Name: Monthly Meeting - "Above the Fold: Your Ancestors in the News"
Start: 2024-06-13T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-06-13T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Erie 1 Boces

Monthly Meeting - "Above the Fold: Your Ancestors in the News"

Newspapers are a fantastic source of research leads, information, and historical context for your family history. The stories of our ancestor’s lives can be found in the pages of archived newspapers. This presentation will help teach you how to better search for your ancestors in the news and how they can help lead you towards answering your genealogy research questions. Jeanette will include examples from newspapers contributed by PGSNYS to NYS Historic Newspapers.
Presenter bio: Jeanette Sheliga of Jeanette’s Genealogy lives in Lockport, NY and has been researching her family tree since 2002 and lecturing since 2011. She has had the privilege to speak for societies and libraries locally and virtually all over the world. Jeanette is the President of the Virtual Genealogical Association (VGA); she holds positions in local, state, and national societies; she has completed the study groups of ProGen 49 and ProGen Practicum 02; and has attended many genealogy institutes.