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F. Warren Bittner, is a genealogical researcher and lecturer, with thirty years of research experience. He holds a Master of Science degree in history from Utah State University, and a Bachelors of Science degree in Business from Brigham Young University. His master's thesis looked at the social factors affecting illegitimacy in nineteenth-century Bavaria. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and in 1989-1990 he studied Chinese at a graduate level at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies in Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

He is the owner of Ancestors Lost and Found, a small genealogical research firm. For six years he was the German Collection Manager for the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, where he coordinated contracts to microfilm and index records at 102 archives in seven countries and where he planned the German book acquisitions and internet publications. Before that he worked for four years in the extraction unit of the Family History Library, where he was coordinator of third-party indexing projects and where he developed and trained volunteers in Spanish indexing projects. He has also worked as a Reference Consultant at the Family History Library on both the U.S. and International reference counters. He has done research in more than fifty German archives and in more than forty U.S. archives and record repositories.

In 2010 he was assistant director of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and he is a former member of the board of directors for Utah Genealogical Association. He made several appearances on the PBS television series, Ancestors 2. He is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, the National Genealogical Society, Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society, and the Palatines to America, Colorado Chapter, and the Sacrament German Society. He is married to Nancy Ruth Christensen and is the father of three children.

• First place winner of National Genealogical Society 2012 Family History Writing Contest, "Without Land, Occupation, Rights, or Marriage Privilege: The Büttner Family from Germany to America".
• Chuck Knutsen Memorial Lecture. (Scheduled August 2012.) Federation of Genealogical Societies Annual Conference: Indians, Squatter, and Soldiers in the'Old Southwest'. Birmingham, Alabama.
• Birdie Monk Holsclaw Memorial Lecture (Scheduled May 2013.) National Genealogical Society, Conference in the States, Building New Bridges, Las Vegas, Nevada.

• Research Methodology
• German Genealogical Research
• Gothic German Script
• Big City Research
• Federal Land Research
• Writing Your Family History
• German Immigrant Research
• Beginning Research

• Speaker provides PowerPoint presentations.
• Speaker is prepared to provide own projector.
• Speaker supplies camera-ready handouts.
• Audio/video taping negotiable.
• Will accept international, national, provincial, state and regional invitations.
• Speaker requires screen, table, extension cord, microphone, and a captivating audience.
• Speaker expects honorarium, travel fees (economy class), lodging, plus airport pick-up and drop-off.
• No home billeting, please
• Provides presentations at all levels: basic, intermediate and advanced.
• Will develop new lectures upon request.
• Contact directly for current speaker fees.
• All-day workshops available.
• Expect a speaker contract.

• National Genealogical Society Convention (2012, 2011, 2004).
• Federation of Genealogical Societies Annual Conference (2012).
• Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (2012, 2011, 2010, 2006).
• Southern California Genealogy Jamboree (2012, 2011).
• Ohio Genealogical Society Conference (2012).
• Brigham Young University, Conference on Family History and Genealogy (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2004, 2002).
• Family History Library, Patron Classas (2008, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001).
• Palatines to America—German Genealogy Society, National Convention, Keynote Speaker (2012).
• Sacramento German Genealogy Society, Keynote Speaker (2012), Monthly Meeting (2011, 2010).
• Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society, Keynote Speaker (2012).
• Association of Professional Genealogists, Utah Chapter (2012, 2008).
• Fairfax Genealogical Society, Spring Conference and Monthly Meeting. (2011).
• German Interest Group, Keynote Speaker (Whitewater, Wisconsin: 2009).
• Utah Genealogical Society Conference (2005, 2003).
• Spokane Family History Fair (2006, 2005).
• Farmington, Utah Family History Center Lecture Series (2008, 2007, 2004).
• Annual Meeting of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (San Diego, California: 2004).