Directory of Members

Annette Burke Lyttle owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She speaks on a variety of genealogical topics at the national, state, and local levels and loves helping people uncover and share their family stories. She is coordinator of the Fall Virtual Intermediate Foundations course for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Her articles have been published in NGS Magazine, FGS Forum, and the APG Quarterly, among others. Annette is president of the Association of Professional Genealogists and editor of The Florida Genealogist.

Research methods and records, Quakers, Midwestern research, migration, using social history to help tell ancestors' stories, sharing our family stories

For a complete list of presentations, see the attached document.

Research Methods

• Genealogical Proof for the Everyday Genealogist
• Timelines: A Path to Your Next Research Steps
• How Research Plans Can Up Your Genealogical Game
• Prospecting for Family History in Unexpected Places

Reconstructing Our Family Stories

• Chasing Uncle William Through the Wilds of Cyberspace
• Reconstructing the Lives of Our Farming Ancestors
• What is Social History and Why Should a Genealogist Care?
• How Advertising Brought Our Ancestors to the Midwest
• Blacksmiths and Their Contribution to the Nation's Development
• Vintage Cookbooks as Genealogical Resources

Writing Our Family Stories

• Turn Family History Facts into Stories You Can Share
• How to Blog Your Family Stories the Easy Way

Resources

• Find Your Family History in Free Online Newspapers
• Probate Records: Wills and a Whole Lot More
• Bounty Land: It's Complicated

Migration

• The Marriage of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Opening of the Midwest
• Exodusters: The Exodus of Freedmen to Kansas in the 1870s
• The National Road: America's First Federal Highway

Genealogical Education

• Free Online Genealogical Education
• Your Education Plan for Going Pro

Quakers

• Our Quaker Ancestors: Their History and the Records The Left
• Slavery, Quakers, and the Underground Railroad

Military

• Beyond the Records: Putting Flesh on the Bones of Your Civil War Ancestor
• What Did You Do in the War, Granny? Women in the Army in World War II

Happy to present online! Please contact me if you need a virtual speaker.

Supplies masters for handouts
Happy to develop new lectures if requested

National Genealogical Society Conference 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023

Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference 2019, 2020

New York Family History Conference 2020, 2022

Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, co-coordinator of week-long course on Quaker records, 2020, instructor for Treasures in Federal Records, 2022

Ohio Genealogical Society 2018, 2019, accepted for 2020, which was canceled

Southern California Jamboree 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

New England Regional Genealogical Conference 2019, 2023

North Florida Genealogical Conference 2019, accepted for 2020, which was canceled

International German Gen Partnership Conf 2019

Czechoslovak Gen Soc International Conf 2019

Webinars for Legacy, Minnesota GS, Wisconsin State GS, SC Jamboree Extension, Ontario (Canada) GS, Florida State GS, Georgia GS, Virtual Genealogical Assn, and many other societies

All-day seminars for Houston Genealogical Forum and Kansas Council of Gen Societies, West Florida GS, Florida Chapter Ohio Gen Society, Tallahassee Genealogical Society, Rogue Valley GS, Ozarks GS

Best Practices Study Groups

Find Your Roots through Research workshop

Find Women Ancestors in Newspaper workshop