Genealogy Presentation History

Nick Cimino

AncestorPuzzles.com

Saturday, January 7, 2017 Southern California Genealogical Society Webinar Series

• "Chain Migration from Ulster and One Name Studies" -Due to the scarcity of Irish records an excellent genealogical approach is to widen the focus from a particular pedigree to all occurrences of a surname in your Irish locality whether it be a townland, a county or a region like Ulster. 

October 28-30, 2016  Texas State Genealogical Society Annual Meeting

• "Anatomy of a Slave Narrative" -A case study was presented demonstrating how to use information provided in a slave narrative to open the door to genealogical records that tell the rest of the story using the narrative of Agatha Babino from Beaumont, Texas.
• "Reconstructing the 1870 Neighborhood" -The 1870 census was the first in American history to enumerate African Americans.  A complete examination of the community depicted in the 1870 census is crucial to surmounting the brick wall that faces African Americans researching slave ancestors.  Study of the 1870 census is also vitally important to a new historical understanding of the complex relationships of ancestors, both black and white in the Reconstruction period.

Saturday, October 1, 2016  George Memorial Library- Annual Genealogy Symposium was an all day presentation covering four topics:

• “Planning a Research Trip to Ireland” -covered online resources to connect with Irish cousins then virtually visit Ireland and then research in person at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and visit ancestral home places.
• “Researching Immigrant Ancestors” -Topics include how to find the hometown of immigrant ancestors and tips for searching passenger lists and one name studies. 
• “Drilling Deeper in the Lone Star State” -Techniques for maximizing results in Texas online and archival resources.
• “Heirloom Research and Preservation” - Methods to locate and preserve heirlooms in your family and techniques to find heirlooms in estate sales and antique stores and  reunite them with descendants.

Tuesday, July 26, 2016  Austin Genealogical Society 

• "19th Century Immigration"  

Thursday, April 14, 2016 , Bear Creek Genealogical Society 

• Reuniting Heirlooms with Descendants

Saturday, April 9, 2016 Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Houston

• Researching African American Family History in Archives, Libraries and Newspapers

2014-2015  Friendswood Public Library and Bay Area Genealogical Society (BAGS)

• Offered a series of genealogical education programs seen in the following list of events.  Mr. Cimino researched and delivered all of the following presentations

Tuesday, April 1, 2014: UK & Ireland Special Interest Group( SIG) - Census records
Tuesday, May 6, 2014: UK & Ireland SIG- Civil Vital Records
Tuesday, June 3, 2014: UK & Ireland SIG- Church/Parish records
Thursday August 7, 2014: African American Genealogy SIG
Thursday, September 4, 2014: African American Genealogy SIG
Saturday, March 21, 2015: German SIG- Finding German hometown of emigrant ancestor
Saturday, April 18, 2015:  German SIG- Finding and researching German church & civil records
Saturday, May 16, 2015: German SIG-How to read German genealogy records
Saturday, May 30, 2015: An overview of FamilySearch.org

• Presented the following sessions to the BAGS General Meetings 

Friday, February 28, 2014: Research techniques for the British Isles
Friday, June 27, 2014: Introduction to African-American Genealogy Research
Friday, February 27, 2015: ACHTUNG-Researching  Your German Speaking Ancestors

• Saturday, April 25, 2015:  Two sessions at the Houston Family Search Genealogy Conference at Summerwood Family History Center (FHC)– Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints(LDS), 14350 North Sam Houston Parkway East, Houston, TX; First session was Italian Research- Good Records and Easy to Translate; Second session was Citing and Organizing Sources: Methods and techniques to keep track of where you found all those great records
• Saturday, June 20, 2015: Irish and Scottish Genealogy for Houston Family Genealogy Day; two one hour sessions sponsored by the Baring Drive Family History Center of LDS Church.
• Friday, July 31, 2015: Documenting our Immigrant Ancestors,  Huntsville Public Library, Huntsville, Texas
• Saturday, October 17, 2015: Getting Started on Ancestry.com, BAGS Mentoring Session
• Saturday, February 27, 2016: Three sessions at the Houston Family Search Genealogy Conference at Summerwood FHC – LDS Church; Immigration presentation offered twice plus German Research