com/research, allows users to search for ancestors in historical records, public family trees, photos and other documents and records. It contains billions of historical records, including the world's largest collection of historical newspapers dating back to 1609.

The free MyHeritage Mobile App http://www.myheritage.com/mobile lets users take and edit their family tree on the go, on iPhone, iPad or Android.

Come visit us at booth 107 to learn more and take advantage of our special conference discounts on MyHeritage subscriptions.

On the Web Track and Exhibitor

FamilySearch Booth

FamilySearch—Helping people discover, preserve, and share family connections

Booth #201

http://www.familysearch.org

FamilySearch offers free tools and resources to help more people discover, preserve, and share priceless family history findings and connect families across generations.

• FamilySearch Family Tree: An easy way to discover what others have found about your ancestors, add sources, preserve your genealogy for generations to come, and collaborate with others on shared family lines.

• FamilySearch Memories: A safe place to upload, share, and connect photos, documents, and stories with current and future generations.

• Interactive Fan Chart: A new way to view ancestors and descendants, share the joy of genealogy with family, find gaps in your research, and make plans for next steps.

• Billions of Free Online Records:  World’s largest collection of free family history and genealogy records from over 100 countries.

• Largest Online Genealogy Reference Library:  FamilySearch Research Wiki is an online encyclopedia that offers research guidance and a place to share your knowledge.  Includes over 600 informative classes to watch at your own convenience.

• Free, Personal Help:  FamilySearch or research-specific help online, on the phone, and in over 4,600 local Family History Centers worldwide.

• Indexing:  A great way to give back. More than 100,000 online volunteers are helping to make genealogical records searchable online.

Visit the FamilySearch booth to see these FamilySearch resources in action!  http://www.familysearch.org.

FamilySearch Booth

BCG Track and Booth

Laurel Baty, Alison Hare, Michael Hait,
and President, Elissa Powell

The Board for Certification of Genealogists®

http://www.bcgcertification.org

The Board for Certification of Genealogists is an independent organization not affiliated with, or part of, any group. It is a certifying body, not a membership society, and a nationally and internationally recognized organization.

The BCG exhibit booth #318 provides materials that are helpful for success in the certification process. You can discuss the seven requirements for certification with knowledgeable BCG volunteers and peruse actual successful portfolios. During the conference you may ask questions in session T-211 “BCG Certification Seminar” on Thursday at 9:30 am. 

The website http://www.bcgcertification.org contains skill-building articles, exercises, and a free download of The BCG Application Guidewhich describes the requirements for your portfolio notebook application.

The Board's mission is to foster public confidence in genealogy as a respected branch of history by promoting an attainable, uniform standard of competence and ethics among genealogical practitioners, and by publicly recognizing persons who meet that standard.

BCG Track and Booth

Genealogical Societies

Virginia Genealogical Society

http://www.vgs.org

Are you researching your Virginia ancestor without proper tools?

Come visit Booth 313 to find out why you need to join.
Numerous conference specials—visit us at the booth to see how much you save!

First Tool

A year’s membership in the Virginia Genealogical Society will pay dividends in Virginia education and direction for $35.00, $5 more for your entire family. Benefits of membership:

• The Magazine of Virginia Genealogy. Quarterly. Transcriptions and abstracts of Virginia records.
• The award-winning Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter. Bi-monthly. Outstanding articles, queries, book reviews, announcements.
• Two 2-day conferences per year in different Virginia locations; meet knowledgeable Virginia researchers.
• Access to Members-Only section of VGS website, with premium articles and information usable to Virginia researchers. http://www.vgs.org
• Mailing list, vagensoc@googlegroups.com.
• Discounts: Conference (10%); Society publications (20%).

Second Tool

Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents: 1732-1776 (Vols. 4-8)
 $30-$40 each
Five volumes on sale as bargains at Booth #313

Third Tool

Index to Virginia Estates: 1800-1865 (10 Vols.) 
Index of all Virginia estate-related records. $40-$50 each

Fourth Tool

First volume of WV series announced: Index to West Virginia Estates, Before 1865. Volume 1, Counties of Barbour, Berkeley, Doddridge, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Harrison, Jefferson, Lewis, Marion, Mineral, Monongalia, Morgan, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, and Wetzel. $50

Come look at Volume 2 at Booth 313.

Cabinet of tools can be filled with more VGS publications found at Booth 313 & at http://www.vgs.org.

Genealogical Societies

Research Tool: Note Filer

SKY Software, Booth 320

http://www.notefiler.com

SKY Software will be demonstrating its newest program – NoteFiler. This program is designed to be used for storing and organizing information and since genealogical research is a great use of the program, we’ll be demonstrating how the program can help you with your genealogical research.

