Thursday Evening Lectures at the Marriott Hotel

Thursday, 8 May 2014, at 7:00 p.m.

With conference attendance over 2,000 and the Virginia Genealogical Society Event sold out, the conference committee has scheduled some entertaining lectures for you on Thursday evening. Have an early dinner and then enjoy one of the four presentations, all without having to leave the Marriott hotel:

• Shootout at the Rhododenron Lodge: Reconstructing Life-Changing Events,
Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL, Salon E, (lobby level);

• The Nottoway Courthouse Bible: Delivered from the Fire, Terry Koch-Bostic, Salon 4, (lower level);

• Selfies, Mugshots, and Instant Pictures: Early Photography and Your Family, Maureen Taylor, Salons A–D, (lobby level); and

• Social Media Tips from the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories™, Fran Jensen, MPA, Salons 1–3 (lower level).

In the evening the shuttle buses will leave the Library of Virginia and Marriott and return to the Omni, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn Express, and DoubleTree throughout the evening with the last coach leaving at 8:45 p.m.

Thursday Evening Lectures at the Marriott Hotel

Finders Keepers: Retrieving One Document in a Million, Instantly!

Thursday, 8 May 2014, 8:00 a.m., T204

ResearchTies, Booth 505

Still struggling to record your genealogical research and organize your documents? Does it feel like you have tried every method and still can’t locate your research results without frustration? ResearchTiesTM is an innovative, new online research log that streamlines data entry and uses a multi-variable search engine to locate research results instantly!

ResearchTies allows users to record objectives and details of planned searches, as well as full citations and links to the research results. Repositories, source bibliographies, names and places are added to the database only once, making them available to select with just a click the next time they are needed. You can even index your old family photos. Stop wasting time with duplicate data entry and slow or complicated retrieval of your research. Visit http://researchties.com for more information.

Jill N. Crandell, MA, AG® will present, “Finders Keepers: Retrieving One Document in a Million, Instantly” at the National Genealogical Conference in Richmond, Virginia on Thursday, May 8, at 8:00 am (T204). Get up and get moving early that morning and learn how to save time and frustration. With the ability to open all documents related to a person in a matter of seconds, ResearchTies also facilitates analysis and correlation of your data. Learn how to improve your genealogical research with a quality research log—one that works for YOU. Drop by vendor booth #505 to ask questions or try out the program. See you in Richmond!

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

Wednesday is Society Night at the Marriott

Wednesday, 7 May 2014, 5:15 p.m–7:00 p.m.

On Wednesday the conference program does not end at 5:00 p.m. Twenty-seven genealogical and historical societies from Virginia and a few from Pennsylvania, will be on display at the Marriott Hotel in the Grand Ballroom Foyer on the lobby level and Capital Ballroom Foyer on the lower level, to answer questions about local repositories and resources, discuss their group’s activities, and sell their publications. So plan to eat later on Wednesday evening and stop by the Marriott to learn more about the resources available in the Richmond area and across the state. The shuttle to the other hotels will be running until 9:00 p.m. to accommodate Society Night at the Marriott and researchers at the Library of Virginia.

Tables 1–14 are located in the upper foyer off the lobby and tables 16-30 are down the escalator in the lower level.

1.   Virginia Historical Society
2.   Virginia Genealogical Society
3.   Fairfax Genealogical Society
4.   Friends of the Virginia State Archives
5.   Genealogical Research Institute of Virginia (GRIVA)
6.   Richmond Chapter, Virginia Society, Sons of the American Revolution
7.   Afro American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc.
8.   Goochland County Historical Society
9.   Virginia Beach Genealogical Society
10. Augusta County Genealogical Society
11. Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library
12. Orange County Historical Society
13. Louisa County Historical Society
14. Central Rappahannock Heritage Center
16. Thomas Balch Library
17. Friends of Hollywood Cemetery
18. Beth Ahabah Museum and Archives
19. Jones Memorial Library
20. Manakin Huguenot Society
23. Chesterfield Historic Society
24. National Society Colonial Seventeenth Century
25. Shenandoah County Historical Society
26. Elegba Folklore Society, Inc.
27. Tidewater Genealogical Society
28. Western PA Genealogical Society
29. Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh GRIP
30. Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

A number of the above societies also had a blog post as part of the Virginia Repositories series which ran on the NGS Conference Blog January through March. You can find those posts at http://conferenceblog.ngsgenealogy.org/search/label/research where over fifty articles were written about Research facilities and repositories across Virginia.

We hope to see you at Society Night!

Wednesday is Society Night at the Marriott

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