Last Minute Lilly Gets in the British Institute

I am happy to post this announcement at the request of the British Institute organizers:

Don’t Miss Your Opportunity to Study With The Experts! 

If you’re a last-minute Lilly (or Louie), there is still time to register for the few remaining open spots to attend the British Institute in Salt Lake City, 7-11 October 2013.

The International Society for British Genealogy and Family History will accept registrations until Monday, 30 September, for a week of lectures and mentoring by well-known British genealogists Graham Walter, Maggie Loughran and Paul Blake.

The registration fee is $495, and covers five days of instruction with morning lectures and afternoon research opportunities in the Family History Library, including one-on-one mentoring with your instructor.

All courses will be in the Radisson Hotel Downtown, a short walk to the Family History Library. Hotel rooms are still available at the Crystal Inn at $79.00 per night, including breakfast and shuttle bus service to and from the airport, and to the Radisson each day.

Full details and registration at

Using the Cloud for British Family History Research

Graham Walter

Graham Walter combines his IT background with his expansive knowledge of British genealogy resources. This course will provide a guide as to what “The Cloud” is and how we can use it to our advantage in our research.

There are a number of Internet sites that provide some unique datasets for researching British ancestors. We will examine some of these sites and look at the varied search techniques that can be used to find those elusive ancestors hiding in the nooks and crannies of their databases.

The Cloud also provides us with a wealth of tools to enhance the way we collect, share and present our data. We will look at how these services allow us to choose a variety and combination of computing devices that best suits the collecting of our family history on any research trip. The Cloud will allow us to move that data to our other devices seamlessly and without complexity, as well as share it with our families and other researchers. Students in this course must provide their own WiFi-capable laptop computer.

Course Outline:

Monday

·         Introduction/Overview

·         What do we mean when we say "The Cloud?"

·         Notepads/Journals(Evernote/SpringPad/NoteSync/SimpleNote)

·         Website of the Day - findmypast.co.uk

·         Research Journalling with Evernote

Tuesday

·         Cloud File Storage(DropBox/SkyDrive/Google Drive/Amazon Cloud Drive)

·         Cloud Backup (Carbonite/Mozy)

·         Website of the Day - thegenealogist.co.uk

·         Research Data Storage and Family History Programs

Wednesday

·         Office applications in the Cloud(Google Docs/MS Office Web Apps/Zoho Suite)

·         Website of the Day - Ancestry.co.uk

·         Data extraction and manipulation with web

Thursday

·         Task Management (Remember the Milk/Astrid/Toodledo)

·         Websites of the Day - Online Newspapers britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk,

·                     Welsh Newspapers Online

·         Using Mobile devices in Research

Friday

·         Collaboration in the Cloud

·         Photo Storage and Sharing(Flickr/1000 Memories/Picasa)

·         Cloud Mapping the Ancestors(Google Maps/Bing Maps)

Sources For Tracing Pre-mid-nineteenth

Century English Ancestors

Maggie Loughran and Paul Blake

This course will concentrate on tracing pre-mid-nineteenth century English ancestors and will be of special interest to those whose ancestors emigrated to North America prior to the

commencement of English civil registration in 1837, or those who have already tracked their ancestors back to the early 1800s.

Paul and Maggie will focus on the actual records themselves, giving you an in-depth understanding of them. For each record category we will be looking at examples of the original documents and guide you through how to interpret, locate and, lastly, how to access them using the Internet and any other available resources.

Record Categories

Locating, interpreting, and accessing pre-1858 English probate records

From the 13th century until the civil probate system was introduced in 1858, probate (the ratification of a will) was controlled by the church. Wills were recorded in the

ecclesiastical archives as were most matters to do with death, with over 300 church courts functioning at one time or another. These jurisdictions frequently overlapped each other and

boundaries may have changed from time to time making the use of early wills and other probate records challenging to say the least. This session will take you through the process of

discovering if your ancestor left a will and where to find it plus any other associated probate records including administrations, inventories and accounts.

plus much more…see the website for complete details

www.isbgfh.org