All Day Virtual Seminar
Strategies for Genealogical Discoveries
Strategies for Genealogical Discoveries
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Are you ready to tackle persistent challenges and uncover new family connections? Deepen your research skills and find new pathways to family stories in four sessions.
Are you ready to tackle persistent challenges and uncover new family connections? Deepen your research skills and find new pathways to family stories in four sessions.
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Click on the link to register online and pay with PayPal or credit card: Early Bird Discount! Members $40 Non-Members $60 Beginning August 2, 2026 Members $50 Non-Members $65 Registration Form To register and send a check, your name and email address to Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., PO Box 860477 Plano TX 75086-0477 Not a Member Yet - Join and Save! - Membership Page
Genealogy Friends members get $20 off on the registration fee before August 2, 2026. Members also have access to the Saturday Seminar handouts and recordings (when speaker permits recording). Right now membership is on sale for $45 - this provides membership through September 30, 2027 so you'll get the discount for both the 2026 and 2027 All Day Virtual Seminars. Recordings Recordings will be available for participants. Sponsors: The following companies have provided door prizes. Click on the links to check out their websites: Old News by My Heritage - Historical Newspapers Online Legacy Family Tree Webinars FindMyPast Family Tree Maker - Genealogy Software by Mackiev RootsMagic - Genealogy Software GenealogyBargains.com Family Tree DNA Your DNA Guide Germanology Unlocked History Geo Brick Wall Buster Cards Storied |
Schedule (CDT):
8:30 Zoom Room Opens 8:55 Welcome 9:00-10:00 Making Those Early Census Records Talk to You 10:00-10:30 Break 10:30-11:30 Early Migration and Settlement Patterns 11:30-12:30 Lunch and Door Prize Drawings 12:30-1:30 Follow a Civil Case Through Documents Filed in Court 1:30-2:00 Break 2:00-3:00 Using That Brick Wall as a Foundation 3:00 Wrap Up Topics:
Making Those Early Census Records Talk to You Stop avoiding those pre-1850 census records. Turn those 1's and 0's into clues and lively pictures of your family. Early Migration and Settlement Patterns Discover where a family moved into a state by using the statistical data recorded for all families. Learn to see where families were moving through the decades and use that knowledge to focus your research. Use the earliest records to find roads, communities, and potential neighbors, and develop a process for sweeping through the dust. Follow a Civil Case Through Documents Filed in Court Learn the basics of the legal system. Understand the process of following a case through court including dockets, orders, depositions, etc. Find the key to solving a problem using these records. Using That Brick Wall as a Foundation Feel like you are at a dead end? By reviewing our research, and taking a fresh approach, we can often see new opportunities for finding our family. Use the very evidence that stops you in your tracks to spring over that wall. |
Speaker: J. Mark Lowe, FUGA
J. Mark Lowe describes himself as “born to be curious.” He is a professional genealogist, author, and lecturer who specializes in original records and manuscripts throughout the South. Mark enjoys opportunities to share what he has learned over the years through YouTube, Webinars, and Institutes.
He served as the Course Coordinator for ‘Research in the South’ at IGHR (Georgia), SLIG (Utah), and TIGR (Texas), does Webinars for Legacy Family Tree Webinars and has worked on several genealogical television series including Follow Your Past, African American Lives 2, Who Do You Think You Are? and UnXplained Events, and podcasts, including Twice Removed and Blast From My Past.
Mark has published in the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (APGQ), National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ), FGS’ FORUM. The Longhunter (So. Ky. Genealogical Society), Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society Quarterly, North Carolina Genealogical Quarterly, and other society publications. He is a Past President of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), and Past President of the Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Mark is a Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Society and was awarded the Graham T. Smallwood award and Lifetime Membership award by the Association of Professional Genealogists.
Website: www.kytnresearch.com
Blog: Keeping the Story Alive: http://keepingthestoryalive.blogspot.com/
Kentucky/Tennessee Stories: http://kytnstories.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @JLowe615
Instagram: @kytnresearch
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JLoweGenealogy/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kytnresearch
Questions: Email [email protected]
J. Mark Lowe describes himself as “born to be curious.” He is a professional genealogist, author, and lecturer who specializes in original records and manuscripts throughout the South. Mark enjoys opportunities to share what he has learned over the years through YouTube, Webinars, and Institutes.
He served as the Course Coordinator for ‘Research in the South’ at IGHR (Georgia), SLIG (Utah), and TIGR (Texas), does Webinars for Legacy Family Tree Webinars and has worked on several genealogical television series including Follow Your Past, African American Lives 2, Who Do You Think You Are? and UnXplained Events, and podcasts, including Twice Removed and Blast From My Past.
Mark has published in the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (APGQ), National Genealogical Society Quarterly (NGSQ), FGS’ FORUM. The Longhunter (So. Ky. Genealogical Society), Middle Tennessee Genealogical Society Quarterly, North Carolina Genealogical Quarterly, and other society publications. He is a Past President of the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), and Past President of the Southern Kentucky Genealogical Society Mark is a Fellow of the Utah Genealogical Society and was awarded the Graham T. Smallwood award and Lifetime Membership award by the Association of Professional Genealogists.
Website: www.kytnresearch.com
Blog: Keeping the Story Alive: http://keepingthestoryalive.blogspot.com/
Kentucky/Tennessee Stories: http://kytnstories.blogspot.com/
Twitter: @JLowe615
Instagram: @kytnresearch
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JLoweGenealogy/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kytnresearch
Questions: Email [email protected]