Family History Workshop

About the Family History Workshop

About

The Family History Workshop is a one-day genealogy workshop. Breakout sessions run in four concurrent tracks, including a Beginner Track for those new to or interested in genealogy, a featured main speaker, and everything in between, giving attendees a wide variety of topics to choose from.

The registration fee includes session attendance, a workbook containing outlines and handouts from all sessions, vendor booths, light refreshments, and a catered lunch.

Registration will open soon!

Location

The Family History Workshop will be held at Minnesota State University Moorhead's Comstock Memorial Union.

615 14th St. S.

Moorhead, MN 56563

Free parking is available in lot M-5. Street parking is also available.

Campus Map

Registration

The $59 registration fee ($40 for MSUM students, faculty, and staff) includes session attendance, a workbook containing outlines and handouts from all sessions, vendor booths, light refreshments, and a catered lunch. Preregistration is required to guarantee lunch availability, allergen alternatives, and a copy of the workbook (digital copies are not available).

Register online (registration opens soon), via mail (Heritage Education Commission PO Box 292 Moorhead, MN 56560), or on the day of the event - day of registration begins at 8am.

Cash, checks, and cards accepted.

Preregistration by September 3rd is required if you want lunch and a workbook. Walk-in registration is available the day of the event.

Lodging

More information coming soon.

Annual Research Awards

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.

Vendors

Attention Vendors: you can sponsor the workshop by placing ads in our workbook and videos. Contact us for information.

Main Speaker

Lois Abromitis Mackin, Ph.D.

Lois Abromitis Mackin, Ph.D., is a professional genealogist focusing on British Isles and American research. Lois has been teaching and writing about genealogical records and methods since 2010. She began working with DNA in 2014. She is a graduate of ProGen 5 and has completed over a dozen week-long institute-level genealogy courses. She is a member, volunteer, and officeholder for numerous genealogical, historical, and lineage societies, including the Irish Genealogical Society International, the National Genealogical Society, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, the Minnesota Genealogical Society, the Daughters of the American Revolution, and the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in The State of Minnesota.

Presentations will be announced soon.

Family History Workshop Sponsors

Minnesota State University Moorhead Livingston Lord Library

The mission of Livingston Lord Library at Minnesota State University Moorhead is to support the academic and cultural experiences of students, faculty, and citizens of this region and to encourage their active, life-long learning.

Northern Lights Library Network

Funded by the Minnesota Legislature through the Minnesota Department of Education, Northern Lights Library Network (NLLN) is one of seven Minnesota multicounty, multitype library cooperative systems. NLLN is comprised of two hundred eighty academic, public, school, and special libraries in twenty-three counties in North-Central, Northwest, and West-Central Minnesota. NLLN works at the grassroots level to bring together all types of libraries and collections in the region to discover, enhance, and share resources through administrative, technological, and educational support.

50th Annual Family History Workshop