Si, Si, CeCe Moore!

PCGS is proud to announce that the featured speaker for our 2018 seminar will be the Genetic Genealogist herself, CeCe Moore!

CeCe Moore is the genetic genealogy consultant for the popular PBS television series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Her work has also been featured on 20/20, Genealogy Roadshow, Nightline, Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, Crime Watch Daily, Nancy Grace, CBS This Morning and The Doctors, as well as being quoted in many online and print publications. Her primary focus is promoting genetic genealogy education and sharing positive stories about the power of genetic genealogy through the media. CeCe is the co-founder of the Institute for Genetic Genealogy and has written the popular blog Your Genetic Genealogist since 2010.

Ms. Moore will be in Tucson on Saturday, March 10, 2018, for an all-day DNA seminar. Her talks will span beginning, intermediate, and advanced tools for incorporating DNA into your family history research process.

This seminar promises to be a very popular one and will probably sell out quickly. Keep an eye out on our blog for upcoming details and registration information when they become available.

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Genealogy Apps and Family History Blogs—Saturday, June 17, 2017

Come join us this Saturday, June 17, for two fascinating topics.

Our meeting starts with a class on Using Genealogy Apps on Your Tablet by Kathi Gardner. Following the class, Nicole Dyer will present a program on Tips on Sharing Family History with a Blog.

Nicole has been researching her ancestors and delighting in their stories fro over fifteen years. She and her mother regularly write on their "Family Locket Blog."  They share tips and ideas on how to get children interested in their family history, share research tips, and talk about family reunions, crafts, FamilySearch, and much, much more. Nicole spoke at RootsTech 2017 on Kid Genealogists - Inspiring the Next Generation. She is also the developer of the Preschool Family History Storytime held in April and May and the June Family History Craft Day at the Tucson Family History Center (visit the Tucson Family History Center Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1695205970728001/ for details).

Our general meetings are free and open to members and non-members alike. Hope to see you there!

DATE:	Saturday, June 17, 2017
TIME:	1:00pm - 3:00pm
PLACE:	Banner-University Medical Center Duval Auditorium (Room 2600) 1501 N. Campbell Rd. Tucson, AZ

Support Pima County Genealogy Society for Father's Day

Father's Day is coming up this Sunday, June 18. Remember that if you shop Amazon through our portal at smile.amazon.com, Amazon will donate 0.5% of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to PCGS! This donation has no impact on the price you pay for the item, it is covered completely by Amazon's profits.

Click on the Amazon Smile icon to the right of this blog post to register Pima County Genealogy Society as your charity organization of choice, then go to smile.amazon.com instead of https://www.amazon.com/ whenever you shop at Amazon. It's that simple!

Be More "Source Centric" for Less

Did you like what you heard at today's meeting about the Evidentia software? You're in luck! Thomas McEntee of Genealogy Bargains is extending an exclusive offer of 25% off the Evidentia Software & Book Bundle. Click here to get the details and the promo code. This offer ends May 31, 2017.

Were you unable to attend the meeting and are curious about Evidentia but not quite ready to buy? Evidentia offers a 14 day free trial. Visit their home page at https://evidentiasoftware.com/ to download the free trial.

Putting a Spark into Starting (or Restarting) Your Family Tree

PCGS is pleased to announce a new workshop: Charge! Putting a Spark into Starting or Restarting Your Family Tree, featuring members of our Board of Directors.

This beginner's workshop is limited to 30 participants. Our seasoned genealogists will cover these topics:

• Documents to gather and search
• Chart basics and genealogy tools
• Moving from paper to digital
• What and where to document

Our instructors have a combined 95+ years of experience.


Barbara Salyer

• 45+ years genealogical research, instructor, speaker & author
• Certified Genealogist for 25 years
• Member of the National Genealogy Society (NGS) and the Federation of Genealogy Societies (FGS)
• Member of D.A.R. (Tucson Chapter) & Daughters of Colonial Wars
• Received Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008, from Arizona State Genealogical Society

Jodi Lynn Strait

• Doing genealogical research for over 20 years
• Member of the National Genealogy Society (NGS); completed NGS home study course.
• Boston University Genealogical Research Program certificate holder
• Member of Chinkchewunska (NJ) chapter of the D.A.R.

