The Saskatchewan Genealogical Society Conference 2020 "2020 Vision: Seeking Ancestors Using DNA and Digital Tools"
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The Saskatchewan Genealogical Society Conference 2020
“2020 Vision: Seeking Ancestors Using DNA and Digital Tools”
17-19 April 2020
Coronet Hotel*, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Registration**
▪ Registration ($125-$155) opens January 20, 2020
▪ Early Bird Registration $125-$130 by March 1 (not including banquet ticket)
▪ Regular Registration $150-$155 (not including banquet ticket)
▪ Banquet tickets $40 must be purchased with registration and available until April 9
▪ Printed syllabus $12
▪ Pre-reserved Ancestry DNA kit(s) and/or individual session
▪ Registration closes April 9
**Includes a FREE National Institute for Genealogical Studies course ($89 value)!
Payment options are eTransfer, cheque, and credit card. There is a $5 fee for credit card.
Cancellation requests received on or before April 9 will receive a full refund minus a
$25 administration fee. Cancellation requests received after April 9 will be at the
discretion of the Prince Albert Branch.
*Request conference discount during reservation call. Coronet Inn 306-764-6441
Visit princealbertgenealogy.wordpress.com.
Email pabranchsgs@gmail.com.
Call Diane 306-922-8821 or Ed 306-961-7600.
Gene 2020 Schedule and Speakers
Fri April 17
13:00-16:00 Self-Guided Tours
18:30-22:00 Registration and Social
20:00-21:00 Plenary #1 "Secrets and Shenanigans: How AncestryDNA Helped with an Unexpected Mystery"
Lesley Anderson
Sat April 18
07:30-09:00 Registration, Breakfast, and Marketplace
09:00-10:00 Plenary #2 "Finding Fallen Saskatchewan Soldiers Online" Doug Chisholm
10:10-11:10 1A 1B 1C
"Getting the Most Out of "How to Digitize Your Legacy "Research and Share the
Researching on Ancestry" Family Photos and Social Media Way" Lianne
Lesley Anderson Documents" Art Taylor Kruger
11:20-12:20 2A 2B 2C
“Using AncestryDNA to Power "Finding Women Home- “Write on the Back of Your
Your Family History Research” steaders in Saskatchewan" Digital Images” Art Taylor
Lesley Anderson Connie Gerwing
12:20-13:20 Lunch
13:30-14:30 3A 3B 3C
"Ancestry Online Trees" "Searching SaskArchives New "Use YouTube to See Your
Lesley Anderson Catalog Plus" Reference Family with 20/20 Vision"
Archivist Lianne Kruger
14:50-15:50 SGS AGM
18:00-20:00 Reception and Banquet (Meal starts at 18:30) Ticket required.
20:00-22:00 Plenary #3 "Using Online Resources for Saskatchewan History" Bill Waiser and Social
Sun April 19
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:00 4A 4B 4C
“Cautions and Unexpected "Self-Publishing on Amazon" "A Fresh Light on Old
Revelations When Using DNA Johanne Gervais Newspapers" Dave Obee
to Grow Your Family Tree”
Tammy Tipler-Priolo
10:10-11:10 5A 5B 5C
“Free Digital Tools for "Myth-busting Ancestry" "The Geography of
Canadian Genealogists and Lesley Anderson Genealogy" Dave Obee
Beyond” Tammy Tipler-Priolo
11:20-11:40 Closing and Evaluations (Post-conference, Lesley Anderson offers one-on-one DNA and research
assistance: 20 minute session $50.00, 30 minute session $75.00)
Session Descriptions Plenary 1 "Secrets and Shenanigans: How AncestryDNA Helped with an Unexpected Mystery" Lesley Anderson When my 88-year-old friend's adoptive mother died in 1952, she left an envelope with her adoption papers. I thought researching her family tree would be easy. Little did I know that I would spend over 2 years of research, building multiple family trees and sending out many DNA kits! Using this case study we will go through the process to show how you can use AncestryDNA with your family tree and research to break down brick walls and discover your real story. Plenary 2 "Finding Fallen Saskatchewan Soldiers Online" Doug Chisholm Doug Chisholm is a northern Saskatchewan bush pilot and researcher of Canadian military history. Through his company, Woodland Aerial Photography, Doug helps interested families to connect with relatives who lost their lives in the Second World War. This session focuses on online research methods to find fallen Saskatchewan soldiers. Concurrent 1A "Getting the Most Out of Researching on Ancestry" Lesley Anderson This presentation is a basic overview of how to use Ancestry’s Canadian website, Ancestry.ca, but there are many useful tips and hints for anyone starting out on Ancestry no matter which country you're researching in. Topics to help you get the most out of your search on Ancestry.ca include the Home page, the Search page the Card Catalogue, Global Search, Searching by location and category i.e. Census, Birth, Marriage and Death, Immigration, Military, Individual Databases. Helpful search tips will also be covered. Concurrent 1B "How to Digitize Your Legacy Family Photos and Documents" Art Taylor (Virtual) Are you tired of hauling out the slide projector and screen to see the slides in your collection? Does your slide projector still work? Do you have shoe boxes or plastic bins filled with prints and negatives you haven’t seen in years? Wouldn’t it be great to pop a DVD into the player, sit back with your feet up and watch slides and prints on TV? This clinic will give tips on how to convert your legacy prints, negatives, and slides to a digital format that can be combined with your digital camera’s images and shared in several ways. You’ll get tips on: features to look for when purchasing a scanner; tips about the software that you’ll need to use with a scanner; file formats to use for your scanned images; how to archive and backup your new digital files;
