JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (US) National Archives March Genealogy Programs; Family Search Free March and April Webinars #general


Jan Meisels Allen
 

The National Archives (US) genealogy programs for the month of March have
been announced. All programs at the National Archives are free and open to
the public. The programs will be held at the National Archives in Washington
DC at will be held in the National Archives Building Research Center (Room
G-25), in Washington, DC. The programs are free and open to the public.

Introduction to Genealogy at the National Archives
Wednesday, March 4, at 11 a.m., Room G-25, Research Center

"Help! I'm Stuck" Genealogy Consultation
Saturday, March 21, noon-4 p.m., Room G-25, Research Center

Last October 28-30 the National Archives hosted a live 3-day virtual
genealogy fair via webcast on YouTube and they may be accessed at:
http://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair/
To read more go to:
http://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2015/nr15-50.html

FamilySearch provides free webinars every month and have posted the upcoming
ones for March and April at:
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Family_History_Library#March_2015
Note the times are all (US) Mountain time and to convert to your time zone
use\ http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

When you click on any of the webinar links please note effective February 25
they changed to WebEx as their webinar provider. I would strongly encourage
you to read the pdf with instructions **before** you attend the webinar so you
are all set to go at the correct time.
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/a/a6/AttendMeetingInstructions.pdf

There are directions on the page (remember to click on one of the webinar
dates to access this information) to join the webinar and set up WEB-EX.

To see the webinars go to the first url under FamilySearch above-not
everyone will find each webinar of interest so pick and choose to your own
preferences.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

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