Name: Organize Your Genealogy Workshop
Start: 2025-07-19T11:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-07-19T15:30:00-04:00
Location: Main Library - Community Learning Center

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Organize Your Genealogy Workshop

with Laura Street Chaplin

2025-07-19 11:00:00 2025-07-19 15:30:00 America/New_York Organize Your Genealogy Workshop Guest speaker Laura Street Chaplin will share three presentations on organizing your family history research, including strategies for paper and digital files, plus a process for tackling the project! Main Library - Community Learning Center - Beutter-Kernan Hall

Saturday, July 19
11:00am - 3:30pm

Add to Calendar 2025-07-19 11:00:00 2025-07-19 15:30:00 America/New_York Organize Your Genealogy Workshop Guest speaker Laura Street Chaplin will share three presentations on organizing your family history research, including strategies for paper and digital files, plus a process for tackling the project! Main Library - Community Learning Center - Beutter-Kernan Hall

Main Library - Community Learning Center

Beutter-Kernan Hall

Guest speaker Laura Street Chaplin will share three presentations on organizing your family history research, including strategies for paper and digital files, plus a process for tackling the project!

Genealogist Laura Street Chaplin will provide a full day workshop on organization for genealogists. Laura will start the day by sharing ideas for creating a paper-based filing system that works with "Organizing Your Chaos". Then attendees will break for lunch on your own, either bring your lunch or visit a downtown restaurant. After lunch, Laura will share tips and tricks for designing an electronic filing system. The day will close with talking about a workflow to tackle your organizational project, depending on where you're starting and what your goals are.

Schedule:
11:00am-12:15pm Organizing Your Chaos
12:15-1:30pm Break for Lunch (on your own)
1:30-2:45pm Digital Files
3:00-4:15pm What's Your Mission?

Attendees are welcome to join us for one or more sessions of this free, all-day event!

Event contact: Ellen Anderson, e.anderson@sjcpl.org

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | History & Genealogy |

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