Mastering the Full Powers of Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com is one of the most popular and valued genealogical tools in the world.  Understanding and maximizing its usefulness, and keeping up with Ancestry’s changing content and format, is essential in order to efficiently search and record your family’s history.  In this lecture we will discuss research strategies and Ancestry’s new tools to help you become a more effective family researcher.

This one-hour program, conducted over Zoom at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, is free for members. This is one of the many activities that is a benefit of JGSGW membership. Instructions for joining the online meeting will be placed under Meeting Info & Links in the Members Only Files. (These files become visible on this website after members sign in.) Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $5.

Speakers: Sydney F. Cruice is a professional genealogy researcher, writer, teacher, and international lecturer with over 25 years of experience. Sydney specializes in the Mid-Atlantic region with an emphasis on military and land records. She has lectured at institutes and conferences including SLIG, IGHR, IAJGS, IGGP, RFIPA. She is known for her Foundations of Genealogy courses, which she taught at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania for over seven years. She now offers these courses independently. Sydney also served as the President of the Association of Professional Genealogists for the Greater Philadelphia Area Chapter for six years. She earned her BA from Pennsylvania State University and her MBA from Drexel University.