6 Reasons to attend Today’s Technology for Genealogy conference on April 20th

Using Spreadsheets for Genealogy: Whether you’re an expert at spreadsheets or you’ve never tried to use them, you should have this tool in your genealogy research toolbox. This session will demonstrate spreadsheet basics and provide examples of how you can enhance your research documentation and analysis.

Photo Digitization and Scanning Basics: Preserving family photos can be an overwhelming task.

What is the best way to organize and preserve the actual photos and keep track of digital images? This session will cover strategies for scanning your images and documents to preserveand share with family.

Protecting Your Computer Research: You’ve invested hours of time and effort to capture your family research. Where will you be if your computer doesn't start, or your laptop is lost or stolen? This session will offer tips for securing your data and provide ideas for how to add this vital step to your regularresearch process.

Airtable Basics: This cloud-based database is one of the newer tools being adopted by genealogists and it’s free to use. Airtable is a spreadsheet, but it's so much more. You can manage a research log, create a timeline, and track FAN club members and DNA matches all in one place. This session will address the basics of using Airtable to organize and help analyze your research.

Topic:   My 2023 Travel to Netherlands and Germany

Judy Nanke and Diane Green traveled to Amsterdam and into Germany in September of 2023.  Judy will talk about her travels getting there and getting around  (planes, trains, boat, S-Bahn, taxi, bus and car,) and some highlights like the BallinStadt Emigration Museum in Hamburg, the Resistance Museum in Amsterdam, traveling to a few of her ancestor’s villages in central and southwestern Germany, and more.

Speaker:  Judy Nanke