and how to produce electronic slide shows on DVD that can be viewed on a standard HDTV and posted on your web site or sites like YouTube. You’ll also see some of the techniques and tools used to restore faded or physically damaged original images so they look almost like new. Concurrent 1C "Research and Share the Social Media Way" Lianne Kruger (Virtual) Social media can help you with researching your family, help and training, how to share information, and meet distant relatives in multiple platforms. In this beginner-intermediate session, we will discuss researching your family, research help and training, sharing information with others, and meeting distant relatives. The platforms we will evaluate are Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Blogs, and Instagram. Concurrent 2A "Using AncestryDNA to Power Your Family History Research" Lesley Anderson Lesley Anderson will cover tips on getting the most out of your DNA results and the new tools we can use to discover more about our ancestry and DNA. Concurrent 2B "Finding Women Homesteaders in Saskatchewan" Connie Gerwing Under the Homestead Act only women heads of households were allowed to apply for a homestead in Western Canada. Besides this barrier to women homesteaders there was also a barrier of language and culture for the many non-British women. This presentation will look at finding German speaking and Ukrainian/Polish women who managed to apply for homesteads in the early settlement days of Saskatchewan. Using a database, block settlement maps and land descriptions it was possible to find a number of these women who applied and filed on their own homesteads in those early years. Concurrent 2C "Write on the Back of Your Digital Images" Art Taylor (Virtual) Adobe Bridge is a free program from Adobe. It works with both Windows and MacOS, letting the user add the digital equivalent of notes written on the back of a photo print or on a slide mount to identify the Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How behind each image. It works with both digital camera photos and with those scanned from paper prints, negatives, or slides. The IPTC Cultural Heritage Panel, also a free download, was created by a group of professional librarians, museum curators, and archivists to provide places for such pros and the general public to enter information in a digital format to help all users of such digital images learn who and what are shown in a particular image. Text entered in these data fields is fully searchable, so if you want to find all of the photos in a collection containing a relative’s name, you could enter the name in a search box and quickly find all of the relevant photos.
Anyone, regardless of level of experience, who has digital images, whether from a digital camera or from
scanned photos and documents, can benefit from this presentation. Those whose research has yielded
information about the Who, When, Where, Why, and How of individual digital images will learn how
that research can be included digitally with their images.
Concurrent 3A
"Ancestry Online Trees"
Lesley Anderson
Online trees are a great way to organize your finds and connect with other family historians who share
your ancestry and may have information to share. If you already have your tree on Ancestry or maybe
you’re reluctant to put up your tree publicly online, this presentation will show you tips and techniques
to make the most out of your family tree at Ancestry.
Concurrent 3B
"Searching SaskArchives New Catalog Plus"
Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan
The Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan will be presenting on its new public access catalogue AtoM, and
how to search and use this database. The presentation will also include an update on our move, as well
as reference services and distance research services. The presentation will be led by one of our
Reference Archivists.
Concurrent 3C
"Use YouTube to See Your Family with 20/20 Vision"
Lianne Kruger (Virtual)
Lianne will show and discuss the following reasons to use YouTube in family history:
1. YouTube has a video for everything you want to learn, and she will show how to find
genealogical tutorial topics.
2. Create your own videos using your phone, tablet or PowerPoint.
3. Create your own channel to store, as a backup, and share, with family, old home videos. Also
store and share videos (Vlogging) you create to document your family history.
