Lecture Topics

Interested in having Lori speak for your genealogical event (in person or virtually)? This list reflects currently available and under development topics.

States/Regional Research

  • Deep South Roots: Alabama and Mississippi Ancestors
  • Mississippi Roots: Finding Your Magnolia State Ancestors
  • Alabama Ancestral Sources
  • Researching Your North Carolina Ancestor
  • Researching Your Tennessee Ancestor
  • Appalachian Genealogical Research from the Comfort of Home
  • Finding Ancestors in the Great Smoky Mountains
  • Tennessee Research from the Comfort of Home
  • North Carolina Research from the Comfort of Home
  • Virginia Research from the Comfort of Home [under development]
  • Researching Your Virginia Ancestor [under development]
  • Researching Your South Carolina Ancestor [under development]
  • Researching Your Georgia Ancestor [under development]

Religious Records Research

  • Researching Your Baptist Ancestor
  • Researching Your Tennessee Baptist Ancestor
  • Baptist Ancestors in Tennessee and the Carolinas
  • Christians Only: Finding Your Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Ancestors
  • Religious Records in the Bible Belt
  • Finding Family in Religious Newspapers and Periodicals
  • Plain and Fancy: Researching Amish and Amish-Mennonite Ancestors [under development]
  • Researching Your Ancestor’s Church [under development]
  • Shepherding the Flock: Building a Clergy Profile [ under development]

DNA

  • The Basics of DNA for the Family Historian
  • DNA Analysis Using 3rd Party Tools
  • Using GEDmatch
  • DNA and Genealogy: Benefits and Cautions
  • Working with Your AncestryDNA Results
  • Working with Your DNA Results

Records

  • Discovering the Family Bible
  • Exploring Your Ancestor’s World With Maps
  • Cousin Harry’s Tree Adventure and Other Newspaper Discoveries
  • Treasures in the University Library and Archives
  • Digging Up the Dirt on Your Farmer
  • Genealogical Resources in Smaller Colleges and Universities: The Appalachian College Association
  • Federal Depository Libraries and Your Genealogical Research
  • Using Special Collections and Archives in Your Genealogical Research
  • Rendering Unto Caesar: Taxation Records [under development]
  • The 1950s in Newspapers [under development]

Focused Record Groups

  • Digging Up the Dirt on Your Farmer
  • Grinding Out a Living: Millers and Millwrights
  • Little School on the Prairie: 19th Century Frontier Teaching
  • National Youth Administration (NYA): The New Deal for Young People
  • The Language of Food: Using Cookbooks in Your Family History Research [under development]
  • Farm Living: Agricultural Records and Resources [under development]
  • With Needle and Thread: Women’s Stories Told [under development]
  • First Person Accounts of World War II: Autobiographies and Oral Histories
  • The Y: Meeting Needs of Young Men and Women Since 1844 [under development]
  • Give Me Your Poor: Records of Poorhouses, Paupers, and Charities Serving the Impoverished [under development]

Methodology

  • Examining the Evidence
  • Check-Up Time: Reviewing and Updating Old Research
  • Climbing the Family Tree
  • Building Locality- and Topic-Specific Research Guides
  • Creating Locality-Specific Guides
  • Research Guides: A Key to More Exhaustive Research
  • Descended from Charlemagne?: Opportunities and Hazards of Online Family Trees

Organization

  • Personal Library (and Reading) Management
  • Genealogy in the Clouds: Evernote, DropBox, Delicious, and More
  • Organizing Your Society’s Library and Archives
  • Bringing Order to Small Genealogical and Historical Libraries
  • A Is for Arrangement: File Organization for Genealogists

Writing

  • Righting Your Wrongs Through Writing
  • Telling Your Ancestral Story
  • WikiTree: Collaborating, Documenting, and Sharing Your Family History
  • Writing Workshop: Improving Your Writing Skills [3 hours including 15 minute break]

Other

  • Social Media for Genealogists
  • A Trip Full of Memories: Successful Genealogical Research Trips
  • Branching Out: Online Family Trees
  • Treasured Tastes: Creating a Family Cookbook [under development]

All Day Beginner’s Seminar (4 sessions)

  • Warning!: Family History Can Be Addictive
  • Digging a Little Deeper in the Family Tree
  • Researching from the Comfort of Home
  • DNA and Genealogy: Benefits and Cautions

Talks for Librarians and Archivists

  • Bro. North, Northampton, and the Old North Church: Assisting Genealogical Researchers in Church-Affiliated College and University Libraries
  • Building a Core Genealogy Methodology Collection
  • Connecting Patrons with Genetic Genealogy Resources
  • Preserving Church Records and Histories
  • Genetic Genealogy Reference: Steering Patrons to the Right Resources
  • Increasing Resource Discoverability in Your Online Catalog