Amy Urman

• Researching her family roots for over 30 years
• Member of the National Genealogy Society (NGS), Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), and Federation of Genealogy Societies (FGS)
• Boston University Genealogical Research Program certificate holder
• Graduate of ProGen 28, SLIG Law, and SLIG Land

The workshop will be held on Saturday, June 3, 2017 from 9:30AM to 12 Noon in Rooms 2500 E & F at Banner-University Medical Center, 1501 N. Campbell Road, Tucson, AZ. The cost to attend is $15 for PCGS members and $20 for non-members. 

To register, visit our website at https://azpimagensoc.org/cpage.php?pt=33 and pay on-line at the PCGS Marketplace (Members must sign in before registering to get the discounted rate) or print the form and mail to us along with your check. But hurry, registration and payment deadline is Saturday, May 27.

FREE Western European Family History Conference

FamilySearch is again hosting free online research seminars.

The first is the Western European Family History Conference on May 15-19, 2017. This seminar is for anyone who has German, French, Belgium, Dutch, Swiss, and Luxembourger ancestry. It is 5 days of classes in order to help you find your ancestors. You can attend in person or online. Registration is required to attend in person or online. Check out the FamilySearch Wiki for registration, class descriptions and handout links herehttps://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Western_European_Family_History_Conference. Below is a schedule of classes (all times are in MDT, Arizona is one hour earlier):

TIME	Monday, 15 May	Tuesday, 16 May	Wednesday, 17 May	Thursday, 18 May	Friday, 19 May
Germany	France	The Low Countries	The Netherlands	Switzerland
9:00-10:00 AM MDT	Finding German Places of Origin	Finding Your French Ancestors Online, part 1 (FamilySearch and Ancestry)	Latin for Researchers	Names in Belgium and the Netherlands	Beginning Swiss Research
10:15-11:15 AM MDT	Spelling Variations in German Given and Place Names	Finding Your French Ancestors Online, part 2 (FranceGenWeb)	Calendar Changes in France, Germany, Switzerland and the Low Countries	WieWasWie, Past the Index: What to do Next	Swiss Maps and Gazetteers
11:30 AM-12:30 PM MDT	Meyer's Gazetteer Now Online, Indexed and Fully Searchable!	Finding Your French Ancestors Online, part 3 (Geneanet)	Gazetteers and Maps for Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands	Dutch Provincial and City Research	Swiss Archives Online Records
2:00-3:00 PM MDT	German Church Records and Beyond: Deepen Your Research Using a Variety of Town Records	Out of the Ashes of Paris	Beginning Research in Luxembourg	Dutch Research Before 1811	Swiss Census Records
3:15-4:15 PM MDT	Elusive Immigrant: Methods of Proving Identity	Research in Alsace-Lorraine	Beginning Research in Belgium	Finding Your Family in the Amazing Online Amsterdam City Archives	Swiss Chorgericht Records

Save the date for two upcoming week long seminars:

• September 11-15, 2017, Nordic Research Seminar
• October 2-6, 2017, U.S. Research Seminar

Evidentia and The Family History Guide--Saturday, May 20, 2017

We have a special treat for you at this Saturday's general meeting.

We will start the meeting with Rondie Yancey presenting a class on Evidentia, a unique program that helps you to analyze your evidence, resolve conflicts, and confidently reach sound conclusions. The software follows the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS) developed by the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG).

Rondie Yancey was born and raised in the Northwest, but settled in Tucson in 1989, and considers Tucson the best place in the world to live. It was shortly after moving to Tucson that she became interested in genealogy, and began research on one family that she thought might take one or two years to complete….(short pause for laughter to subside). After all these years, she still thinks genealogy is the most fascinating of subjects, and likes to create small books about members of her ancestral line for the benefit of family members who don’t have time or inclination to do the research, but who do enjoy reading about their family history.


Following the class, Bob Black  will present a program on The Family History Guide. This free new website represents a best-in-class learning environment for family history. Its scope is broad, but its focus is narrow enough to help you achieve your goals, step by step. The Guide's mission is to "greatly increase the number of people actively involved in family history worldwide, and to make everyone's family history journey easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable."

Bob Black spent 20+ years working in healthcare human resources before retiring. In 2011, he began working at the eastside Tucson Family History Center along with his wife, June. He began serving as Director there in 2014. Bob's passion is helping people at the Center with their family history discovery journey.

Remember, if you are not a PCGS member yet, you may attend up to two meetings as a non-member at no charge.

Handouts will be available to PCGS members under Secure Download in the Members Only section of our website (https://azpimagensoc.org/).

DATE: Saturday, May 20, 2017
TIME: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
PLACE:  Banner-University Medical Center, Duval Auditorium (Room 2600), 1501 N. Campbell Rd., Tucson