Special Presentation at the September PCGS Meeting

PCGS has a special treat planned for the September general meeting. First up will be Jodi Strait presenting a short class entitled His Bones Lie Bleaching. Following her presentation will be a live webinar from George G. Morgan: Bring 'em Back to Life: Developing an Ancestor Profile.

George G. Morgan is president of Aha! Seminars, Inc. and co-host of The Genealogy Guys Podcast, the longest running genealogy podcast on the internet. Following is his description of the webinar he Aha! Seminars website:
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In the course of our genealogical research, we often become engrossed in the collection of information snippets, failing to put them into a logical perspective. We lose sight of the fact that the people we're tracing participated in the life of their historical times, led complex lives, and interacted with one another.
 

Organizing the information we collect into a biographical profile can help you begin to recognize character traits and decision patterns. And the profile also provides an invaluable, portable research tool that avoids your taking voluminous amounts of notes with you on research trips. 

This seminar presents a methodology and a structured model for taking the details you collect about your ancestor and creating a biographical profile. We will discuss:

• Establishing your ancestor's every location,
• Learning about other people in your ancestor's life,
• Studying local, state and national history to determine what events may have influenced or motivated your ancestor,
• Studying personal events that may have influenced or motivated your ancestor, and
• Effectively organizing materials into a profile that can be used for additional research and for writing.

 This approach will not only help you organize your research, it can become the basis for writing detailed biographical sketches or novels about the people whose lives you have been researching.

Our general meetings are free and open to members and non-members alike. Come join us on September 17 from 1-3 p.m. at our new meeting location in the Operations Division Midtown, Hardesty Multi-Service Center, 1100 S. Alvernon (located on the corner of 22nd and Alvernon, just beyond the Reid Park Golf Center).

Visit our website at http://azpimagensoc.org/ for more info. We can be reached via email at info@azpimagensoc.org, or phone at (520) 589-5803.

Free Webinar Illinois State Genealogical Society featuring George G. Morgan

Sidestep Genealogy  Tue, Nov 13, 2012 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM MST Presenter:  George G. Morgan Brick wall research blocks are inevitable. We strive to start with ourselves and work backwards, but sometimes there are impediments that stop us in our tracks. It is then that we must use our most creative research skills, and it is essential that we move to other family members. That means researching our ancestors' siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins, and the collateral lines with which they are connected. Sidestep genealogy means researching these alternative individuals, their records, the places that they lived, and other resources. This lecture will make you stop and think about what alternative research paths you might use, and point you to new resources you may never have considered. About George:  George G. Morgan is the president of Aha! Seminars, Inc., and an internationally recognized genealogy expert who presents at local, state, national, and international genealogical conferences. George is the prolific author of literally hundreds of articles for magazines, journals, newsletters, in genealogical publications, and at online sites in the U.S., Canada, the U.K, Singapore, and elsewhere. McGraw-Hill has published his tenth book, the third edition of his How to Do Everything: Genealogy, in 2012. He is Vice President of Membership for the Federation of Genealogical Societies. He is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, and other societies in the U.S. and the U.K. George and Drew Smith produce The Genealogy GuysSM Podcast on the Internet at genealogyguys.com, the longest running genealogical podcast in the world, with thousands of listeners around the globe.

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