OGS Seminar History

NOTE: The documents linked to below can also be found on the Downloads/Seminar page.

2026 -- Cyndi Ingle: "Decoding Your Ancestors: The Tech Edition". See event details. Online meeting via Zoom.

2025 -- Blaine Bettinger: "AI Made Easy: Boosting Your Genealogy Research with Technology". See event details. Online meeting via Zoom.

2024 -- Rich Venezia: "Immigration and Naturalization". See event details. Online meeting via Zoom.

2023 -- Judy G. Russell: "Spend a Day with The Legal Genealogist®". See event details. Online meeting via Zoom.

2022 -- Diahan Southard: "DNA: Today's Matchmaker". See event details. Online meeting via Zoom.

2021 -- Rick Sayre: "Land and Military Records". See event details. Online meeting via Zoom.

2020 -- Teresa Steinkamp McMillin: "Ancestral Origins Through the Eyes of a German Genealogist". See event details. Online meeting via Zoom.

2019 -- Blaine Bettinger: "Beyond the Basics: Genetic Genealogy in Practice". See event details.

2018 -- Lisa Alzo: "Find Your Immigrant & Miscreant Ancestors". See event details.

2017 -- Janice Lovelace and Jill Morelli: "Taking New Paths . . . in your genealogical trek". See event details.

2016 -- CeCe Moore: "The Power of Your DNA". See event details.

2015 -- Thomas MacEntee: "Genealogy -- The Future is Now". See event details.

2014 -- Christine Rose: "Getting on the Right Track: Avoiding the crooked path in your genealogical research". See event details.

2013 -- Thomas MacEntee: "Tools for the 21st Century Research". See event details.

2012 -- James L. Hansen: "Researching in the old Northwest: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin". See event details.

2011 -- Lethene Parks, JoAnne Haugen, Beverly Rice, and Jim Johnson: "Migration by Wagons, Trains, and Ships". See event details.

2010 -- John Phillip Colletta: "Welcome to America!". See event details.

2009 -- Henry Z. "Hank" Jones, Jr: When The Sources Are Wrong, Tracing the Origins of Early 18th Century Palatine & Other Emigrants, Family Tradition: How to Separate Fact From Fiction, Genealogy in the New Millenium. See event details.

2008 -- Emily Aulicino, Lee James, and JoAnne Haugen: "The ABC's of DNA: Genetic Genealogy and Its Uses". See event details.

2007 -- Deanna Egeland Dowell: "Are You a Descendant of the Vikings?" and Jo Ann B. Winistorfer: "Did Your Ancestors Settle in the Dakotas?" See event details.

2005 -- Kory Meryerink: "Tracking Your Immigrant Ancestors with Emphasis on German Research". See event details.

2004 -- Sherry Irvine: "Finding Your Irish Roots". See event details.

2003 -- Linda Woodward Geiger: "New England Genealogy". See event details.

2002 -- Paul Milner: "British Isles Research". See event details.