Happy February! We have a great line-up for the February monthly meeting with topics to sharpen your skills with a new tool and more context to your understanding of your ancestors’ journeys. Join us on Saturday, February 20, 2021 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Arizona time (MST) for our virtual monthly meeting.
An overview of Airtable
Nicole Dyer
All those surnames. So much information about our ancestors. So many DNA matches! How to keep track? Here’s a great idea!
Nicole Dyer will start off our February meeting with an overview of Airtable. In this presentation, Nicole will introduce us to the tool and how she uses Airtable to capture family history and DNA research logs. While Airtable incorporates the strength of database tools, you don’t need to be an advanced technical user for this handy organizational tool. As Nicole says, “If you are familiar with spreadsheets, you’ll pick it up right away.”
Airtable is useful for tracking research done about your ancestors as well as their extended family, friends, associates, neighbors, (FANs) and DNA matches. Airtable also allows for linking records between tables so you can have a database of DNA matches.
Nicole is a professional genealogist, lecturer, and creator of FamilyLocket.com and the Research Like a Pro Genealogy Podcast. She is the co-author of Research Like a Pro: A Genealogist’s Guide. Nicole specializes in Southern United States research. Nicole speaks regularly at genealogy conferences and local events. She is the Secretary and Publicity Chair for the Pima County Genealogy Society. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University in History Teaching.
Where did they go? Migration trails and roads.
Diana Elder
Have you located the route your ancestors might have taken as they traveled to a new area? Could exploring migration open up new areas of research in your genealogy brick walls? Taking a look at the historical roads and trails that our ancestors possibly traveled can add to their story and help understand more about their lives. It might even lead to more discoveries that could expand our knowledge of the family and extend the ancestry.
Our guest speaker is Diana Elder AG® a professional genealogist, author, and speaker. She is accredited in the Gulf South region of the United States through the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen). Diana graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Elementary Education and has turned her passion for teaching to educating teens and adults in proven genealogy techniques. Diana is the author of Research Like a Pro: A Genealogists Guide and creator of the Research Like a Pro study group. She writes regular articles for FamilyLocket.com, the genealogy website created by her daughter, Nicole Dyer. She presents regularly at genealogy conferences, sharing the methods she uses every day to solve challenging genealogical problems.
PCGS February Monthly Meeting
Saturday, February 20, 2021
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
The Meeting Host is April Hale. (Thank you)
Registration for the Zoom Meeting is HERE.
Our monthly meetings are from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Arizona time (MST). They are free and open to members and non-members alike. However, participants in our virtual Zoom meetings are required to register in advance. After registering, the registrant will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The link to register for the February 20 meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuc-mtpjgsGtxuDglXmyyRIFtga68MOelm
The handouts for both lectures are available to PCGS members only on our website in the Secure Download area and the recording of the meeting will be available to members only under Videos: Monthly Meetings area. Not a member? Go to our website’s Join/Renew page and see how easy it is to join online!
DISCLAIMER: We are limited to 100 participants, but Zoom does not stop approving registrations when it reaches the 100 mark. A successful registration does not guarantee a seat in the meeting.
You must be logged in to post a comment.