Featuring Kris Rzepczynski & Carl Katafiasz
8:00 am – 9:00 am Registration and Welcome (coffee and donuts)
9:00 am – 10:00 am Coming to America: Research with Ship Passenger Lists
This session will explore the available U.S. passenger lists and indexes, the genealogical information typically found in them, and strategies for finding arrival records of your immigrant ancestors.
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
10:30 am – 11:30 am Wills, Thrills, and Chills: Digging into Probate Records
This session will provide an overview of probate records, the different types of records created, including wills, inventories, and calendars, the family history content to be discovered, and where to find them online and onsite.
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Introduction to Eastern European Genealogy
This presentation will identify a majority of those countries that make up Eastern Europe; illustrate potential quandaries that may arise and provide a potential methodology to get one started in researching these lands.
2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Break
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm Research Your Search
This program will hopefully encourage individuals to look at their genealogies more in depth to potentially obtain additional more information of their ancestors.
Bring your own lunch or visit a local restaurant
Cost is $30 if you register before April 6, 2024
