Jonathan R. Stayer
Paul Milner
Diane Van Skiver Gagel
Pat Gooldy
Diane Van Skiver Gagel
Jonathan R. Stayer
H. Paul Davidson
Diane Van Skiver Gagel
Ray Gooldy
Jeff Bockman
Jonathan R. Stayer
Paul Milner
Pat Sengstock
Saturday February 28, 1998
National-Louis University in Wheaton, IL.
| Time | Title | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00AM | Pennsylvania Land Records (1A) | State, county, and miscellaneous sources for finding PA landholders
Jonathan R. Stayer |
| 9:00AM | Finding Your Scots/Irish Ancestors (1B) | Understanding migration patterns to locate your Scots/Irish ancestors
Paul Milner |
| 9:00AM | Migration Patterns into Ohio (1C) | Pre & post revolutionary migration, especially from New England & PA
Diane Van Skiver Gagel |
| 10:30PM | Indiana Research (2A) | Major and obscure sources in Indiana: WPA project, newspapers, and more
Pat Gooldy |
| 10:30PM | Ohio Land Records (2B) | Dual survey methods, major Ohio surveys, Federal Land offices, terms
Diane Van Skiver Gagel |
| 10:30PM | Using the Published Pennsylvania Archives for Genealogy (2C) | Organization of and tips for getting the most from these 138 volumes
Jonathan R. Stayer |
| 11:45PM to 12:45 | Multimedia Family Presentations |
A new option in publishing your family history
H. Paul Davidson |
| 1:30PM | Ohio Court Records (3A) | Vast array of county court records and other seldom used county records
Diane Van Skiver Gagel |
| 1:30PM | Newspaper Research (3B) | Finding the depositories, indexes, and addresses to locate your ancestors' newspapers
Ray Gooldy |
| 1:30PM | Internet Library Resources (3C) | Using the Internet to learn where needed materials reside and to prepare for your next library visit
Jeff Bockman |
| 2:45PM | Pennsylvania Court Records (4A) | Focusing on state and county records of interest to the genealogist
Jonathan R. Stayer |
| 2:45PM | Dead End Doldrums (4B) | Techniques to revitalize your search when normal channels run dry
Paul Milner |
| 2:45PM | The Ironwood That Was (4C) | Computer platting of metes and bounds neighborhoods using Deedmapper software
Pat Sengstock |
| Time | Title | Presentation |
|---|---|---|
| 10:30AM to 12:30PM | Land Platting Workshop (2D) | Manual drawing of land plats from metes and bound descriptions. This hands-on class is two hours in length with a short break. It is limited to 30 participants. Pre-registration is required and there is a $15.00 additional fee for materials.
Rita Schneider/Pat Sengstock |
H. Paul Davidson is the owner of Legacy Publishing, a company which publishes multimedia family presentations on CD-ROM. Mr. Davidson has been researching his own family history for over 25 years. For the past 15 years, he has used a personal computer to assist in this effort. He began looking for a more effective way to communicate his findings. Multimedia technology (the mixing of text, pictures, documents, oral history, video, and music, joined by hypertext links) provided the solution.
Diane Van Skiver Gagel is an English instructor at Owens Community College, Toledo, Ohio. She has served as Local Records Specialist for the Ohio Historical Society and Photographic Archivist for the Toledo/Lucas Public Library. She lectures and authors books on Ohio families and Ohio photography.
Pat and Ray Gooldy, proprietors of Ye Olde Genealogie Shoppe in Indianapolis, have transcribed and published a vast number of records valuable to the US researcher. They have lectured widely on colonial history, state sources, and methodology topics.
Paul Milner, from northern England, is a communications specialist designing workshops and lecturing for the past 20 years. He is president of the British Interest Group of Illinois and Wisconsin (BIGWILL) and board member of the Genealogical Speakers Guild and of the FGS.
Rita Schneider is a charter member of DCGS and is a professional genealogist specializing in Chicago and Illinois heir searching. She has enjoyed platting the complex landholdings of here New York ancestors.
Patricia Sengstock is past president of DCGS and has been involved in family genealogy for over 30 years. She has plotted several hundred deeds using DeedMapper software.
Since 1985 Jonathan Stayer has been at the Pennsylvania State Archives where he heads the reference section. Mr. Stayer is an amateur genealogist and is historian of the Stayer Reunion. He has traced the majority of his lines to colonial Pennsylvania.