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SUMMARY:Leaving a Legacy: Who's Writing Your Story?
DESCRIPTION:Deborah A. Abbott\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nDr. Deborah Abbott is a professional genealogist specializing in African American research\, manuscript collections\, and genealogy methodology.  She is a Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Archives Advisory Commission member and serves on the Lake View (Ohio) Cemetery Outreach Committee. She is an associate with the Kentucky-Tennessee Associates based in Springfield\, TN; past president of the African American Genealogical Society\, Cleveland\, OH; and a retired professor of Counseling from Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. She holds both a BS and an M.Ed. from Tuskegee University in Alabama and a PhD from Kent State University in Ohio.   \n\n\n\nDr. Abbott is an instructor and the coordinator for both the week-long African American tracts at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR)\, held at the University of Georgia in Athens\, GA\, and the Genealogy Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP)\, held at LaRoche University in Pittsburgh\, PA.  She is also an instructor at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) in Salt Lake City\, UT.  She presents lectures and workshops at national\, state\, and local genealogy conferences.  She lectures at colleges\, businesses & libraries. She has published in both the Ohio Genealogy News and Family Tree Magazine. Dr. Abbott can be seen teaching the African American research course “Needles & Threads” in an educational video on Ancestry Academy\, available on Ancestry.com. She coordinates monthly classes for the Genealogy and Family History Clinic for the Cleveland Public Library. \n\n\n\nA Cleveland\, Ohio native\, Dr. Abbott is a life member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority\, Inc.\, the Tuskegee University National Alumni Association\, and Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland. \n\n\n\nA Zoom link will be sent to members and mailing list subscribers the morning of the meeting. \n\n\n\nThe presenters retain the copyright to their presentations\, including all images and other intellectual property. Copying\, recording\, taking screenshots\, transcribing\, AI note-taking\, or redistributing any portion of these presentations in any form is strictly prohibited under penalty of law. The official recording of presentations will be available for a limited time in the members-only section of the Heritage Seekers website. Thank you for understanding and cooperating.
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SUMMARY:I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know! Finding the Truth about Aunt Gwen
DESCRIPTION:Diana Chrisman-Smith\n\n\n\nWe know we need to do reasonably exhaustive searches for information in genealogy – but do we really think about WHAT we need to research? Diana thought she knew all about her Great-Aunt Gwen – she had known her\, her husband George\, their daughter\, and grandchildren all her life. But when someone asked her a simple family question\, she discovered she didn’t have an answer. That search turned into a really interesting and eye-opening experience. Come along as this case study takes us on some unusual twists and turns – including multiple marriages\, divorces\, and more. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDiana Crisman Smith began researching her family in childhood\, and has been researching\, speaking\, writing\, and teaching for over 5 decades. She has particularly enjoyed researching her US\, Canadian\, and Danish ancestors in a wide variety of records and repositories (both in person and online)\, with her late husband. She is a past board member of the Association of Professional Genealogists\, the Florida State Genealogical Society\, the Genealogical Speakers Guild\, and several local societies. Her work has included online courses for land records\, death records\, Scandinavian research\, Danish research\, RootsMagic software\, military records\, and more. She has published numerous magazine articles\, a newspaper column\, and is the author of 3 books (so far).  She and her husband served as lay librarians at a Family History Center (now FamilySearch Center) in Ohio for over 20 years. She has presented at conferences around the USA (in person and virtually)\, and at sea\, and is currently enjoying “traveling” through virtual programs. \n\n\n\nA Zoom link will be sent to members and mailing list subscribers the morning of the meeting. \n\n\n\nThe presenters retain the copyright to their presentations\, including all images and other intellectual property. Copying\, recording\, taking screenshots\, transcribing\, AI note-taking\, or redistributing any portion of these presentations in any form is strictly prohibited under penalty of law. The official recording of presentations will be available for a limited time in the members-only section of the Heritage Seekers website. Thank you for understanding and cooperating.
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