Are you drowning in genealogy data? Family history research often creates problems that are too big, too complicated, or with too many moving parts in anything but Excel. If only Excel could speak genealogy better!

Part of the NGS GenTech Toolbox series, join Mark Thompson for Excel for Genealogists, an engaging, hands-on workshop designed specifically for genealogists. Mark will show you how to leverage key Excel features through real-world genealogy examples and share strategies to better organize and analyze your family history information.

In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to:

You’ll leave with practical skills you can immediately use to improve your genealogy projects.

Find more information and register at https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/genealogy-courses/gentechtoolbox/.

Vital records do not survive for all time periods, or they may never have existed. Many regions in the United States, for example, didn’t start recording vital records until the late nineteenth century. In this online lecture, Chief Genealogist David Allen Lambert will discuss how to ensure you are doing an exhaustive search, provide information on alternate sources, and how to draw conclusions from multiple sources when a “smoking gun” record doesn’t exist. We will also discuss how to narrow a timeframe when even less information can be found.

Presented by American Ancestors, this 60-minute lecture will include three, 10-minute intervals for audience Q&A for a total of 90 minutes. The cost is $25.

Registration includes access to:

Register at https://www.americanancestors.org/events/when-record-doesnt-exist-strategies-determining-vital-data-about-your-ancestors.