Have you ever found yourself at a class or conference and had the surprise of meeting someone who was researching the same small town or the same unusual family name?
Since the pandemic, it’s been a lot harder to make those in-person connections. But now CGS members can find that serendipity virtually with our Member Connections tool. This is a benefit for CGS members, open to all interests and levels of expertise.
Join a free Zoom presentation on Tuesday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m. Stewart Traiman will walk you through getting set up and finding other members with similar interests and members who are willing to help with those thorny questions and brick walls.
Register by clicking below for the Zoom interactive session and learn about all the possibilities of making your CGS membership expand your resources and network.
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11 AM – 12:30 PM “
Join Rick Voight, CEO of Vivid-Pix, to discover the many uses of our new overhead scanner. He will show how easy it is for you to record your description of each photo and couple your photos together to create a family story in this hands-on workshop. Please bring your family photos with you. Bring your family photos, memories and stories.
Stewart Blandón Traiman demonstrates how Excel spreadsheets can keep your genealogy research organized. You can use Excel’s tools to keep track of newspaper clippings, a vital records catalog, track your ancestors’ addresses over time, and track whole families over many censuses.