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2019 Conf
2019 Conf

Nebraska Speakers

 
Are you a genealogy speaker who is willing to speak in Nebraska? Send an email to NSGSPresident@yahoo.com with your contact information and topics to be added. 
 
Are you a genealogy society in Nebraska who needs a program or speaker? Here you go! (NSGS is offering this as a resource and does not endorse any of these speakers. The speaker sets his/her own fees.) 
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Beth Sparrow, Stromsburg  
Contact bethj1973@yahoo.com  or phone: 402-764-2026
 
Topics: Beginning Genealogy, US GenWeb, Midwest research, Cemetery Research, Genealogy and Social Media, Arkiv Digital (Scandinavian), Homesteading & Plat Maps, Nebraska Newspapers, Beginning DNA, and others upon request
 
Twitter: SparrowBeth73
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GenieBethDeathAndTaxes/
Blog: geniebeth.blogspot.com
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Michelle Setlik, Grand Island
Contact setlik@charter.net or 308-380-4480
 
Topics: Finding Your Roots, Using Family Tree Maker Software, Organizing Electronic Files and Digital Photos, Getting the Family on Board, Getting Social with Family History (social media), It's Not Just About the Charts, and others can be developed and delivered upon request
    
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Kassie Nelson, Bellevue
Contact 
 
Topics Steamboat research, more TBA
 
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Gary Mitch Zabortsky, Fairbury
Contact garyzabo@gmail.com or 402-729-2875
 
Topics: Homesteading, Traveling the Oregon Trail, The Country School as a Student and as a Teacher, Discovering Chronicles and Creating Chronicles, more TBA
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Danni Altman-Newell, Overland Park, Kansas
 
Topics: World War I, Military, Fraternal Organizations, Midwest, Technology topics (software, internet, social media, cloud computing, etc.) and other topics as requested
 
Website: talkingboxgenealogy.com 
Twitter: talkingboxgen
Facebook: www.facebook.com/TalkingBoxGenealogy 
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Shannon Lewis, Omaha area
 
Topics: Cemetery Symbolism, Virtual Cemetery Tours, Past Women Leaders in Omaha, How to Clean a Gravestone, Digging the Cemetery: How to Find Burial Records, Introduction to Genealogy, Googling Your Genealogy and other topics as requested
 
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Marcie Garnett, Omaha area
 
Topics: 
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Gail Blankenau, Lincoln
 
Topics: German, many others
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Pat Ray Hannan, Saunders County
 
Topics: DNA
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Sue Schlichting, Burt county area
 
Topics: Getting Started in Family History, Involving Youth in Family History, Archiving Family Heirlooms, Sharing Your Family History Research, Visiting the Land of Your Ancestors (in person or from your living room!), DNA Basics, What can you learn from a Tombstone? and other topics as requested
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Susie Wickman, via Zoom
 
Topics: Mapping Family History; Military Service and Family History; What a Disaster! (weather-related disasters and family history); Color Commentary, or What the Immigrants Saw
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Christie Johnson, Fremont, Nebraska, Virtual
Phone: (661) 993-8291
 
Topics: 
-Got Photos? Get Help!
-The ABCs of Photo Organization
-Preserve your Family Photos: Both Print and Digital
-Decluttering Your Boxes of Photos
-Decluttering Your Boxes of Family History
-Tackling Your Family History through Organization 
-Organize Your Genealogy Project
-Organize Your Genealogy “STUFF” for the Next of Kin
 
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Nebraska Humanities
 
Topics: Many topics to choose from. Various rates and restrictions may apply. Go to the web site for more info.
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