Castle Rock Colorado Genealogical Society

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The Genealogy Minute

Greetings! Take a look at our upcoming classes and workshops.

FTM Special Interest Group Presented by Noel Ferre and Frank Snow Wednesday May 18th from 10:00 AM to Noon Zoom Meeting - Registration Required Bring your questions and challenges as we wrap-up our special interest group dedicated to Family Tree Maker software. To register, go to Member Login, then Class Registration

Lies, Errors and Bias--Oh, My! Consider Your Sources Presented by Sunny Morton Saturday May 21th from 10:00 AM to Noon Zoom Meeting - Registration Required If your sources aren’t reliable and strong, your family history “facts” and stories won’t be, either. Learn to look critically at the sources that inform your research: the “what, who, when and why.” These criteria may indicate how much you can trust what individual sources say about your ancestors. Sunny Jane Morton is an internationally-known genealogy speaker and award-winning writer and editor. Her lectures are packed with try-this-now strategies and delivered with humor, humanity, and plenty of motivating examples and stories. Read More

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DNA Special Interest Group Facilitated by Chris Hansen and Laura Schuck Wednesday June 1st from 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM Zoom Meeting - Registration Required  This session is on third party tools, covered in Chapter 8 in The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine Bettinger. We will talk about segment data, DNA painter, DNAGedcom, and review GEDmatch. To register, go to Member Login, then Class Registration

Shaky Leaf Syndrome – Using Website Generated Hints More Effectively Presented by Sara Cochran. Thursday June 2nd from 10:00 AM to Noon Zoom Meeting - Registration Required

Indexing, optical character recognition, and computer algorithms make finding obscure records about our families easier than ever! Unfortunately, computers can’t distinguish between people of the same name who lived in different places or at different times. Using real examples, we’ll practice evaluating hints and attaching the keepers to our trees. To register, go to Member Login, then Class Registration

Special Interest Groups Our Special Interest Groups will meet again after a short break. Look for Colonial America in August and DNA will resume in October. FTM will resume if enough interest.

AmericanAncestors.org Courtesy of CRCGS CRCGS sponsors a subscription to AmericanAncestors.org through our local Castle Rock, Colorado library. If you have New England ancestors, this is of special benefit to you. AmericanAncestors.org is FREE to anyone from inside the Philip S. Miller Library at 100 S. Wilcox Street in Castle Rock.

SHARE Sharing Help And Research Experience Every Monday 10:00 AM - Noon Join us in a Zoom room for a drop-in collaborative event. Register to receive meeting information. We welcome all!

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CRCGS Members View video recordings of our 2 most recent programs Log into the website and look for 'Program Recordings' in the Members section.

Airtable for Genealogy: Beyond Spreadsheets Presented by RudyRamsey Recorded May 5th

Finding Ancestral Homelands Presented by Clair Brisson-Banks Recorded April 9th

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About Us:  The Castle Rock Colorado Genealogical Society (CRCGS) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization of individuals with a passion for the discovery of their ancestry. The society functions through the support of volunteers who contribute their knowledge, time, and effort. The mission of the society is to (1) promote genealogy through education and research, (2) encourage high standards of research, instruction, documentation and preservation, and (3) locate, preserve and index public and private records, and make them available. Copyright © 2022. All Rights Reserved.