Who do you think you are LIVE 2012

Speakers notes and presentations

The Who do you Think You Are LIVE 2012 conference was held in February in London. The speakers notes and presentations have been posted on the Society of Genealogists website, (albeit very difficult to locate).  As a beginner to Genealogy, these workshops provided some pathways for me, explained concepts and research procedures and gave me some much needed direction for my family research.

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Roundup of WDYTYA Live 2012

The workshops presented on the day are listed below.

Friday, February 24

• Historical Maps by Richard Crowhurst
• What’s online for Ireland - an Overview by Paul Gorry MAPGI
• Harness Google Earth for Family History by Lisa Louise Cooke
• National Wills Index by Ian Galbraith
• Why pay for your Family History by John Hanson
• Your Norfolk Ancestors by Gill Blanchard
• How do I research before 1837  by Else Churchill
• Using Census Substitutes for your Irish ancestral research by Helen Kelly
• Dating and researching family photographs 1880s to 1940s by Jayne Shrimpton
• British Records on the FamilySearch website by Sharon Hintze
• Reading the writing of the past by Dominic Johnson
• My ancestor was in Civil Registration – Well they should have been! by John Hanson
• Researching you ancestors in British India by Peter Bailey
• Missing Links – some ideas and techniques for finding elusive ancestors by Else Churchill
• Writing your family memoir by Maureen Taylor
• Discover Scottish church records by Chris Paton

Saturday 25th February

• Using google images and beyond – a genealogical goldmine  by Maureen Taylor
• The future of family history on the Internet by Peter Christian
• Irish Land and Property records – valuable sources for Irish genealogical research by Helen Kelly
• Organising your Research With Technology by D Joshua Taylor
• Researching your Yorkshire ancestors by Jackie Depelle
• Heraldry – Why it matters to genealogists by Prof Bruce Durie
• My ancestor was in Civil Registration – Well they should have been!  by John Hanson
• Irish research online by Chris Paton
• Stuck in London – resource at Society of Genealogists and elsewhere by Else Churchill
• Google search strategies for the family historian  by Lisa Louise Cooke
• How to get free help with your family history by Darris G Williams
• Moving from amateur to professional genealogist: Are you ready? by Eileen M O’Duill

Sunday 26th February

• Writing your family history – top tips  by Gill Blanchard
• Nottinghamshire family history by Dominic Johnson
• Starting your Irish family history by Helen Kelly
• Wiltshire Wills, Berkshire Beneficiaries, Oxfordshire Obituaries by Gillian Stevens and Chad Hanna
• Surname searching in the treasures of the Society of Genealogists by Else Churchill
• Early Irish Marriages  by Rosalind McCutcheon
• Harnessing the Facebook generation  by Janet Few
• I’ve lost my ancestor before 1837 – where did he come from by Celia Heritage
• Charts to visualise your family tree by Janet Hovorka
• By her labours: finding female forebears by Jane Howells