Freedmen's Bureau Project Indexing Administrator Training

Freedman's Bureau Project

Learn More About the Freedman's Bureau Project:  http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/

Discover Your Roots Using the Freedmen's Bureau Records

Freedmen's Bureau Records Online

Legacy Quick Guides

Legacy QuickGuides are a MUST HAVE for your genealogy research toolbox!!!!!!  

I love quick guides and have a large collection on a variety of topics in my personal library. Some of the topics in my collection include:  computer software and technology, history, literature, Bible, public speaking, and mathematics.  These guides provide me with a vast amount of information and are a huge time saver.

Quick guides are written concisely and to the point on the given subject.  Legacy’s Quick Guides are written on a wide array of genealogy topics by numerous genealogy and family history experts.  

The guides are sold at an affordable price and can be purchased from the Legacy Store for $2.95 or at Amazon for $2.99 in .pdf or Kindle format.  

Blog Clean Up

Here is a great blog article with eight tips from Misty Kearns about "Cleaning Out Your Blogging Closet"
http://ceoofmeinc.com/how-to-refresh-your-blog-by-updating-and-recycling-older-content/.

I love the tips for refreshing your blog by updating and recycling and plan to spruce up my blogs using some of these tips.  The first tip I plan to follow is sharing and re-sharing my popular post.  Below are the statistics as of  today of the popular posts and pages for my Find Your Folks blog.

Popular Posts of Find Your Folks Blog as of July 21, 2014

Popular Pages of Find Your Folks Blog as of July 21, 2014

Midwestern African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI)

MAAGI Class of 2014

Last week, July 8 – 10, 2014, I taught five genealogy courses at the 2^nd annual Midwestern African American Genealogy Institute (MAAGI) in St. Louis, Missouri.  I was also a faculty member in the first MAAGI which was held July 9 – 11, 2013.  The titles of the classes I taught this year were as follows:

• Breathing Life into Bullet Points & Text With Smart Graphics & Diagrams.
• Creating Multimedia Presentations
• Taking Family History to the Stage
• Using Spreadsheets Software for Genealogy Projects
• Word Processing Software: Adding Visual Appeal to Family History Narratives

MAAGI is directed by Mr. Charles Brown, Jr., who is also president of the St. Louis African American History and Genealogy Society.  

All of the four tracks of MAAGI focus on African-ancestored family history research. 

• Track 1:  Fundamental Methods & Strategies for African American Research
• Track 2:  Technology and Social Media
• Track 3:  Pre & Post Emancipation Records
• Track 4:  Genealogy as a Profession

 

MAAGI Class of 2013

MAAGI was sponsored by the St. Louis African American History and GenealogySociety and held on the campus of Harris-StoweState University. 

I am proud to be part of the first faculty members of such a fine genealogy institute and look forward to continue teaching at MAAGI in the coming years.

Juneteenth Jubilee, A Staged Production

I am pleased to announce my upcoming staged production, Juneteenth Jubilee.

Record Collections Page

I have created a webpage on my Find Your Folks Blog called "Record Collections"  which contains links to online genealogy record resources. This is a work in progress and I have completed tables to the state pages of records on ancestry.com and myfamilysearch.org.  This webpage was created for two purposes: 1) to make it easier for me to search for online record collections from various websites and 2) to be used as a quick online records collection resource for participants in my genealogy workshops.