My Fourth Annual OGS Conference Experience

The front of my program. 

Ten days ago I was enjoying my fourth annual Ohio Genealogical Society Conference.   The first year I was able to attend I was able to go three of the three and a half days because I was off work with a broken leg. The second and third years I was only able to make one day of the conferences due to my work schedule.  This year I was able to attend two days although I did not make the first workshops of the days.  Since I live near enough to commute to this year’s location I wandered in for Elissa Scalise Powell’s ten am workshop entitled “Hiding Behind Their Skirts: Finding Women’s Records”. You can find out more about Elissa at http://powellgenealogy.com/.   My first workshop after lunch was Lisa A. Alzo’s “Using Ethnic Newspapers and Publications in Your Genealogy Research”.  You can find out more about Lisa at https://www.lisaalzo.com/.  After that I was in Paula Stuart-Warren’s workshop “Manuscript Finding Aides: Locating Lost Midwestern Family Records”.  To learn more about Paula click on http://genealogybypaula.com/.   The last workshop I attended on Thursday was presented by Drew Smith and was called “Link Your Tools: Files, Notes, Tasks, and Trees”.  To learn more about Drew go to https://ahaseminars.com/.   I arrived on Friday morning in time for Peggy Lauritzen’s “Plain Folk: Researching Amish and Mennonite Families”.  Peggy can be found online at this link https://misspeggy55.weebly.com/. After lunch on Friday I attended Janice Sellers program entitled “Jewish Genealogy: How Is This Research Different From Other Research”.  Find out more about Janice here http://www.janicesellers.com/AncestralDiscoveries/PGenealogist.html.  My next workshop was John M Barr’s “Unlocking Families Using Land Records In The NorthWest Territory”. John’s website is at   https://oldnorthwestgenealogy.com/ .  I finished up Friday with Lisa Louise Cooke’s workshop on “How to Use YouTube for Family History”.  She can be found online at https://lisalouisecooke.com/.  A great deal of learning was packed into those two days and since I bought the syllabus book I have outlines of all the workshops that were given the entire conference.  If you are interested in genealogy one of the many enjoyable ways to learn more about it is to attend a conference and Ohio’s Conference is a great one to go to.  Enjoy the video below from last year’s conference