Events › Genealogy Workshop with Michael John Neill

Join us for an all day zoom event on a variety of genealogy topics with the fantastic Michael John Neill! 

Michael has been an active genealogical researcher since the early 1980s and has researched his or his children’s families in most states east of the Mississippi River and several European countries. He has lectured nationally on a wide variety of genealogical topics, given day-long seminars, and regularly leads research trips to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and the Allen County Public Library in Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

Michael has a master’s degree in mathematics and has was formerly on the math faculty of Carl Sandburg College in Galesburg, Illinois. His research interests include, methodology, land records, the immigrant experience, chain migration, and researching female ancestors.

This workshop will feature 4 sessions on a variety of topics. See the Preliminary Schedule below 

9:45 Zoom Opens

10a Meeting announcement and introductions

10:15a- 11:15a Session 1: Documentation Roadblocks on the Information Superhighway

11:15a-11:25a break

11:25a-12:25a Session 2: Where Did the Farm Go?

12:25a-1:15p Lunch Break

1:15p-2:15p Session 3: Finding Barbara’s Beaus and Gesche’s Girls

2:15p-2:25p break

2:25p-3:25p Session 4: Is Your Process the Problem?