Our next meeting will be on Saturday, August 28th at 10:00 a.m.  Announcements will begin at 9:45 a.m.  This meeting will be held via Zoom.  Luana Darby is our presenter and the topic will be "Beyond Ancestry – Overlooked and Underused Subscription Sites". 

 

Ancestry.com may be genealogy's biggest subscription web site, but it's not the only one in town. Quite a few smaller and newer sites offer some of the same collections as Ancestry.com, as well as their own unique and valuable resources for research. From Fold3.com to Accessible Archives, we’ll explore several lesser-known subscription sites in detail.
 
Genealogy and the recording of family history has always been a passion for Luana. She began organizing photos, documents, and information on her grandmother's family in 1977 and has researched for others since 1985, working as a professional genealogist since 1995 and as a forensic genealogist since 2014. She frequently travels to Europe for genealogical research on site in archives in Germany, Poland France, and Italy.
 
She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Genealogical Speaker's Guild, the National Genealogical Society and the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (IFSHWE). She has served as director (2009-2011), vice president (2009), president (2010-2011), and treasurer (2012) of the Utah Genealogical Association and served on the board of the Association of Professional Genealogists and as an indexer for the Illinois State Genealogical Society Quarterly. In January 2015, she joined the faculty of BYU-Idaho as an online family history instructor teaching analysis and genealogy as a business course. She worked as an in-house genealogist for BYU-TV’s series Relative Race in seasons 3 & 4 and was the chair of the NGS 2020 virtual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah.
 
JCGS members will automatically be sent the Zoom link. If you would like to become a JCGS member, you can join online today!  If you are not a JCGS member and you would like to attend, please email us at info@jcgsks.org by Thursday August. 26. We will respond on Friday Oct. 23 (before midnight) with with the meeting information and link.

 

 

The Johnson County Genealogical Society is taking its show on the road. Since the Johnson County Central Resource Library and genealogy desk are closed for the remainder of the year due to remodeling, the society will be offering several drop-in events at other library locations. This will give the community the opportunity to stop by and visit with a Johnson County Genealogical Society member. JCGS volunteers will be available with laptops to answer questions on how to get started, provide suggestions for finding relatives, and information on resources that can help break through a brick wall. Free resource kits will be available, and information will be provided about databases that can be accessed at the library and from home computers. These drop-in genealogy events are free with no appointment or registration required. Stop by with your genealogy questions and share this information with your family, friends, and neighbors who might need some help getting started.

 

Available at the following Johnson County Library locations:

 

 

We have a wide variety of events happening every month at JCGS.  From Monthly Meetings to Special Interest Groups to Genealogy Treehouse Chats, we're sure you'll find something that may be of interest to you. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Note: Regularly scheduled in-library Genealogy Desk help hours are not currently available due to Covid-19.  However, we are continuing to offer one-on-one help via Zoom.  Please use the links below if you would like to sign-up for an online help session.

 

JCGS volunteers are available Monday - Saturday from 9-5 at the Genealogy Desk at the Johnson County Central Resource Library for general questions.  For those looking for a little extra help with either Basic Genealogy or DNA & Genetic Genealogy we also offer free one-on-one sessions that can be booked in advance.

 

Basic Genealogy sessions are available most Tuesday mornings. This is not for brick wall or advanced research help.

 

 

 

DNA & Genetic Genealogy sessions are available most Friday mornings.

 

 

 

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