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Past IDQuest Presentations

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ID Quest Presentation Featured

Keynote Speakers

2020
  • Kenyatta Berry
  • Blaine Bettinger
2022
  • Dan Debenham
  • Kathleen Brandt
 

Presentations

Introduction to Genealogy

presentation speaker year
Getting Started in Genealogy Research
Handout Video		 Barbara LaClair 2024
Resources at the Topeka Genealogy Society Handout
HandoutVideo		 Barbara LaClair 2020
25 Free Genealogy Websites
HandoutVideo		 Cherie Bush 2020
10 Steps to Reclaiming Your African Roots
HandoutVideo		 Thom Reed 2020
Getting Started in Finding Your Identity
HandoutVideo		 Sherri Camp 2020
Building Your Family Tree
Video		 Sherri Camp 2022

 
Using DNA

presentation speaker year
Genetic Discoveries: Exploring Ancestry's New DNA Tools
Handout 1 Handout 2 Handout 3 Video		 Marty Flanagan 2024
Introduction to Autosomal DNA
HandoutVideo		 Blaine Bettinger 2020
Using Y-DNA and mtDNA to
Explore Your Ancestry
HandoutVideo		 Blaine Bettinger 2020
Using Autosomal DNA for
18th and 19th Century Mysteries
HandoutVideo		 Blaine Bettinger 2020
Chromosome Mapping
HandoutVideo		 Blaine Bettinger 2020
DNA: Our Love - Hate Relationship
Handout		 Kathleen Brandt 2022
What's in Your DNA?
HandoutVideo		 Marty Flanagan 2022
Why You Should Use AncestryDNA
HandoutVideo		 Marty Flanagan 2022
Expanding Your DNA Story
HandoutVideo		 Marty Flanagan 2022
Tools to Organize Your DNA
HandoutVideo		 Marty Flanagan 2022

 
Methodology

presentation speaker year
Family Search Family Tree
Video		 Renee Aldrich 2024
Breaking Through Brick Walls
HandoutVideo		 Marty Flanagan 2020
Heirloom Preservation
HandoutVideo		 Jenny Coss 2020
Using FamilySearch
HandoutVideo		 Renee Aldrich 2022
Digitize Your Photos: Proceed Wisely
and with a Plan!
HandoutVideo		 Jenny Coss 2022
Connect, Communicate, and Collaborate:
Non-traditional Strategies for Researching Family History
HandoutVideo		 Cindy Cruz 2022
Genealogy: Chasing Your Family Roots
HandoutVideo		 Dr. Phillip Baker 2022
Tracing Immigrant Origins
Handout		 Shari Golden 2022
Brick Wall Strategies for Elusive Ancestors
HandoutVideo		 Debbie Gurtler 2022
Sankofa: Go Back to the Past and Bring Forward That Which is Useful
HandoutVideo		 Steven Wright 2022
Discovering Your Orphan Train Ancestors
Handout		 Kaily Carson
Lori Halfhide		 2022
Oral History Workshop
Handout		 Donna Rae Pearson 2022
A Creative Guide to Writing Your Family's Stories
HandoutVideo		 Kim Stanley 2022

 
Researching Your Heritage

presentation speaker year
Exploring Volga German Heritage: Finding Family Stories from Russia to Kansas
Handout Video		 Kim Phillips 2024
One Family's Journey from County Cavan to Nebraska
Handout Video		 John Manning 2024
Palatine Genealogy
HandoutVideo		 Dr. Phillip Baker 2020
Hispanic Genealogy
HandoutVideo		 Debbie Gurtler 2020
Basics of Swedish Research
HandoutVideo		 Kathy Meade 2020
Researching Native American Ancestry
HandoutVideo		 Barbara LaClair 2020
Irish Genealogy: Getting Started
HandoutVideo		 Craig Foster 2020
Getting Started with Jewish Genealogy
HandoutVideo		 W. Todd Knowles 2020
Researching Your African American Ancestry
Video		 Kenyatta Berry 2020
Colonization, Migration and Longing for Rootedness
Video		 Christina Valdivia-Alcala 2022
Finding Your Swedish Roots
Handout		 Lenora Lynam 2022
Nicodemus: Children of the Promised Land
Handout		 Angela Bates 2022
One Irish Family's Journey: From County Cavan to Nebraska
HandoutVideo		 John Manning 2022
Relationship Searching in Older Swedish Church Records
Handout		 Kathy Meade 2022
Researching Volga German Ancestry Through Russian Archives
Video		 Brent Mai 2022

 
Resources

presentation speaker year
Unlocking the Past: Exploring Ancestry’s New Tools for Family Research
Video		 Marty Flanagan 2024
Genealogy Resources Available
at the Kansas State
Historical Society
HandoutVideo		 Lauren Gray 2022
Resources at the Topeka Genealogical
Society Library
HandoutVideo		 Barbara LaClair 2020

 
Local History

presentation speaker year
Ellis Trail to Nicodemus: The End of the Journey to the Promise Land
Video		 Angela Bates 2024
Being Brown Mexican Stories of Struggles, Pride and Culture
HandoutVideo		 Valerie Mendoza 2024
A History of the America
Video		 Eric Anderson 2024
History, Human Rights and the Power of One
Video		 Kenneth Morris Jr. 2024
Quindaro: America’s Largest Underground Railroad Site - Spawned from Bleeding Kansas
HandoutHandout #2Video		 Holly and Kristen Zane 2022

 
Heritage Societies

presentation speaker year
Are you a Mayflower Descendent?
HandoutVideo		 Della Regenold 2022
Sparkle with DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution)
Handout		 Mary Hoyt 2022
Panel: Daughters of American Colonists, Daughters of Colonial Dames of the XVII Century,
Daughters of 1812, Daughters
of the Union Veterans of the Civil War, Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America
HandoutVideo		 Nancy Williams,
Leslie Harris,
Gayla Hoyt, Rosanne Wilson
Patricia Carpenter		 2022

 

 

Reveals

2020
 
2023

Episode 1

  • Danielle Norwood
  • Bernadette Bowen

Episode 2

  • Carolyn Wims-Campbell
  • Thelma Simons

Episode 3

  • Christine Soria
  • Richard Jones
  • Royce Caldron

 

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