A special SNEAK PEEK just for our ISGS Blog readers... Here is your first look at just a few of our 2020 Fall Conference Speakers! Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 24th- Registration will be opening SOON!
ISGS Fall Conference Featured Speakers will include:
Lisa Louise Cooke
"Genealogy and the Future of Technology"
Lisa Louise Cooke is the producer and host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast and the weekly YouTube show Elevenses with Lisa (both available at her website www.GenealogyGems.com.) She’s the author of five books including The Genealogist’s Google Toolbox 3rd Edition, and a podcast producer and instructor and columnist for Family Tree Magazine.
LaDonna Garner
"Inheriting Grandma Violet's Genealogy"
"Unique Issues for Researching: African-American
Genealogy Basics"
LaDonna Garner, M.A., is a historic consultant and professional genealogist in Southeast Missouri. She has earned an M.A. in Historic Preservation and focuses on forgotten communities and cemetery preservation. Her current project regards the recording and mapping of minority communities in S.E. Missouri. Garner is passionately merging genealogy and historic preservation for a greater understanding of people, places, and cultural heritage.
Michelle Wilson
"Bio-Parents for Peg and Donna: An Autosomal DNA
Case Study"
Michelle Wilson is a past president of CAGGNI, the Computer-Assisted Genealogy Group of Northern Illinois. She is a co-founder of CAGGNI’s DNA Special Interest Group and began her first autosomal genetic genealogy search angel case in 2009. She is a DAR Registrar. Michelle speaks throughout the Midwest, most frequently on Genetic Genealogy, French Canadians and writing family history books. Her latest project was a two-year study of an early McHenry County settler, resulting in the book Montelona Farm with co-author Rommy Lopat. Wilson holds an MS electrical engineering and computer science and works in the medical device industry. She is currently accepting a limited number of clients in the genealogy space.
Dr. David Joens
Introduction to the Illinois State Archives
David Joens is the Director of the Illinois State Archives, the state agency that is in charge of records management for state and local government. He is a former newspaper reporter and served as a staffer for the Illinois Senate staff for six years. He also worked at the University of Illinois at Springfield for four years and was on the Illinois Secretary of State’s Policy and Programs staff for four years before going to the Archives. A lifelong resident of Illinois, Joens received his doctorate in Illinois History from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
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