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BanyanDNA
5/13/2025
Learn how to use BanyanDNA to build, visualize and analyze complex genealogies.
Presented by Margaret Press, PhD, is one of BanyanDNA's co-founders and product managers. She helps define the requirements and performs validation and testing.
Margaret is also the co-founder of the DNA Doe Project, a non-profit corporation dedicated to identifying human remains through Investigative Genetic Genealogy. Additionally, she serves on the Investigative Genetic Genealogy Accreditation Board, and is a founding member of the DNA Justice Foundation. She holds a doctorate in linguistics, is retired from the software industry, and is a former mystery writer and private pilot.
Location: Zoom
5/13/2025
Learn how to use BanyanDNA to build, visualize and analyze complex genealogies.
Presented by Margaret Press, PhD, is one of BanyanDNA's co-founders and product managers. She helps define the requirements and performs validation and testing.
Margaret is also the co-founder of the DNA Doe Project, a non-profit corporation dedicated to identifying human remains through Investigative Genetic Genealogy. Additionally, she serves on the Investigative Genetic Genealogy Accreditation Board, and is a founding member of the DNA Justice Foundation. She holds a doctorate in linguistics, is retired from the software industry, and is a former mystery writer and private pilot.
Location: Zoom
May 2025 RGS General Meeting, 2025 Elections, and Poster Session
5/20/2025
May 2025 RGS General Meeting, 2025 Elections, and Poster Session
The May 2025 RGS General Meeting Short Program will be a hybrid meeting. We will feature Autumn Haag, Interim Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at the University of Rochester.
May Elections will be held, as well as our 2nd Annual Poster Session.
Location: Nazareth University
Otto A. Shults Community Center
Rochester, NY 14618
5/20/2025
May 2025 RGS General Meeting, 2025 Elections, and Poster Session
The May 2025 RGS General Meeting Short Program will be a hybrid meeting. We will feature Autumn Haag, Interim Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation at the University of Rochester.
May Elections will be held, as well as our 2nd Annual Poster Session.
Location: Nazareth University
Otto A. Shults Community Center
Rochester, NY 14618
DNA Help Session
5/21/2025
Location: Irondequoit Public Library
1290 Titus Ave
Rochester, NY 14617
Registration ends on 5/19/2025
5/21/2025
Location: Irondequoit Public Library
1290 Titus Ave
Rochester, NY 14617
Registration ends on 5/19/2025
May 2025 Board Meeting
5/27/2025
May 2025 Board Meeting
To be held In-Person and Live Virtual (via Zoom). Zoom link will be found with the confirmed event registration for the May 2025 Board Meeting.
Please submit board agenda items and board and activity chair reports to RGS Recording Secretary, Andrew Paris @ Secretary@nyrgs.org by Tuesday, 13 May 2025.
Live Virtual via Zoom:
Meeting ID
891 0286 0714
Security Passcode
600652
Registration Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sd-ugqDstG9BVs5BpFeSjQOkS6oqBIqp2
5/27/2025
May 2025 Board Meeting
To be held In-Person and Live Virtual (via Zoom). Zoom link will be found with the confirmed event registration for the May 2025 Board Meeting.
Please submit board agenda items and board and activity chair reports to RGS Recording Secretary, Andrew Paris @ Secretary@nyrgs.org by Tuesday, 13 May 2025.
Live Virtual via Zoom:
Meeting ID
891 0286 0714
Security Passcode
600652
Registration Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sd-ugqDstG9BVs5BpFeSjQOkS6oqBIqp2
TIG Meeting - How to Develop Critical Online Newspaper Research Skills with Kenneth R. Marks, Founder of The Ancestor Hunt website
6/10/2025
This webinar is intended to build newspaper research skills for genealogy and history
researchers. Online newspaper research can be a frustrating endeavor for several
reasons. The goal is for the audience to understand why it can be difficult and to learn
some skills that will drastically improve search results. There are four sections in the
webinar:
Why search old newspapers?
The challenges in searching old newspapers online
7 critical skills and techniques to successfully search newspapers online
A demonstration of these skills and techniques
6/10/2025
This webinar is intended to build newspaper research skills for genealogy and history
researchers. Online newspaper research can be a frustrating endeavor for several
reasons. The goal is for the audience to understand why it can be difficult and to learn
some skills that will drastically improve search results. There are four sections in the
webinar:
Why search old newspapers?
The challenges in searching old newspapers online
7 critical skills and techniques to successfully search newspapers online
A demonstration of these skills and techniques