Plenary 3
"Online and Offline Resources for Saskatchewan and the Great War"
Bill Waiser
Bill Waiser will talk about the impact of the Great War on Saskatchewan, his visits to the Great War
battlefields and memorial sites in France and Belgium, and how he has used digital records to tell soldier
stories, including that of his great uncle who was lost at the Somme.
Concurrent 4A “Cautions and Unexpected Revelations When Using DNA to Grow Your Family Tree” Tammy Tipler-Priolo (Virtual) This lecture will discuss cautions while using DNA to build your family tree including privacy, trustworthiness, making contact with others, the ever-changing field, etc. as well as unexpected revelations including half siblings, community connections, adoptions, etc. Knowing the pitfalls and where to step when building your tree with DNA results will help you to stay on track and give you confidence that you are tracing the correct family lines. Concurrent 4B "Self-Publishing on Amazon" Johanne Gervais (Virtual) This presentation will provide participants with an overview on how to self-publish on Amazon.com. Areas covered will be 1). Why Amazon.com is one of the best self-publishing services for genealogists who wish to share their family history material with a broader audience and 2). The publishing process, which includes all the steps required to self-publish on Amazon.com Concurrent 4C "A Fresh Light on Old Newspapers" Dave Obee (Virtual) Researching in old newspapers no longer means sitting at a microfilm reader for hours on end, winding through a seemingly endless string of news stories and advertisements. Today, the results we seek could be a matter of minutes away, thanks to the many digitization projects that have placed millions of newspaper pages on the Internet. But what are the pitfalls? This presentation takes you through the digitization process, from hard copy to your computer screen. It is designed to help you achieve the best results from your work. Concurrent 5A “Free Digital Tools for Canadian Genealogists and Beyond” Tammy Tipler-Priolo (Virtual) This lecture will discuss digital tools that are free to use by any genealogist including databases, social media, archives, libraries, blogs, websites, etc. Genealogy as a hobby can get quite expensive. Learn ways to find information on your ancestors for free. Learn the tricks and tips of the trade that all professionals have been using for years. Everyone likes to save a buck and get something for nothing and this lecture will show you where to go and how to go about saving and learning at the same time.
Concurrent 5B "Myth-Busting Ancestry" Lesley Anderson There seems to be misinformation about Ancestry and this session will bust those myths and misconceptions! This is an opportunity to ask your questions, solve your dilemmas, and learning tips and tricks. Concurrent 5C "The Geography of Genealogy " Dave Obee (Virtual) It is impossible to do comprehensive genealogical research without an understanding of where your ancestors lived. There are several good reasons to use geographic tools in your research. They help you to determine where you are from. They will also help you to find records dealing with your family. Maps and atlases help genealogists sort out where their ancestors lived in relation to regional and national boundaries, churches, rail lines, and other factors that help determine which records hold most hope. Geographic tools will also give you a sense of what life was like for your ancestors. This talk provides a basic overview of what to look for, and how to use the information that you find. (Please note that there are versions of this talk tailored for Canadian research, for English research, and for European research.) Speaker Biographies Lesley Anderson Lesley Anderson has worked for Ancestry.ca for over 12 years as their Canadian Spokesperson and has done numerous presentations for genealogical societies and conferences across Canada as well as TV and radio appearances. She has been involved in the personal research of her family tree for over 50 years and her passion for genealogy has branched out to DNA genetic genealogy, teaching classes, speaking at seminars and conferences, consulting and doing research for others. Recently she organized a group of 30 on a research and sightseeing trip to Ireland. For years she was well known for her computer and genealogy classes offered through the Ottawa Catholic Board Continuing Education and her “field trips” to various archives and libraries. She was the Director of Education for British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa (BIFHSGO) for many years and volunteered at the Ottawa Stake – Latter Day Saints (LDS) Family History Center where she gets great enjoyment out of helping new and experienced genealogists with their research.