The program makes it easy to organize your information into a hierarchy and allows you to, optionally, define explicit fields for your notes or research through the use of templates. For instance you might create a template that includes fields for information you would put into a family group sheet. This ensures that every family group sheet will include the same information in the same order as every other family group sheets. Then, when you use NoteFiler’s highly configurable reports to generate a report of your research, they will all be nicely and consistently formatted.

NoteFiler is not limited to genealogy, however. You can use it for any kind of research or for any information that you want to keep track of such as books you’ve read, your recipes, home inventory, car maintenance, and on and on.

If you miss the conference, you can find out more about the program at http://www.notefiler.com. NoteFiler Lite is completely free so download it and give it a try. If you have any questions, you can ask the programmer of the program at the conference.

Stop by the Booth #320

Research Tool: Note Filer

DNA

Family Tree DNA, Booth 118

Family Tree DNA, pioneer in the burgeoning field of genetic genealogy, offers a range of tests that broaden the scope of traditional genealogical research.

Since 2000, FTDNA customers have used Y-DNA to follow their direct paternal lines and trace the origins of their surnames. Only men have Y chromosomes which they pass to their sons, who pass it to their sons relatively unchanged, thus assisting researchers in determining whether the connection they see on paper really exists. In addition, the Big Y test, just released at the end of February, provides more information about ancestral origins than previously available in a single test. For more information see http://www.familytreedna.com/learn/y-dna-testing/big-y/.

Exploring maternal connections is inherently more challenging, but the Full Mitochondrial Sequence reveals the presence of a common maternal ancestor. While both men and women have mtDNA, only women pass it to their children, so by sequencing it, we can connect to common maternal ancestors.

Both men and women can take the autosomal DNA test Family Finder, which looks at the DNA we got from both of our parents, 50% from each, randomly recombined from the 50% they got from each of their parents. For adoptees and donor-conceived persons, Family Finder can potentially connect testers to family with whom they likely would not have otherwise connected. See the test type information here: http://www.familytreedna.com/learn/dna-basics/.

Visit Booth 118 to learn how you can use this exciting tool to help confirm relationships, rule out unrelated lines, and connect with cousins along all family lines.

DNA

Genealogical Society

The Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society 

Booth: 507

Web: http://www.magsgen.com

The Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society (MAGS) was founded to stimulate and facilitate research on Germanic ancestors who settled in the mid-Atlantic region over the past four hundred years. Our interests cross state boundaries in the mid-Atlantic area.

We hold bi-annual meetings, held Spring and Fall at different locations throughout the mid-Atlantic region, featuring speakers knowledgeable on a variety of genealogical topics including those related directly to research on Germanic families. Meetings also afford members the opportunity to purchase genealogical books and supplies from vendors.

On the MAGS website you can check current society information and links to Germanic sites in the US and Europe.  Our Members Only Area contains all of the society's  newsletters since our inception plus other great files and databases related to Germanic genealogy that are found only on our website.

Our quarterly newsletter DER KURIER is published in March, June, September, and December. Articles, specific to Germanic research and regular columns, such as the “Fraktur Forum,” are included. Other items covered are book reviews and publications, members’ queries, members’ Ahnentafels or ancestral charts and information about other genealogical societies' activities related to Germanic genealogy.

Stumped Roots is a free limited research service, designed to help MAGS members resolve their research problems.  Stumped Roots conducts limit on-line research for members and/or advises them on possible additional research.

Visit the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society at booth 507 across the aisle from Ancestry and learn more about locating your Germanic ancestors. Books and other research aids will be available for purchase.

Visit the MAGS website at http://www.magsgen.com for additional information.

Genealogical Society

Spotlight on Exhibitors

Library of Virginia Shop - Booth 718

Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219

The Library of Virginia Shop features an assortment of useful genealogy materials and great gifts. A collection of Library of Virginia publications will be available for sale along with research aids and supplies for both the novice and experienced genealogist. You’re sure to find fun and engaging gifts that focus on literacy, history, and culture for all ages.

All proceeds from the Shop help further the educational, cultural, and conservation efforts of the Library of Virginia. We appreciate your support.

If you’d like to visit us on-site while you’re in Richmond, please stop by:

Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219
*Free and secure parking beneath the building*

Visit the shop online at http://www.TheVirginiaShop.org.
Visit the Library of Virginia online at http://www.LVA.Virginia.gov.

Spotlight on Exhibitors