Last weekend I spent a lot of time taking classes at Root Tech. Roots Tech is a in person and online genealogy conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah. I think I took 12 classes online. This year they offered a BYU beginner track. I found those interesting and a good way to get back to good fundamentals of genealogy. BYU has an in-person Family History Degree. There was a lot of discussion of the use of AI in genealogy research. It is interesting to see where all that is leading too.
My favorite class had two parts of Mining the Census. There is so much, and so little information contained in them. I also attended a few German Genealogy courses. One of the ancestors I have come from Germany, and it is my brick wall aka dead end. Above all I got a lot of good information and some new methods for breaking down my brick walls. Things didn't consider doing or records I didn't know about. Have you ever heard of a German Gazetteer?
Based on these classes. I will be revisiting two brick walls/ancestors I have hit a dead end on.
Jane Marie Devault (Maternal Line) I have some avenues I am going to research. I am also going to revisit some of my research. I am going to make a good research plan. Part of my plan involves looking for a Best Known Match and I think I have found one, so I am going to try to use that to connect to my tree.
John Lendman - (Paternal Line) I took a number of German Genealogy classes, and I plan to use a German Gazetteer to help me identify where in German he may have come from. I have a place name.
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