Riverton FamilySearch Library/Events

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Upcoming Events

Saturday Seminar 

The library offers a free seminar every third Saturday of the month. An opening session is held at 9:00 a.m. featuring a keynote address. Following this session attendees are offered four choices of presentations at both 10:00 and 11:00 a.m.

Saturday, February 16, 2012 / 9:00 a.m. - noon

9:00 a.m.

• Keynote Address - "Baby Steps to Genealogical Maturity" - Robert Raymond
  

10:00 a.m.

• “German Life Events and Their Records" - Tamra Stansfield
  

• "Assembling Complex Evidence" - Warren Bittner
  

• "Your Ancestors in the Newspapers?  Read All About It!" - Ron Ray
  

• "Researching Your Scottish Ancestors" - Raymon Naisbitt
  

11:00 a.m.

• "Using Online Storage in Family History" - Tom Stubben
  

• "Preserving Evidence" - Warren Bittner 

• "Quakers and Their Records" - Lisa Arnold
  

• "Genealogy Apps" - Sue Maxwell
  

Future Seminar Keynote Presenters:

March:  Barry Ewell 

April:  Paul Nauta

May:  Karen Clifford

American Sign Language

The keynote address at each seminar will be interpreted in ASL.

Boy Scout Workshop / Genealogy Merit Badge

Presented by Sean and Keith Wahlquist
No registration is necessary.

The library offers a monthly workshop to assist Boy Scouts with their Genealogy Merit Badge. The workshop is held the second Saturday of each month from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.

Saturday, February 9, 2013 / 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.

Scouts must prepare for the workshop by doing the following:

1) Interview a family member about their life. The interview can be completed by telephone, e-mail or letter and the information learned must be recorded;
2) Complete a four-generation pedigree chart. Make sure this includes information about at least one ancestor who was living in 1930;
3) Complete two family group sheets (one listing your parents and your family, and another listing one of your parents and their parents and siblings); and
4) Bring a blue merit badge card (which can be obtained from the Scoutmaster.)

If these items are completed and brought to the workshop, all other requirements for the merit badge can be finished at the workshop and authorized personnel can certify the completion of the merit badge.

Genealogy Merit Badge Resource Links

Boy Scout Merit Badge in Genealogy - FamilySearch Wiki
Boy Scouts of America Genealogy Merit Badge Workbook - BSA