Agenda:
- 9:30 am - set up program and attendees check in
- 10:00 - 11:00 am - Finding German Records Using Family Search
- 11:00 - 11:15 - break
- 11:15 - 12:15 Useful tools for those with German ancestors
- 12:15 - 1:15 lunch (on your own)
- 1:15 - 1:30 Annual COPalAm Membership Meeting
- 1:30 - 2:30 Finding German Church Records on Archion
- 2:30 - 2:45 break
- 2:45 - 3:45 Naturalization Records – A Clue to the Past
- 3:45 - 4:00 - wrap up, door prizes, and questions
Speaker's Bio
Dana received her BA in Math Education to teach high school mathematics. She began teaching beginning genealogy classes in 1996 before graduating from college. She volunteered at the Warren County Genealogical Society (WCGS) and created their website. She served as the 1st Vice President of the WCGS from 2005 to 2007, President from 2007 until the end of 2013, and again as the 1st Vice President from 2017-2018. She was the WCGS webmaster from its creation until the end of 2013 and has taught the WCGS summer workshops since 2005. In the spring of 2023, she agreed to serve as Vice-President for her local U.S.D. War of 1812 lineage society chapter.
She has lectured on genealogy topics throughout Ohio since 2002 and has been a presenter many times at the OGS annual conference, FGS in 2013 & 2020, NGS in 2018, 2020-2021, 2023, and RootsTech in 2020-2024. In 2009, she became a board-certified genealogist (CG). She also became a certified genealogy lecturer (CGL) in 2019. She taught genealogy and technology classes for Sinclair Community College at their Courseview Campus in Mason, Ohio. She has been the co-chair for the 2013 and 2016 Ohio Genealogical Society annual conferences and has been the program coordinator for the annual Family History Jamboree held in Centerville, Ohio from 2016 to 2022.
She belongs to the following organizations: NGS, OGS, GSG, WCGS and many genealogical societies all over the country. She is a member of NSDAR, Colonial Dames, Martin Heiner Family Organization where she is one of the webmasters and their primary researcher.
She is currently teaching herself German to help her read, understand, and index the parish church records for some of the towns in Thüringen, German where the Heiner and Dietzel families originate. She works for Eagle Investigative Services for military repatriation work for the US Army Past Conflict Repatriations Branch and the General Society for Mayflower Descendants to work on updating their Silver Book series. She created a beginning genealogy webinar course to help researchers learn how to effectively use the most popular genealogy websites - https://eistrainingacademy.thinkific.com/pages/genealogy.
Her awards include: 2016 OGS Key Player; 2012 OGS outstanding chapter officer; the Tecumseh Book Award in 2010 and another in 2016; and the Salmon P. Chase Book Award in 2008 and 2022 for books she co-authored. The WCGS website she created won best website five times of the six times she applied at the OGS annual conference (2007-2009, 2011-2012). While she was President, WCGS won best chapter at the OGS conference five times of the six times she applied (2007-2009, and 2011-2012). http://www.treasuredlineage.com/.