Dear Society Program Chair,
THANK-YOU for considering DearMYRTLE as a virtual speaker for an upcoming genealogy society meeting or all-day seminar. You may elect to have your group attend a private DearMYRTLE Zoom Webinar or open it to the public to watch virtually thereby building interest in joining your organization.
Click to send Myrt an email.
- Need more variety in society presentations?
- Limited budget? - No need to for airfare and hotel expense.
- Why not consider having Ol' Myrt appear "virtually" from her office, direct via the internet, to your meeting place?
- 2020-2021 Sample Speaking Contract (in Adobe Cloud format)
A member of your society hooks up his computer to the internet and a computer projector so attendees can see DearMYRTLE and with a webcam so DearMYRTLE can see your audience within your usual meeting place.
IMAGE: Your live audience view, as the speaker is being introduced. |
IMAGE: The computer set up including the webcam pointed to the audience, so the speaker can view them. For more info see: Why Host Virtual Presentations? |
- Computer projector and screen in your usual meeting room.
- Computer with high speed internet access.
- Computer speakers with microphone close by, or a telephone system wired into the meeting room's sound system. In a pinch, we've used a speakerphone placed near the mic at the podium, with remarkably good results.
MYRT'S
SPEAKING TOPICS
Myrt
delights in assisting beginners to get off to the right start with their family
history research.
DearMYRTLE's New 21st Century Genealogy
Researchers' Strategy Series includes:
·
Ancestry.com Trees Can
Jumpstart Your Family History Research
·
Blogging for Beginners
·
More Blogging for
Beginners
·
Dropbox for Genealogists:
Syncing files rather than backing them up.
· FamilySearch is Your New BFF
· Google Alerts and setting up your Google Home Page
·
Google Books
·
GMail and Multiple
Calendars
·
5 Ways to Share Ancestral
Stories
·
Google Drive: Your Office
in the Cloud
Recent
successful presentations appropriate for beginning to intermediate genealogy
researchers include:
·
7 HABITS of Highly
Effective Genealogists very popular!
·
TALE OF TWO CITIES:
Immigration and Naturalization Overview
·
Accessing Lineage Society
Apps (Emphasis on DAR and DUV)
·
Clothesline Approach to
Document Evaluation
·
Composing Effective
Queries
·
Determining What to Search
Next
·
Easy Digital
Newsletters
·
FamilySearch Indexing
·
Finally Get
Organized!
·
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY:
Internet Research for Patient Genealogists
·
Getting from a Book or CD
to the Original Document
·
LITTLE HOUSE ON THE
PRAIRIE: Land Records for Genealogists
·
Major Migration Patterns
of Germans to America
·
Medical Practices of the
US Revolutionary and Civil Wars
·
MOBY DICK: Our Ancestors
on the High Seas
·
MR. SMITH GOES TO
WASHINGTON: Research strategies in the National Capital Area
·
PODCASTS: Learn While
Jogging
·
PODCASTS: Creating &
Listening
·
Preparing for a trip to
Salt Lake
·
ROMEO & JULIET:
Marriage Practices & Records
·
The Clothesline Approach
to Document Analysis
·
THE TIME MACHINE: Offbeat
Resources for Family Historians
·
THE WINTER OF OUR
DISCONTENT: 3 Months to Better Organization
·
Tracing American
Revolutionary War Ancestors
·
Union Civil War Pension
Files
·
WAR & PEACE: US
Military Records
·
Where to Look Next
·
WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS:
Finding Female Ancestors
Alternately, we could devise a customized presentation that better suits the needs of your society membership.
SCHEDULE OF VIRTUAL MEETING whether in your meeting room or with individual attendees.
Usually,
a society has an opening session including a few brief announcements prior to
introducing the speaker.
· At
Contract: DearMYRTLE will schedule the Zoom Meeting event, and
see that your contact person receives the email invitation.
· 1
month before: Your society provides DearMYRTLE with society logo for
her blog announcement of the meeting and the opening screen of her PowerPoint.
· 1-2
weeks before: Practice at meeting place for a technical run-through.
· 1
hour before: Registered attendees reboot their computers. This ensures
there will be no windows of web browser updates. Be sure to disable any extra
programs like Dropbox and Outlook that may attempt to auto-update during the
presentation.
· 15
minutes before: All registered attendees log in to their personal URL
found in their confirmation email.
· 5
minutes before: Call the group to order. Ask meeting attendees
to turn off their microphones, can cause interference with Zoom.
· Meeting
begins – brief announcements
· 5 minutes into the meeting - introduce DearMYRTLE
· 45 minutes into the presentation: Questions and Answers