202411apr1:00 pm3:00 pmUsing Archives to Fill the Gaps in Your Ancestor’s Timeline by Melissa Barker
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PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. The handout and Zoom link will only be sent to registered attendees. Do you have gaps of missing information in your ancestor's timeline?
Event Details
PLEASE CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. The handout and Zoom link will only be sent to registered attendees.
Do you have gaps of missing information in your ancestor’s timeline?
Using archives and the records they hold can fill in those gaps. Moving beyond the basic census records and vital records to unique records and records that are not online will help you fill in those gaps in your ancestor’s timeline.
Visiting and contacting local and state archives is key in finding records about our ancestors that are not online and that can fill in the gaps in our ancestor’s timeline.
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives. She is affectionally known as The Archive Lady to the genealogy community. She lectures, teaches, and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual presentations across the United States and other countries for various genealogy groups and societies. She writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives and is a well-known published book reviewer. She has been a Professional Genealogist for the past 17 years with expertise in Tennessee records. She has been researching her own family history for the past 32 years.
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(Thursday) 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm(GMT+00:00)
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