Doug Chisholm Since 1997, Doug Chisholm has been actively researching the background on the 4000 geographic features which our province named in memory of Saskatchewan servicemen who lost their lives during the Second World War. Over the years, Doug has recorded aerial photos from his floatplane of almost all of the 4000 geo-memorial sites, and has been in contact with many of the families. At about 300 sites, Doug has landed his floatplane and installed a bronze memorial plaque on the shoreline, recording videos and photos of each visit. Many interesting stories have emerged, often through chance encounters and sometimes just simple “word of mouth” exchanges shared among people. Doug Chisholm has a strong interest in Saskatchewan history, and over the years made numerous speaking presentations to SGS groups. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, the Saskatchewan Archeological Society, the Saskatchewan War Memorial Committee and the Melfort and District Museum. In the past, he has served on the Board of numerous other organizations including Saskatchewan History and Folklore Society, Heritage Saskatchewan and the Saskatchewan Geographic Names Board. He currently lives on a rural acreage north of Melfort and is very familiar with northern Saskatchewan having previously lived in La Ronge for 35 years. Doug continues to fly his Cessna 180 on numerous heritage related research projects. Johanne Gervais Johanne Gervais, BSc, MBA, worked for over 25 years at various large companies in Montreal developing and implementing computer business systems. She became interested in genealogy while helping her husband write a book about his family for his mother’s 90th birthday. In 2008, Johanne left the corporate world to dedicate herself to genealogical research. Johanne has her own company Gervais-Laekas Services which includes Québec Family Search (www.quebecfamilysearch.com) specializing in Québec genealogical research. She lives in St-Bruno-de-Montarville, Québec, only 20 minutes from the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in Montreal. She is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and does contract research work for AncestryProGenealogists (research firm of Ancestry.com), genealogists.com, LegacyTree Genealogists, and Gen-Find Research Associates, Inc. Johanne’s speciality is Québec research and gives various genealogical lectures including The French Canadian Disease, Self-Publishing on Amazon, and Researching Your French Canadian Ancestors.
She is the founder of the Québec Genealogical eSociety (www.genquebec.com), a completely virtual non-profit genealogical society launched in February 2018 to facilitate participation, learning, and research in Québec. Connie Gerwing Connie Gerwing is president of the Prince Albert Historical Society and has a B.Ed. and M.Ed. from the University of Saskatchewan. She is currently working towards finishing the history degree she started in 1966. Her research, "Finding Women Homesteaders in Saskatchewan" was done as part of a project for a history seminar. Lianne Kruger Lianne Kruger has been teaching computer software classes since 1982. She began genealogy as a teenager in the 1970s and has continued doing genealogy. She has researched back to the first white landowner of Canada. She loves teaching how to use technology comfortably and how to save time in researching, storing, and sharing family history using technology. Recently, Lianne presented at RootsTech, the Ontario Genealogical Society, The Genealogy Show, FamilyRoots, AGS and more. Please check out the following link for a list of her sessions, including when and where she has presented: ifamilyhistory.blogspot.com/p/my-speaking-experience.html.
Dave Obee Dave Obee is a journalist and genealogical researcher who has written a dozen books and given more than 600 presentations at conferences and seminars in Canada, the United States and Australia since 1997. He is Editor and Publisher of the Times Colonist in Victoria, British Columbia. He has worked as a journalist in British Columbia and Alberta since 1972. Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan Reference Archivist Reference Archivists typically have a master's degree in either Archival Studies or History. They help members of the public with their research needs, including help finding the appropriate records for the searches, and using the various collections in our holdings. They are also responsible for promoting the archival collection and its use to the public. Art Taylor Art Taylor is currently working his way through hundreds of inherited family photos, dating from pre-1867 to the 2000s, scanning, identifying people, places, and events shown. As a third generation amateur photographer, he has accumulated thousands of his own photos and slides over five decades. He has been working with scanners of various types for over 20 years, digitizing assorted documents and photos, prints, negatives, and slides. Previously, he has done similar presentations at Sudbury’s Parkside Centre and for several model railroad groups. Art is an active member of the FaceBook Technology for Genealogy Group, answering members’ questions about scanning. He has also guest posted on www.scanyourentirelife.com for Curtis Bisel.
Tammy Tipler-Priolo Tammy is a professional genealogist with over 25 years of experience. She has many years of national and international lecturing experience including experience as a speaker with various webinar platforms. She presented at the Saskatchewan Genealogical Society (SGS) conference in 2016. She is a member of APG, OCAPG, GSG, OGS. She has her own business “The Ancestor Investigator”, has written over 1000 genealogy articles, written for the SGS Bulletin for over 10 years, and written over 100 biographies. She has been conducting research for clients since 2000. She has extensive experience using digital tools for genealogical research starting in 1997 when the Internet was introduced to her corner of the world. Bill Waiser Bill Waiser is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan. His many books include A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan before 1905, winner of the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Bill is a member of the Order of Canada and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit. in 2019, he received the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media (the Pierre Berton Award).
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