Meeting Information
| Date: | December 6, 2025 |
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| Presentation: | 09:00 AM Central Time |
| Location: | Zoom |
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Presentation Description:
If you haven’t used the Full-Text Search tools at FamilySearch, you are missing out on records about your ancestors. No longer in the experimental stage, it can be used on many of the record images on FamilySearch, saving researchers many hours of reading through records page by page to find their ancestors' names. These tips will help you determine the best way to search and how to filter the results.
Meeting Schedule: (Central Time)
09:00-09:50 AM - Members Helping Members Pre-meeting
09:50-09:55 AM - Break
09:55-10:00 AM - Society Announcement
10:00-11:15 AM - Presentation and Q&A
Dawn Carlile:
Dawn Carlile is a native Oregonian, having grown up in Eugene and Springfield, OR, and has been involved in genealogy for 30 years, starting when her dad asked if she had ever thought about researching their family history. His mother was orphaned at age 12, and he knew very little about her family. Once she started looking into the family she was hooked. She is a professional genealogist, educator, and lecturer who began teaching classes for the Oregon Genealogical Society in 2008 and then began lecturing at libraries, genealogical societies, and cultural events. She enjoys teaching others how to research as much as she does doing research herself.
Dawn is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, Genealogical Speakers Guild, National Genealogical Society, and several local, state, and regional historical and genealogical societies. She is the current president of the Oregon Genealogical Society. and has attended many courses at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research, the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (now the GRIP Genealogy Institute,) and the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records. She graduated from Bushnell University with a B.A. degree in management.
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Jean Brockway