Wednesday, May 23, 2012

"The Family History in Your Cells: Using DNA for Genealogical Research"  

10:00 am to 12:00 pm - Savannah Recreational Center

Presented by Drew Smith

Drew Smith, MLS, has been an Assistant Librarian at the University of South Florida Tampa Library since 2007. Prior to his current position, he was an instructor for the USF School of Library and Information Science (now the School of Information) for more than 12 years. He is the Secretary of the Association of Professional Genealogists, a Director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, and President of the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. He has been the editor of the Federation’s monthly newsletter, the FGS Voice, since 2008. Together with co-host George G. Morgan, Smith has produced more than 200 hour-long episodes of the Genealogy Guys Podcast. Smith is author of the book Social Networking for Genealogists, published in 2009 by Genealogical Publishing Company. He has written extensively for NGS Magazine, Genealogical Computing, and Digital Genealogist.
 

    Dealing with Maiden Names - presented by Pam Cooper

Since 1986, Ms Cooper has been the Supervisor of the Archive Center and Genealogy Department for the Indian River County Main Library in Vero Beach, where she has grown the collection from 250 to more than 30,000 titles. Throughout her professional career, she has held leadership positions in the Federation of Genealogical Societies (national organization), the Florida State Genealogical Society and Indian River Genealogical Society. Ms Cooper is the recipient of the Filby Prize for Genealogical Librarianship (2000), Award of Merit from the Federation of Genealogical Societies (2003) and the Indian River County Laurel Award for Professional Leadership (2007).