Widen the Net: Online “Fishing” Strategies

No matter how thorough our research plan is, sometimes the evidence we need hides somewhere we never expected to find it. This session will cover strategies for finding, evaluating, and piecing together information gleaned from various online sources, including the information we didn’t know to look for!

Kimberly is especially passionate about researching hard-to-find families in the Carolinas and Virginia and sharing her love of genealogy with others through teaching. She is the Director of Education for the National Genealogical Society and a past president of the Association for Professional Genealogists. She served as the Genealogy Expert for About.com for sixteen years and is the author of several books, including most recently “The Challenge of Endogamy and Pedigree Collapse” in Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case Studies and The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy, 3rd edition. She has also contributed to several popular genealogy magazines, including BBC’s Who Do You Think You Are?, Family Tree Magazine, and the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly.

Kimberly enjoys teaching in courses at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), and the GRIP Genealogy Institute, as well as for the online genealogy programs offered through Boston University. She also loves researching land records, reconstructing neighborhoods, writing up her family history, and using genetic evidence to help solve complex genealogical problems. You can find her online at Level Up Genealogy, https://www.levelupgenealogy.com.

August 20, 2024 meeting link click on the button above to join