Annual
Family History Workshop
September 17, 2022
We hope you can join us for the 46th Family History Workshop, presented by the Heritage Education Commission. The one-day workshop will be in-person at the Ramada by Wyndham hotel in Fargo. Breakout sessions run in four concurrent tracks, giving you a wide variety of topics. The $49 registration fee includes access to all sessions, a workbook containing outlines of every session, vendor booths, and lunch catered by the Ramada Inn. Come for a full day of learning and interacting with other family history enthuasists!
Preregistration is required if you want lunch. Walk-in registration is available the day of the event. Registration and refreshments from 8:00am-8:30am. The workshop runs from 8:30am-4:15pm. The Ramada by Wyndham Hotel is located at 3333 13th Ave South in Fargo, North Dakota. The conference center is located on the east side of the building.
Click Here to view the Conference Brochure
The Sessions available at the 2022 workshop are:
| Session Name | Presenter | |
| Proven Research Strategies that Transcend Geo-Political Boundaries | David Rencher | |
| Finding Your Roots in the Beginning | Jackie Marler | |
| Using FamilySearch and Ancestry.com Together | Art Williams | |
| Finding Clues in Census Records | Cathi Weber | |
| Irish Church Records - Church of Ireland, Catholic and Presbyterian | David Rencher | |
| Tom's Korean War | Jackie Marler | |
| Using FamilySearch and MyHeritage Together | Art Williams | |
| Displaying, Sharing and Publishing Your Family History | Cathi Weber | |
| Colonial Research Strategies: Overseas Records | David Rencher | |
| Using FamilySearch.org to Research, Preserve & Share Your Family History | Rick Crume | |
| Tools of the Genetic genealogists | Rob Flanagan-Stieglitz | |
| Essentials of Swedish Genealogical Research | Michael Swanson | |
| National Archives of England and Ireland | David Rencher | |
| Tree Keeping: genealogy Software vs. Online Family Trees | Rick Crume | |
| DNA Discoveries - What DNA Testing Can Reveal | Rob Flanagan-Stieglitz | |
| Beyond Ancestry.com: Genealogy Resources in the Archives | Trista Raezer-Stursa |
Attention Vendors: you can sponsor the workshop by placing ads in our workbook and videos. Click here for details.
An important part of our family history workshop is announcing the winners of our annual research awards. We encourage all historical researchers to consider submitting projects for award consideration in several different categories. This is an excellent way for your research to receive the recognition it deserves and to make it more broadly available to other researchers. Click here for details on how to submit a project. Award winning projects are submitted to the Archives of the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center at Minnesota State University at Moorhead. Click here to see past award winners. You do not have to attend the Family History Workshop to submit a project.