Month: June 2011

RootsMagic is pleased to be a sponsor of the 42nd Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree to be held June 10-12, 2011 in the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport Hotel, 2500 Hollywood Way, Burbank, California.

If you live in the area, be sure to come by and see us in the exhibit hall or attend one of our classes taught by the RootsMagician himself, Bruce Buzbee.

But if you don’t live near by, we wanted to bring the experience of the Jamboree to you!  Through a special sponsorship provided by RootsMagic, several Jamboree sessions will be available at no cost to genealogists and family historians around the globe.  We’ve had a tremendous response to our own free online classes (webinars) and saw the opportunity to use similar technology to bring the Jamboree experience to people around the world.  This means that you can enjoy presentations from some of the top speakers in the genealogical community for free, right from the comfort of your own home!

Watch Online for Free

All live-streaming sessions will be held on Saturday, June 11, 2011.  They include the following: (Click on the link to read more and to register for the session)

• Lisa Louise Cooke – Google Search Strategies for Genealogists
  8:30 to 9:30 am PDT (See in your time zone)
  
• Curt Witcher, MLS, FUGA, IGSF – Fingerprinting Our Families – Using Ancestral Origins as a Genealogical Research Key
  10:00 to 11:00 am PDT (See in your time zone)
  
• David Lambert – Researching Your Union Civil War Ancestors
  11:30 am to 12:30 pm PDT (See in your time zone)
  
• Kory Meyerink, AG, FUGA – But it Ain’t Really the ORIGINAL Record!
  2:00 to 3:00 pm PDT (See in your time zone)
  
• Kerry Bartels – The Many Facets of the National Archives Website (NARA)
  3:30 to 5:30 pm PDT (See in your time zone)

Registration

To register for an online streaming session, click on a class title from the above list.

If you do happen to live in the Los Angeles area and would like to attend the jamboree in person, more information is available at http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/2011jam-home.htm.

We hope to see you there or online!

Hopefully, you’ve been able to attend one of our free online classes (webinars).  If not, don’t worry- we’ve recorded them and made them available to view or download online.  Still, we’ve had many requests to make the recordings available in a convenient CD format.  Your wish is our command and we’re pleased to present RootsMagic Webinars on CD, Volumes 1 and 2.  Watch them right from the convenience of your own computer where you can follow along and set your own pace.  No internet connection required!  Don’t worry, the downloadable recordings aren’t going anywhere.  The CD’s are just our way of making them available to you in a more convenient, more permanent format.

Each Volume contains:

Volume 1

Volume 2