VIDEOS & HANDOUTS FROM RCGS MEMBER PROGRAMS
Links to viewable files from RCGS speakers' programs appear below.
WHAT'S A WEBINAR?
Web-based seminars - or webinars - are pre-recorded or sometimes "live" broadcasts via the Internet and typically include an audio feed of the speaker's voice overlaid on a video slideshow. Video Links and audience handouts for these presentations may be found below, so you may view these presentations on your phone, tablet or smartphone.
Web-based seminars - or webinars - are pre-recorded or sometimes "live" broadcasts via the Internet and typically include an audio feed of the speaker's voice overlaid on a video slideshow. Video Links and audience handouts for these presentations may be found below, so you may view these presentations on your phone, tablet or smartphone.
2024 RCGS SCHOLARSHIP WORKSHOP
- Building and Using Timelines for Genealogy by Ruth Anderson, RCGS Librarian and Archives Director, RCGS Scholarship Conference, October 2024, includes audience handout free to the public
- The Genealogy of Agriculture in Rock Co., WI, Part 1 by Michael Roach, Local Historian, October 2024, includes audience handout members and attendees only
- The Genealogy of Agriculture in Rock Co., WI, Part 2 by Michael Roach, Local Historian, October 2024, includes audience handout members and attendees only
- Time to Ship Another Steer - Preserving Your Family Legacy by Bill Mueller, Author, Genealogist, Storyteller, October 2024, includes audience handout members only
- Beginning Genealogy - Getting started by Mary Buelow, Local History and Genealogy Librarian, Hedberg Library, includes audience handout, October 2023, free to public
- Intermediate Genealogy - Evaluating Evidence - by Ruth Anderson, RCGS Librarian, October 2023, includes audience handout free to public
- 50 Google Tips & Tricks for Online Family Researchers - by David Bradford to the WBCGS on March 2021, includes audience handout free to public
- Finding Genealogy Records Anywhere - parts 1 & 2 - by Lori Bessler, WHS to Scholarship Conference June 2021, includes audience handout members only
- What did my Ancestors Die of? - Finding & Using Death Certificates by David Bradford to Scholarship Conference June 2021, includes audience handout free to public
- Armchair Genealogy - Jump-Start Your Research from Home by David Bradford to the RCGS membership, January 2023, includes audience handout free to public
- Using Janesville's 7th Day Baptist Church Library & Archive by Rev. Nick Kersten, Dir. of Education & History for the SBD National Conference, August 2023, includes audience handout free to public
- The Story of the Great Peshtigo Fire by Kern Humiston, author and researcher, May 10, 2022, includes audience handout members only
- Milton House and the Underground Rail Road - by Keighton Klos, Executive Director of the Milton House Museum, June 2022, includes audience handout members only
- Finding my Family - A Story by Brian Richards, historian, researcher, and storyteller December 2020, includes audience handout members only
- Translating, Transcribing and Summarizing Documents Using AI by Thomas MacEntee, genealogical speaker, publisher, and entrepreneur, March 2025, includes audience handout free to public
- How to Use the NEHGS Website; AmericanAncestors.org by Melanie McComb, NEHGS Librarian, RCGS Presentation, 14 May 2024, includes audience handout free to public
- How to Use MyHeritage.com as your Personal Genealogy Archive by Melissa Barker, Archivist/Historian, Houston Co., TN Archives, Jan 2025, includes audience handout members only
- Genealogy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) by Thomas MacEntee, genealogical speaker, publisher, and entrepreneur, January 2024, includes audience handout free to public
- DNA Hunter - Finding Adoptees' Families by Mary Eberle, Madison-area attorney, and adoption-related DNA researcher, January 2023, members only
- Using Photos & Text Captions in Microsoft Word by Rene Love-Cue, Iowa native, genealogist and member of the Pima County, AZ Genealogical Society, February 2024, members only
- Introduction to Family Tree Maker Software by Mark Olsen, Family Tree Maker Ambassador, RCGS Presentation, 10 October 2023, including link to special FTM pricing free to public
- African American Genealogy; Janesville's Dr. Daniel Hale Williams & Robert Boyd by Mary Buelow, Local History & Genealogy Specialist, The Hedberg Librarian free to public
- Locating Polish Vital Records Online by Julie Roberts Szczepankiewicz, Secretary of the Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts, April 9, 2024, members only
- Navigating Norwegian Genealogy by Dana Kelly, Executive Director of the Norwegian American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library, March 8, 2022, members only
- Digging into Your Norwegian Genealogy by Dana Kelly, Executive Director of the Norwegian American Genealogical Center & Naeseth Library, November 14, 2023, members only
- German Immigration to Wisconsin by Antje Petty, Assoc. Dir. & Outreach Manager of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, April 2025, includes audience handout, members only
- Germans to America - Finding your German Ancestors' Immigration Trail, by John Wasserstrass, the German Interest Group (GIG), June 2023, includes audience handout members only
- Unique Aspects of Jewish Genealogy (video webinar) by Debbie Kroopkin, President of the Illinois State Jewish Genealogy Society, December 12, 2021, includes audience handout members only
- How to Research Like a Pro by Dianna Elder, AGⓇ, AGLTM, November, 2024, includes audience handout free to public
- Using Newspapers to Enrich your Family History A presentation by Renee Love-Cue, AGⓇ, Genealogist and Family Historian, February, 2025, free to public
- Improve your Research Skills with Lineage or Heritage Societies by Ruth Anderson, RCGS Librarian, May 2025, includes audience handout free to public
- The Wisconsin Historical Society Collections & Services by Lori Bessler, March 2024, includes audience handout members only
- Photo Re-touching & Photo Preservation (2 presentations) by Desiree Shaw, RCGS Newsletter Editor, October 2023, members only
- 15 Habits of Highly Frugal Genealogists A presentation by Thomas MacEntee, genealogical speaker, publisher & entrepreneur, May 2021, includes audience handout members only
- Using Census Data to Advance your Family Research, 1790-1850 (video webinar) A presentation by Lori Bessler, Genealogy and Local History Specialist in the Wisconsin Historical Society's Library, Archives and Museum Collections division, April 2022, includes audience handout members only
- Can I use that in My Genealogy? What you should know about Copyright by Thomas MacEntee, genealogical speaker, publisher & entrepreneur, January 2017, includes audience handout members only
- Finding the Genealogy of a House and Those Who Lived There by Vicki Ruthe Hahn, President of the State Line Genealogical Society, includes audience handout, July 2022, free to public
- Rags to Riches; The 17th Century New England Witch Panic & My Ancestor's Role (video webinar) A presentation by David Bradford on June 2024, includes audience handout free to public