Received 12 Hours of Family tree Persevering with Training in 2022? « Louis Kessler’s Behold Weblog Receive US

I’ve been a member of the Affiliation of Skilled Genealogists (APG) for 10 years now, since 2013. I don’t take shoppers however use my membership so as to add a bit extra credence to my family tree actions, software program improvement and talking engagements.

{Many professional} organizations in quite a lot of fields require plenty of hours of Persevering with Training. That is some type of studying so as to preserve up-to-date with the brand new tendencies in your area, or simply to brush up on the knowledge you already know however have “forgotten” as a result of it’s been so lengthy because you discovered or used it.

So far, I don’t bear in mind the APG ever enforced a Persevering with Training requirement. To my shock, I acquired an e mail a number of days in the past from them:

Additionally they included a hyperlink to the web kind to self-report as properly to a web page with Continuing Education FAQ.

My Hours

In order that received me questioning. What number of hours did I spend in 2022 on what can be thought of Family tree Persevering with Training? Time to whole issues up:

Webinars – Complete 17 hours:

• Jan 9 – 1 hour – Discovering Your Jewish Paperwork within the Ukrainian Archives – Alex Krakovsky
• Feb 27 – 1 hour – Navigating Your Jewish DNA Outcomes – Adina Newman
• Mar 3 – 1 hour – MyHeritage New Releases: Timeline & FamilySearch  Syncing – Daniel Horowitz
• Mar 17 – 1 hour – All About GEDCOM – Lisa Louise Cooke
• Apr 7 – 1 hour – What’s New in Jewish Family tree 2022 – Ellen Kowitt
• Apr 7 – 1 hour – Confirming Sensible Matches and File Matches at MyHeritage – Moshe Etlis
• Could 4 – 1 hour – Rapidly Manage Your DNA Matches with the Leeds Methodology – Dana Leeds
• Could 15 – 1 hour – Jewish Family tree Fb Teams – A Panel Dialogue – MN Jewish Gen Society
• Could 22 – 1 hour – 5 Issues to Know About Metadata – Maureen Taylor & Everlasting.org
• Jun 1 – 1 hour – Suggestions and Methods for Navigating JewishGen
• Jul 6 – 1 hour – What’s New at DNAPainter – Jonny Perl
• Jul 12 – 1 hour – Exploring Your Ethnicities on MyHeritage – Gal Zrihen
• Sep 2 – 1 hour – Altering Locations, Altering Borders, Overcoming geographic challenges – Dave Obee
• Sep 12 – 1 hour – Household Tree Maker – Mark Olsen
• Sep 15 – 1 hour – Planning and Preserving Your Digital Legacy – Maureen Taylor & Everlasting.org
• Dec 9 – 1 hour – Fashionable Tech Instruments for Your Analysis Yay or Nay? – Cyndi Ingle
• Dec 14 – 1 hour – DNA and Endogamy: Making Sense When Your Matches Don’t Make Sense – Adina Newman

Programs / Workshops (On-line) – Complete 6 hours:

• Feb 23 – 1.5 hour – The best way to Learn and Interpret Russian Delivery-Marriage-Dying Data – JGS Toronto
• Apr 3 – 4.5 hours – Jewish Roots in Ukraine: Context and Connection – NYG&B

Conferences (On-line) – Complete 15 hours:

1. Mar 3 to five – 5 hours – RootsTech 2022

• Household Search GEDCOM 7 (3 talks) – Gordon Clarke
• Visible Phasing (5 talks) – Tanner Blair Tolman
• DNA Painter Half 3: The Inferred Phase Generator – Tanner Blair Tolman
• The best way to Know if a Matching DNA Phase is Maternal or Paternal – Nichole Dyer
• Piling on the chromosomes – Debbie Kennett
• Greatest Foot Ahead – Household Photographs (2 talks) – Nancy Lora Desmond and Maureen Taylor
• What’s New/Approaching FamilySearch.org (3 talks) – Ron Tanner
• What Can I Do With Ancestral DNA (3 talks) – Roberta Estes
• Overview of HAPI-DNA.org – Amy Williams
• Family tree Youtubers Stay Panel

• Keynote – Johnny Perl
• Rewriting Historical past with DNA: How DNA Testing Impacts Our Determine – Diahan Southard
• When Sufficient is Sufficient – Judy G Russell
• The Fundamentals of Unknown Parentage Searches with DNA – Kitty Munson Cooper

• Being a Good Family tree Associate – Melanie McComb
• Discovering Ancestors With out Moving into Circles – Amy Johnson Crow
• The Puzzle of Family tree – AJ Jacobs
• The Way forward for Family tree Panel
• Web Archive – A Genealogist’s Gold Mine – Thomas MacEntee
• Getting Began with Borland Genetics – Kevin Borland

So in abstract, throughout 2022, I watched 17 hours of instructional webinars, took a course and workshop totalling 6 hours, and spent 15 hours at 3 on-line conferences.

That’s 38 hours in whole.

So now it’s time for me to self-report my hours.

How a lot time did you spend in 2022 enhancing your family tree data?