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  • Pat Richley-Erickson
  • <p>DearMYRTLE</p>

  • South Jordan, Utah
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  • 84095
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  • https://blog.dearmyrtle.com
  • https://www.youtube.com/c/DearmyrtlePage

  • DearMYRTLE is the nom de plume of Pat Richley-Erickson, who serves as president of the APG Chapter in Second Life (virtual), is the author of the award-winning DearMYRTLE Genealogy Blog where the focus is beginning genealogy topics. DearMYRTLE hosts several weekly webinars including Mondays with Myrt and Wacky Wednesday. She and Cousin Russ have moderated intensive study groups including Beginning Genealogy, ESM’s QuickLessons,  Gen-Doc Mastering Genealogical Documentation, Mastering Genealogical Proof, The Written Conclusion, and Genealogy and the Law. DearMYRTLE’s YouTube Channel has over 1,000 archived webinars.

     

    Most recently, Myrt and Cousin Russ managed the switch from in-person to virtual 2020 GRIP (Genealogical Research Institute of Pennsylvania) training and assisting Zoom Meeting hosts for all 15 courses.

     

    DearMYRTLE and Cousin Russ have presented five computer labs at RootsTech 2011- 2013, and 2017. Myrt is a speaker at regional and national conferences including several livestreamed from RootsTech. She has served as an official RootsTech blogger and ambassador (2011-2018). Myrt serves the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy’s virtual courses as SLIG Virtual Tech since the first Virtual Advanced Evidence Analysis Practicum to present. Most recently, Myrt and Cousin Russ managed the switch from in-person to virtual 2020 GRIP (Genealogical Research Institute of Pennsylvania) training and assisting Zoom Meeting hosts for all 15 courses.

    DearMYRTLE is a co-founder of the Genea-Quilters group on Facebook, and founder of GeneaWebinars, a centralized calendar and blog for all known genealogy webinar hosts and virtual presenters. She serves as co-admin for the 32,000 member The Organized Genealogist Facebook Group together with her hangout co-host, her real-life Cousin Russ Worthington.

    Find out more at https://blog.DearMYRTLE.com
    (Yup! She’s a dot com!)
  • DearMYRTLE's  New 21st  Century Genealogy Researchers' Strategy Series includes:
    • Ancestry.com Trees Can Jumpstart Your Family History Research 
    • Blogging for Beginners
    • More Blogging for Beginners
    • Dropbox for Genealogists: Syncing files rather than backing them up
    • Facebook - Bigger than Google?
    • Google Alerts and setting up your Google Home Page
    • Google Books
    • GMail and Multiple Calendars
    • 5 Ways to Share Ancestral Stories
    • Google Drive: Your Office in the Cloud

    Recent successful presentations appropriate for beginning to intermediate genealogy researchers include:

    • 7 HABITS of Highly Effective Genealogists very popular!
    • TALE OF TWO CITIES: Immigration and Naturalization Overview
    • Accessing Lineage Society Apps  (Emphasis on DAR and DUV)
    • Clothesline Approach to Document Evaluation
    • Composing Effective Queries
    • Determining What to Search Next
    • Easy Digital Newsletters 
    • FamilySearch Indexing
    • Finally Get Organized! 
    • FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: Internet Research for Patient Genealogists 
    • Getting from a Book or CD to the Original Document 
    • LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE: Land Records for Genealogists
    • Major Migration Patterns of Germans to America
    • Medical Practices of the US Revolutionary and Civil Wars
    • MOBY DICK: Our Ancestors on the High Seas
    • MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON: Research strategies in the National Capital Area
    • PODCASTS: Learn While Jogging
    • PODCASTS: Creating & Listening
    • Preparing for a trip to Salt Lake
    • ROMEO & JULIET: Marriage Practices & Records
    • The Clothesline Approach to Document Analysis
    • THE TIME MACHINE: Offbeat Resources for Family Historians
    • THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT: 3 Months to Better Organization 
    • Tracing American Revolutionary War Ancestors
    • Union Civil War Pension Files
    • WAR & PEACE: US Military Records 
    • Where to Look Next 
    • WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS: Finding Female Ancestors

  • I can provide *live* voice-to-text closed captioning, required for virtual speaking in the 21 Century.

  • Mondays with Myrt (most Mondays each month)

    WACKY Wednesday, where we take one topic and explore it in more detail.

    Virtual Client Meetings Using ZOOM Technology for the Virtual Chapter, Association of Professional Genealogists. https://youtu.be/CoUXxpk6zB0 

    Google Drive: An Office in the Cloud
    https://familytreewebinars.com/download.php?webinar_id=923

    Focused Research VS Information Overload
    https://familytreewebinars.com/download.php?webinar_id=1042

     

     
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