Lectures

Topics

Computer Technology

Buying a Computer

Digital Camera Shopping Basics

My First Laptop: What you Need to Know

Healthy PC: Maintain Your Computer

Web Design

Buying a Computer

Digital Camera Shopping Basics

My First Laptop: What You Need to Know - Have you just purchased your first laptop? Deanna will share tips and features specifically useful for laptop users.

Healthy PC: Maintaining your Computer - Deanna discusses computer maintenance such as how to Defrag, Scan for Viruses and Spy Ware, and more.

Genealogy

Ancestry.com

Learn advanced search techniques, save and print the many items available on this massive web site.

Creating a Genealogy Blog
This session will show how blogging can benefit both single and collaborative genealogy research efforts. Practical examples will be shown.

Design a Genealogy Website
Design a family website in a snap using this web based program.

Digital Photography: A Must Have Research Tool - Learn tips and tricks for using your digital camera while researching.

Digital Document Restoration

Discover innovative ways to transform your family treasures into quality digital documents.

Digital Heritage Scrapbooking - Create a multimedia presentation to honor your ancestors and create a CD/DVD, put it online or show it at your next family reunion.

Enhancing Your Genealogy Research using GPS Technology - GPS technology can show you the way to county courthouses, area churches, your ancestor's homestead, family cemetery and much more!  Learn how this technology works and how to incorporate it in your research.

Family Tree Maker
Constructing Extraordinary Trees
Creating Custom Reports
Source Documentation Tricks
Advanced Tips

Genealogy Profiling
Prepare a profile of your ancestor as a time saving tool to use in your research.

Genealogy:  There's an App for That! - NEW!

This session will discuss a dozen ways you can unleash the power of the iPad and iPhone for your research.

Google Books
Discover how useful this service of over a million books can help with your genealogy research. 

Social Networking: A Valuable Resource for Genealogist

Deanna will demonstrate a variety of social networking site and how they may be useful in your genealogy research.

Project Digitization: The Genealogist Guide to Going Paperless  - NEW!
Discover how to turn those piles in to files. Review of scanning equipment, scan demonstration using photos, slides, and negatives, scanning tips, create PDFs and OCR documents and more!

Operation Organization:  A Guide for the Genealogy Geek - NEW!
Tips and tricks for organizing your electronic files .... from photographs, to documents to email! (Great follow up to Project Digitization)

Publish or Perish! - View a sampling of ways to put your work in print!

Retouching Old Photos

Discover how to edit your photos using Adobe Photoshop Elements' powerful photo editing tools and techniques.

Valuable Gadgets for the Family Genealogist

A demonstration of electronic gadgets most helpful for genealogy research.

Deanna will develop new lectures upon request!