Event Schedule
Friday, April 26, 2024
8:00 AM - Check-In Opens
8:00 - 8:45 AM - Check In and visit with vendors (we ask that all guests be in their seats by 8:45 AM)
8:45 - 9:00 AM - Welcome and Introductions
9:00 - 10:00 AM - Using Y-DNA and mtDNA to Explore Your Ancestry - Blaine Bettinger
10:00 - 10:30 AM - Break and visit with vendors
10:30 - 11:30 AM - Shared Matches and Genetic Networks - Blaine Bettinger
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Lunch and visit with vendors
1:00 - 2:00 PM - Breakout Session
1A: Preserve Your Family Photos: Both Print and Digital - Christie Johnson
1B: Germans from Russia - Ruth Boettcher
2:00 - 2:30 PM - Break and visit with vendors
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Identifying and Examining DNA Outliers - Blaine Bettinger
Saturday, April 27, 2024
8:00 AM - Check In Opens (for Saturday only attendees)
8:00 - 8:30 AM - Check In and visit with vendors
8:30 - 9:00 AM - NSGS Annual Meeting
9:00 - 10:00 AM - Building Research Trees and Tracking the Living - Blaine Bettinger
10:00 - 10:30 AM - Break and visit with vendors
10:30 - 11:30 AM - Breakout Session
2A: Case study "Tracking a Bigamist: How newspapers, marriage records, census records and prison records revealed the story of John Franklin Shane, his aliases and his victims" - Teresa Shane
2B: Marriages, Murder and Vigilantes: A Frontier Odyssey - Gail Blankenau
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Lunch and visit with vendors
1:00 - 2:00 PM - Breakout Session
3A: Sharing Research with Non-Genies - Sue Schlichting
3B: Life in a Sod House & Solomon Butcher Photos - Tammy Hendrickson
2:00 - 2:30 PM - Break and visit with vendors
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Understanding Ancestry DNA’s TIMBER and SideView Tools - Blaine Bettinger
3:30 - 4:00 PM - Door Prizes and Closing
Be a Vendor!
Attendees will have the opportunity to visit vendor tables before and after presentations and during breaks. To promote your business or event at this conference for as little as $15, complete the Vendor Registration Form and submit payment via mail, postmarked no later than April 10th, 2024, or pay your registration fee via PayPal.