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PEGGY ASH, AG®

Scanning Photos & My Heritage Colorization, 10:15 AM

Peggy is an Accredited Genealogist Professional. She acquired the Boston University Certificate in Genealogical Research in 2018 and has 10 certificates from courses at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and 4 certificates from courses at the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh. She has participated in many other conferences and courses because she is a genealogy education junkie. She enjoys doing presentations around the valley and helping others learn how to do genealogy. She volunteers and teaches courses and classes at the Mesa Temple Visitors’ center. She has been specializing in memory preservation for over 30 years. Her blog provides access to handouts and PowerPoints. Hiking is her other passion and last year she did a Camino across Spain and hiked across the Alps from Switzerland to Italy.

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BILL BRYAN

Writing Your Family History, 11:15 AM

Bill has been a Professional Genealogist for over 50 years. He was a Probate Investigator for 22 years, for the largest Heir Search Company in the United States. Searching for missing heirs to estates and recovering their money. Bill provided historical research for authors of more than a dozen books.

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KEITH HENDRICKS

FamilySearch Essentials: Discover the vast world of FamilySearch to unearth your family’s history, 11:15 AM

Keith comes from a family committed to family history work. His father is a past president of the Henry Hendricks Family Organization, which is a society providing newsletters and professional genealogical help to the descendants of one of the first families to settle Long Island, New York. For most of his life, Keith believed his family had already finished all needed genealogical work with little left to do. This changed about seven years ago when his son was serving a mission for The Church in a small town in Canada with the same name as one of his grandparents. Keith googled the history of the town's founder and started to use FamilySearch and Ancestry to see if he could connect the town's founder to his line. This led to the discovery of a fascinating story regarding a line where little work was done and little was known. But through the newly available records and research tools, great progress could be made. Like others in his family, Family History is now a passion and a focus. Keith has learned that there is still vast amounts of work to be done, and amazing resources available to assist.

SUSAN HOLIEN

FamilySearch Mobile Apps, 10:15 AM

Susan has lived in 7 states, but is originally from Northeast Indiana. She 11 children. She began researching her family at 18. She started with interviewing family members, visiting cemeteries, sending away for death certificates, and looking up census records. Susan was hooked right away. Her family history experience is expansive and passion completely contagious.

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SUSAN JENSEN, AG®

Censuses, 12:15 PM

Susan is an accredited genealogist in the U.S. Southwest and U.S. Great Lakes region. She enjoys researching her own family history, especially her Mormon pioneer heritage, as well as helping others with theirs by volunteering at the Salt River FamilySearch Center and with organizations like ICAPGen, Stories Behind the Stars, and Brigham Young University's Record Linking Lab. Susan is married to Eric, her equally genealogy-obsessed husband. They have four children and one granddaughter. When she's not researching, Susan enjoys reading, reviewing books on her blog (www.blogginboutbooks.com), cross-stitching, traveling, and cuddling her grandbaby.

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SANDY JONES

FamilySearch: Help, Learning, and Family History Guide, 12:15 PM

“We are who we are because they were who they were.” ~Unknown

Sandy became interested in her ancestors sometime around 2007. As she learned a little about their lives, she found that she wanted to learn even more. That started a journey to teach herself how to use different genealogical websites. She enjoys sharing that knowledge with others. Sandy has many hobbies from sewing to building furniture, but always goes back to family history.

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CAROL MADSEN

Family History: Research Stories

Carol has been gathering the genealogy and family history of her family and ancestors for over 50 years. She has volunteered at the Mesa Family History Center and served mission for six and a half years with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints doing service with the Support Department of FamilySearch.org. Her strength is in using database resources to do research. Her experience in research has been mostly in Canada, United States, Scandinavian and European countries. Carl feels great joy in bringing ancestors to life and how watching how it affects their descendants. She enjoys helping people connect with their living relatives and hearing how exciting these experiences were for them.

DENNIS MILLER

FamilySearch: Adding Memories, Documents, Phots, and Audio, 11:15 AM

Dennis has been teaching, coaching, and advising friends and neighbors on family history for over 25 years in the Mesa area. Within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, he volunteers in multiple family history roles. Dennis also volunteered as the Baptistry Coordinator in the Mesa Temple for 14 years and loved assisting youth and families bringing their family names to the Temple. He helped plan and set up three different Family History Centers for The Church and now continues to serve as a volunteer at the Salt River FamilySearch Center. Dennis is a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ and attributes his family focus to his parents and their love for their extended family.

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BRENDA MORRIS

FamilySearch: Attaching Record Hints, and Find-A-Grave, 10:15 AM

Brenda is a retired librarian and has always loved searching for information. She began looking into her Family History in the 1970's by interviewing elderly relatives, writing letters, and scrolling through microfilm reels. Brenda has watched the transformation of gathering facts and information over the decades and now scours the digital world for those elusive details that help her connect with her ancestors.

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