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From: Sharon Sergeant <>
Subject: [Bos-St] NY workshop
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 18:07:42 -0800 (PST)

17 Nov. Genealogy and the Internet: An All-Day Workshop For
Genealogists
and Family Historians. New York Genealogical & Biographical Society.
(212)
755-8532. http://www.nygbs.org

Schedule
9:00 AM 9:30 AMRegistration

9:30 AM 9:45 AMWelcome: Harry Macy, Jr., Internet Overview: Leslie
Corn

9:45 AM 10:45 AM Credible Clues from the Incredible Internet:
Combining
World Wide Web and Repository Research to Solve Genealogical Mysteries.
Presenter: Leslie Corn 19th- and 20th-century case studies demonstrate
ways to creatively combine Internet, archive, and library research to
advance successful and well-documented family histories. Among the
highlights are tips for using online catalogs and preparing for
repository
visits; reliable Internet resources for in-depth genealogical and
social
history research; advanced methods for manipulating data in digitized
indexes and text, including how to transform any digitized city
directory
into a reverse directory; global searches for ancestors and living
relatives when localities aren't known; using web sites search boxes
to
go beyond simple name searches to plot neighborhoods and create
grantor/grantee indexes.

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Avoiding Tangles in the Worldwide Web.
Presenter: John Konvalinka Finding useful genealogical information on
the
Internet has become increasingly difficult and frustrating because of
the
vast amount of clutter on the World Wide Web. This session will focus
on
how to use search tools to eliminate results that are not useful to
your
research. How search engines work and why different search engines
produce
different results will be explored. Several search engines will be
explained in detail including:
* Genealogically specific ones (e.g. GenSource, GenSearcher, GenDoor)
* Old favorites (e.g. AltaVista, HotBot, WebCrawler, Excite, GoTo)
* Newer favorites (e.g. Google, Dogpile, Northern Light, Mamma,
All The Web)
* State-of-the-art meta search engines (e.g. MetaFind, Copernic 2001
Pro, Karnak.)

Several case situations will be constructed using basic and advanced
(Boolean, etc.) search techniques and the results obtained from various
search engines. How to access the "Deep or Invisible Web, which
ordinary
search engines cannot reach, will also be demonstrated.

12:00 PM 2:30 PM Lunch/ Guided Internet Access/ NYG&B Library Tours
Guided Internet Access
Live, hands-on tours of the Internet, led by our presenters and NYG&B
staff
and volunteer experts in the Technology Center and Ballroom. Please
sign
up
for the small-group sessions that include personal guidance or join us
in
the Ballroom for the larger group tour. Note: If our broadband Internet
service experiences an outage and is unavailable for guided Internet
access, we will reschedule this part of the program.

NYG&B Library Tours
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society Library staff will
show
you the Librarys collection and its finding aids. Ask about your
specific
areas of interest.

2:30 PM 3:30 PM Can I Read It on the Web? Full-text Sources for
Genealogical Research on the Internet.
Presenter: Anne Kipp Tenenbaum Toohey
This presentation will focus on reliable Internet sources that contain
full-text genealogical resources such as primary sources (vital
records,
land records, etc.), compiled family histories, and local histories of
states, counties, and towns. Web sites with large digital collections
of
primary and secondary sources for genealogical and historical research,
such as American Memory (Library of Congress) and Making of America
(Cornell University and University of Michigan), will be considered.
Some
consideration will also be given to criteria for judging the
completeness
and reliability of web sites.

3:45 PM 4:15 PM Library of Congress Online: A Live Guided Tour.
Presenter: Anne Kipp Tenenbaum Toohey
Library of Congress Reference Librarian Anne Kipp Tenenbaum Toohey will
demonstrate, using a live Internet connection, ways to use our national
librarys online catalog and American Memory web site.

4:30 PM 5:30 PM Ask-the-Experts Panel.
All of our presenters will address your questions about genealogical
and
social history research on the Internet.



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