Close your eyes and imagine a painter’s palette with shades of green–South Dakota, where we held the Rapid City event, and here in Sheridan are so green it looks as if they have been painted with a brush.\u00a0 Raining daily.\u00a0 The prairie grasses are washed bright green.<\/p>\n
The Research Process<\/strong> in its several parts is the focus of this circuit of Expos.\u00a0 And each session is being taught by a select handful of presenters:\u00a0 Holly Hansen, Leland Meitzler, Ruby Coleman, Donna Potter Phillips, Marlo Schuldt, Ken Aubuschon, Tom Underhill, Billy Edgington, and Arlene Eakle.<\/p>\n You can learn the tech to trace your roots by attending the last two events on the circuit–Sheridan at the Holiday Inn or Loveland Colorado at Embassy Suites on I-25.\u00a0 Or by ordering the syllabus.\u00a0 As I do.<\/p>\n Holly asked me what I do with the syllabus in print, which I always buy–“I read it.”\u00a0 “Cover to cover, I read it.”\u00a0 I am trying hard to learn new\u00a0 techniques that work as well as the technology available to trace hard-to-find ancestors. At an EXPO, the experts who want to share how to do it better and faster and with greater accuracy.<\/p>\n And this circuit has been a great deal of fun–we visited Wall Drug and its great western bookstore.\u00a0 Mount Rushmore with its four greatest Presidents.\u00a0 Chief\u00a0 CrazyHorse monument and North American Indian Museum with Indian artisans in residence making and selling their handiwork.<\/p>\n Why not join us? On this circuit, or other circuits to come?\u00a0 See http:\/\/familyhistoryexpos.com for schedules.\u00a0 You,too, can learn the tech!\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle<\/p>\n PS Stay tuned.\u00a0 I’ll share some of the learnings that make genealogy so exciting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Close your eyes and imagine a painter’s palette with shades of green–South Dakota, where we held the Rapid City event, and here in Sheridan are so green it looks as if they have been painted with a brush.\u00a0 Raining daily.\u00a0 … Continue reading