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  • Stewart Traiman

  • Six Generations Genealogy
  • stewart@sixgen.org

  • Alameda
  • CA

  • 94501
  • United States
  • (510) 390-3576
  • (GMT -8:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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  • http://sixgen.org/
  • http://sixgen.org/the-six-generations-blog/

  • Genealogy has been an obsession of mine for 30 years and I have a wide breadth of genealogical source knowledge, both online and off-line.

    I began building my own family history by interviewing parents, grandparents and other relations about my Nicaraguan roots as a teenager. When I married I took on the new adventure of researching my husband’s Ukrainian and Polish Jewish immigrant ancestors. I’ve researched both of my children’s biological origins back to the colonial United States and Western Europe. I have researched U.S., Canadian and Irish families for friends and clients.

    In January 2014, I began volunteering with the California Genealogical Society as the editor and publisher of a monthly electronic newsletter and continue in that role today. I joined the Board of Directors in 2015 and serve as the Recording Secretary. My genealogy sleuthing skills grow with everyday practice, seminars and attending national conferences. I am a member of the National Genealogical Society and Association of Professional Genealogists.

    Genealogy has been my interest for decades and I am now a professional genealogist. In my previous lives, I have been an Internal Medicine physician and a Health Information Technology analyst and manager. See my LinkedIn Profile for more details.

  • LGBTQ Genealogy

    This two-hour presentation focuses on clues in the genealogical records to find ancestors that may have been Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Queer. Stewart tells stories of many LGBTQ ancestors in the historical context of LGBTQ rights. Clues to ancestors can be found in photographs, census, newspapers, obituaries, cemeteries, military records, marriage records and LGBTQ Archive around the world. The presentation is both factual and emotional in portraying LGBTQ people in the past centuries.

    The second part of the presentation focuses on current genealogical software and the difficulty faced by LGBTQ and adoptive family. Sometimes the software just doesn’t fit. Stewart makes recommendations on how software needs to evolve for today’s families.

    Excel for Genealogist

    Stewart loves spreadsheets! He uses spreadsheets at work every day as an IT Manager. He is an expert in Microsoft Excel using it in genealogy very frequently. Laying out all the data in Excel can help researchers see gaps in knowledge or correlations between data points. Breakthroughs can easily happen by visualizing data in spreadsheets.  Stewart shows many examples of his use of spreadsheets to track newspaper clippings, a vital records catalog, tracking ancestor addresses over time, and tracking whole families over many census. Stewart trains users to use Excel filter, sorting, color coding, calculations and many other functions.

    Spreadsheets are fun!
    • 22 Jun 2019 – Excel for Genealogists at the California Genealogical Society.
    • 28 Jun 2019 – LGBTQ Genealogy at the California State Library; Sutro Library.
    • 1 Aug 2019 – LGBTQ Genealogy at the California Genealogical Society.
    • 21 Sep 2019 – Excel for Genealogists at the Oakland Family Search Library.
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