This is a hybrid meeting:
- Join us in person at Knox Presbyterian Church (Lisgar & Elgin) in Geneva Hall. Please use the Garden Entrance on Elgin Street. Limited free street parking is available on Saturdays, and the City Hall Parking Garage is available for $2.00.
- Join online by registering here [to be announced later]
. This registration covers both events.
Using Google Lens for Genealogy / 9 a.m. EDT
Presenter: Carol Annett
Google Lens is a tool that lets you search for information using images. Carol Annett will give a step-by-step demonstration of how she uses it as a tool for genealogy research and finding information for family stories. The focus of the talk will be using Google Lens to search for matching images of objects such as family heirlooms and mementos.
Carol Annett has been doing genealogy research for more than 20 years. During that time, she has enjoyed visiting her ancestral places, as well as her husband's, in England, Scotland and Canada. Attending her first BIFHSGO meeting in 2006, she joined the writing group the same day and has been writing ever since. She has contributed articles to ACR on the themes of home children; a vanished ancestral village in Scotland; surprising discoveries in cemeteries; ships that brought her ancestors to Canada; her father's WWII experiences, and a war bride and a great-grandmother on her husband's family tree. She has given several Great Moments talks and one feature presentation at BIFHSGO meetings. Carol is the coordinator of the BIFHSGO writing group.
Small Moments
BIFHSGO members are invited to share small moments in their genealogical research – a small but delightful discovery, told in a five to ten-minute story of 1,000 words or less, about an interesting finding, event, person or object from a person’s ancestry. Blended with anecdotes, photos, historical context, a map or family tree, a small moment is like a personal Heritage Minute. You could call it a family history vignette. We already know we will hear about “Gaspé Time,” a grandfather’s pocket watch and clock, and the identification of a mystery heirloom. There will be time for more, should attendees online or in-person on the day be inspired to share their own small moment.
