What to expect during the GeneaSleepOver

DearREADERS,
It's a DearMYRTLE Hangout on Air with 24 hours of non-stop genealogy news, information, interviews and demos along with 15 minutes per hour indexing via FamilySearch Indexing. 

              

Topics and scheduled guests include:

• 15 minutes of indexing each hour
• BlogTalkRadio - a look around
• Amazon.com – Prime, Kindle ebooks aren’t just for Kindles anymore
• Ancestry Member Trees – privacy, collaboration
• Archive and library research - guidelines and protocols
• Australia's "Royalty" - Jill Ball from Australia
• Citing a US Census Source in 4 different genealogy programs – (FTM Russ Worthington, RootsMagic Randy Seaver, Legacy Family Tree Tessa, Ancestral Quest - Claire Brisson-Banks)
• Cyndi’s List
• Direct, indirect, and now the "new" term indeterminable  per Chapter 2 of Thomas W. Jones' Mastering Genealogical Proof,   see also addendum and errata to his book: http://www.ngsgenealogy.org/cs/mastering_genealogical_proof
• DNA & Genealogy Research: Where to go to learn more about it
• Drafting Quality Society Programs
• Ethnicity, what if there is no more paper trail
• Essential genealogy books          
• Evidentia – it’s FamilySearch Certified now
• FamilySearch Catalog – getting used to new things
• FamilySearch Indexing - Review downloading
• FamilySearch Records Search – a slightly better, new look
• FindAGrave - old versus new     
• FindMyPast - Exploring
• Genealogy education options   
• Genealogy Game Night - why host not host something like this for your family?
• German genealogy resources – Timo Kracke from Germany
• Google Alerts
• Google Books
• Google Calendars
• Google Drive
• Google+ Communities for your society or family
• Internet security Issues - Thomas MacEntee
• Interviewing relatives
• Images - are microfilm and digital as good as originals?
• Journaling - telling your own story, Julie Goucher's Book of Me
• Law dictionaries: Beyond Black's Law - per The Legal Genealogist
• Lineage Society applications (even if you don't plan to join) - Sheri Finley
• Linkpendium
• Maps - 14,000+, HistoryGeo
• Mobile devices - favorite apps and a few comparisons
• MyHeritage – online trees, global reach?
• New to a place? Look to genealogy wikis for advice        
• Newspapers - GenealogyBank.com
• NextGen Genealogy Network
• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse       
• Pinterest anyone?
• Podcasting: What is it, how can I listen? - Marian Pierre-Louis
• Professional: What does it take?
• Recommended equipment for hosting an AmbushCAM
• Recommended equipment for hosting HOAs
• Recommended HOA Lighting and background
• Scanning tips and tricks – why you want to tiff sometimes
• Scrapbooks - Is there a place for these with 21 century genealogy
• Setting up a Google Page to correlate with the Page's YouTube Channel               
• Spanish language Hangouts and info - Sonia Meza from Spain
• The Legal Genealogist - copyright issues for genealogists
• Tombstones – filming tips and proper care
• Top genealogy blogs to follow
• Top genealogy Facebook pages
• Traditions - keeping great-grandma's stories alive
• Twitter: What’s it all about? - hashtags, #GenChat, #Tweetchat
• What is CURATING genealogy news? - Thomas MacEntee
• What role does Evidence Explained play in your genealogy research?     
• Why Goodreads?
• WikiPedia
• WikiTrees
• Younger generation – Caitland Gow from Australia
• Younger generation - Janet Hovorka, author of Zap the Grandma Gap

FOR FURTHER READING

FamilySearch's 24 hour Worldwide Indexing Event

Previous GeneaSleepOver posts:

• GeneaSleepOver supports massive FamilySearch indexing effort
• FamilySearch Indexing - GeneaSleepOver start time
• Prepping for the GeneaSleepOver 
• GeneaSleepOver: Get your pink fluffies on!
• DearMYRTLE's GeneaSleepOver: Worldwide Indexing Project

Happy family tree climbing!
Myrt :)
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