Information regarding tracks offered
in 2018 is forthcoming.
2018 INSTITUTE TRACKS & CLASSES
Track 1: Fundamental Methods and Strategies
Coordinator, Shelley Murphy
Faculty: Shelley Murphy, Judy Russell, Melissa Tennant Rzepczynski, Angela Walton-Raji
Class Offerings:
* Intro to Allen County & PERSI - Tennant Rzepczynski
* Time & File Management and Organization - Murphy
* Determining Evidence with Records and Resources - Murphy
* A Genealogy Case Study - Murphy
* So What What’s? Next-Evidence Analysis - Murphy
* Creating Genealogy Timelines - Murphy
* Public Records & the Law - Russell
* Slavery and the Law - Russell
* When Worlds Collide - Russell
* Documenting the Ancestral Community - Walton-Raji
* Telling the Story, of How You Solved A Problem - Walton-Raji
* You Made it to 1870—Now what? - Murphy
Track 2: DNA & Genealogy (Sections a & b)
Coordinator Bernice Alexander Bennett
Faculty: Shannon Christmas, Janice Lovelace, Judy Russell, Nicka Sewell-Smith
Focus Track 2a: This section is for individuals who are new to DNA testing and have not taken a formal course or feel competent that they understand the basics of Genetic Genealogy
Track 2b: – This section is an intermediate DNA class and it it designed for individuals that have taken a DNA course either through MAAGI or another entity and are ready to move into intermediate to advance DNA analysis.
Pre-requisites for all participants in both tracks: Participants should have taken at least one autosomal DNA test and received their results prior to attending to MAAGI. Any of these tests are suggested: AncestryDNA, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage DNA.
Additional Requirements:
Class Offerings:
Track 3: Intermediate Genealogy - Pre & Post Slavery Era Research
Coordinator: Janis Minor Forté
Faculty: Juliana Szucs, Ancestry.com; Roberta Ridley, Allen County Public Library; Dr. Alfred Brothers Jr., Lt. Col Air Force Retired, Melissa Tennant, Allen County Public Library; Janis Minor Forté, Chicago AAGHSC, and MAAGI Track Coordinator
Focus: This track focuses on methodology and skill-building techniques to finding documents; exploring record systems, analyzing evidence and developing new research pathways to pre and post emancipation era family history.
Class Offerings:
Track 4: Genealogy Writing From Planning to Publication
Coordinator: Angela Walton-Raji
Faculty: Janis Minor Forté, Thomas MacEntee, Shelley Murphy, Nicka Sewell-Smith, Angela Walton-Raji
Focus: The goal is to present the various methods of writing the genealogy story. At the end of the institute, participants will have created an e-book, planned a book proposal, or outlined their own book for self-publication.
Class Offerings:
* Allen County & PERSI - Tennant Rzepczynski
* Time and File Management for your Writing Project - Murphy
* Developing your Book Proposal for Mainstream Press - Walton-Raji
* It's All About Writing - Murphy
* Time to Professionalize! It's All About You, Telling the Story - Murphy
* Publishing a Genealogy E-Book - MacEntee
* Self-Publishing for Genealogists - MacEntee
* Microsoft Word & Self-Publishing - MacEntee
* Using Canva For Publication Design- Smith
* Writing & Documenting The Ancestral Community - Walton-Raji
* Publishing a Heritage Book- Forté
* Telling the Story of How You solved A Problem - Walton-Raji
Coordinator, Shelley Murphy
Faculty: Shelley Murphy, Judy Russell, Melissa Tennant Rzepczynski, Angela Walton-Raji
Class Offerings:
* Intro to Allen County & PERSI - Tennant Rzepczynski
* Time & File Management and Organization - Murphy
* Determining Evidence with Records and Resources - Murphy
* A Genealogy Case Study - Murphy
* So What What’s? Next-Evidence Analysis - Murphy
* Creating Genealogy Timelines - Murphy
* Public Records & the Law - Russell
* Slavery and the Law - Russell
* When Worlds Collide - Russell
* Documenting the Ancestral Community - Walton-Raji
* Telling the Story, of How You Solved A Problem - Walton-Raji
* You Made it to 1870—Now what? - Murphy
Track 2: DNA & Genealogy (Sections a & b)
Coordinator Bernice Alexander Bennett
Faculty: Shannon Christmas, Janice Lovelace, Judy Russell, Nicka Sewell-Smith
Focus Track 2a: This section is for individuals who are new to DNA testing and have not taken a formal course or feel competent that they understand the basics of Genetic Genealogy
Track 2b: – This section is an intermediate DNA class and it it designed for individuals that have taken a DNA course either through MAAGI or another entity and are ready to move into intermediate to advance DNA analysis.
Pre-requisites for all participants in both tracks: Participants should have taken at least one autosomal DNA test and received their results prior to attending to MAAGI. Any of these tests are suggested: AncestryDNA, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA and MyHeritage DNA.
Additional Requirements:
- All students are required to purchase and read: The Family Tree Guide to DNA Testing and Genetic Genealogy by Blaine T. Bettinger, and Genetic Genealogy in Practice by Blaine T. Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne.
- Must have received your autosomal and other DNA test results.
- Participate in one MAAGI DNA Conference Call – TBA
- Download an upload your autosomal results to Gedmatch.com
- Create a spreadsheet of your results
Class Offerings:
- The Beginner’s Genetic Genealogy - Christmas
- The Genetic Network - Christmas
- DNA Standards and privacy/ethics - Russell
- DNA and Genealogy - Christmas
- Strategies for Using Autosomal DNA - Christmas
- Genetic Genealogy Planning - Christmas
- Emotional Side of DNA - Smith
- GEDMatch, what to do with it and how? - Christmas
- Off-Site Solutions - Smith
- I’ve Just Done my DNA, Now What? - Smith
- From Widows to Slavecestors to DNA - Smith
- DNA and connecting the Dots - Smith
Track 3: Intermediate Genealogy - Pre & Post Slavery Era Research
Coordinator: Janis Minor Forté
Faculty: Juliana Szucs, Ancestry.com; Roberta Ridley, Allen County Public Library; Dr. Alfred Brothers Jr., Lt. Col Air Force Retired, Melissa Tennant, Allen County Public Library; Janis Minor Forté, Chicago AAGHSC, and MAAGI Track Coordinator
Focus: This track focuses on methodology and skill-building techniques to finding documents; exploring record systems, analyzing evidence and developing new research pathways to pre and post emancipation era family history.
Class Offerings:
- Search Strategies and Using Trees to Organize Information: Getting the Most out of Ancestry – Szucs
- Exploring Collections Beneficial to African American Research: Hidden Treasures at Ancestry – Szucs
- Exploring US Probate Records on Ancestry: Slaves identified by name, age, grouping, bill of sale estate settlement, in court records, research tips -Szucs
- Discovering Unfamiliar African American Resources at Allen County Library. What's New, What's
- Different and How to Find It - Tennant
- African American Military Records: Search, Find, Decipher, Understand, Incorporate – Brothers
- Founding of a Nation: The Revolutionary War & Post Revolutionary War Period Records – Brothers
- Rebirth of a Nation: The Civil War and Post Civil War Period Records; U.S. Becomes a Superpower
- The Expeditionary Wars: World War I, and World War II Records – Brothers
- Case Study: Discovering a Migration Past of Valuable Genealogical Information - Ridley
- Researching the Digital Library on American Slavery: Learn Search Techniques for six database website – Forté
- "...Massa Went to War, and Took His Slave With Him": Southern Confederate Pension Applications, Learn new research skills, discover pre and post slave era personal and family information – Forté
- Seven Proven Strategies to Identify the Slave Holder: Finding Missing Kin and Reconstructing Families. Learn exploration, methodologies and strategies in record system search - Minor Forté
- What’s My Brick Wall? Focus: A problem solving session. Participants present brick wall/road block in brief. Work Group(s) analyze, strategize, brain storm, review, report - Minor Forté
Track 4: Genealogy Writing From Planning to Publication
Coordinator: Angela Walton-Raji
Faculty: Janis Minor Forté, Thomas MacEntee, Shelley Murphy, Nicka Sewell-Smith, Angela Walton-Raji
Focus: The goal is to present the various methods of writing the genealogy story. At the end of the institute, participants will have created an e-book, planned a book proposal, or outlined their own book for self-publication.
Class Offerings:
* Allen County & PERSI - Tennant Rzepczynski
* Time and File Management for your Writing Project - Murphy
* Developing your Book Proposal for Mainstream Press - Walton-Raji
* It's All About Writing - Murphy
* Time to Professionalize! It's All About You, Telling the Story - Murphy
* Publishing a Genealogy E-Book - MacEntee
* Self-Publishing for Genealogists - MacEntee
* Microsoft Word & Self-Publishing - MacEntee
* Using Canva For Publication Design- Smith
* Writing & Documenting The Ancestral Community - Walton-Raji
* Publishing a Heritage Book- Forté
* Telling the Story of How You solved A Problem - Walton-Raji
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