5 Ways to find your Family in Southern Manuscript Collections

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Mark is a wonderful speaker!!!! Always giving us new ways to do our genealogy.\n\nMark is always amazing. So smart, such an engaging teacher.\n\nMark is always excellent!\n\nMark is always excellent!!!! \n\nMark is always great!\n\nMark is always inspirational and gives real life examples! Excellent!\n\nMark is always interesting. Learned about new sites and love the success stories.\n\nMark is now one of my top speakers.\n\nMark Lowe gave excellent examples of using manuscripts and sources to find manuscripts.\n\nMark Lowe is always excellent, no matter what his subject.\n\nMark Lowe is always so interesting and informative!\n\nMark Lowe is an excellent presenter and I always learn from his webinars.\n\nMark never disappoints. \n\nMark offered a lot of useful ideas to expand my research\n\nMark's presentations are always very informative, helpful and interesting. Thank you Mark and Geoff! : )\n\nMark's sessions are always well-organized, informative, and packed with great examples. His style is a perfect match for the webinar format.\n\nMark's webinars are ALWAYS interesting...regardless of the subject matter. I'd completely forgotten about those old NUCMC books. Can't wait to check out the website. RIGHT NOW! Thanks for another great Wednesday afternoon.\n\nMost of my ancestors are from the North, but still found lots of good information in this webinar!\n\nMr. Lowe is an excellent presenter. Great information on finding manuscripts and other items we often don't bother to go after -- but we should! \n\nOpened my eyes to lots of new places to research, thanks!\n\nOUTSTANDING!\n\nReally informative, sparked some new ideas.\n\nSearch ideas apply to everyone\n\nSmooth speaker with a lot of pertinent information\n\nSo many new places to look. What fun\n\nso much info.\n\nSuch great information! Love it.\n\nThanks again to Mark for shaking loose more areas of research.\n\nThanks Geoff and Mark. I always learn so much for Mark's webinars. \n\nThis was a fun webinar. Mark's accent and voice was so relaxing to listen to. He was not rushed to say everything as though it was one word.\n\nThis webinar had a lot of good information. It starts out very slowly and gets much better. \n\nThis webinar was outstanding. Thank you!\n\nTopnotch! One of the best and most informative I have heard.\n\nTriggered new ideas and gained a few new sources.\n\nVery clear speaker and was well prepared.\n\nVery good info.\n\nVery good webinar! Great information well presented! Thanks!\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative and entertaining.\n\nvery informative and interesting\n\nVery informative and nice to hear J. Mark Lowe again.\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative. I appreciate it when the speaker gives the meaning of all the abbreviations - as in NUCMC and COSA. Thanks for the webinar today & looking forward to the next one!!!!!!\n\nvery interesting\n\nVery interesting, gave me new places to search for information.\n\nVery interesting. \n\nvery interesting. now trying to figure out how to get the syllabus\n\nVery useful, left me with much to explore.\n\nVery well thought out. He also keeps to his syllabus and puts all the power point citatio.ns on the syllabus. It always surprises me how many presenters don't do that. Kudos to him for making his syllabus up to date in every respect. Thanks, wonderful\n\nWonderful information! \n\nWow...so many different places to find manuscripts.\n\nYou all do such a wonderful job. So pleased to be safe at home and learn so much about genealogy research. Thank you so much. Mark was really one of the best. Fun, doesn't talk to fast. Its like visiting a good friend. So fun.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   Great reminders of OTHER places to look!\n\nGreat speaker. Great information on resources.\n\ngreat stuff\n\nHad been searching manuscript collection and not finding anything. Now with Mr. Lowe's helpful information, I am going to try again. Maybe I can overcome the brick wall I have been beating my head against in Kentucky. Thank you.\n\nHated to leave early but I had a Zoom meeting.\n\nHe gave some great strategies for finding manuscripts!\n\nHe is always so very helpful!\n\nHe suggested a lot of new places to research.\n\nI appreciated his illustrations and reminders to think of alternate sources.\n\nI just wish I’d put it to use!\n\nI love Mark's webinars -- they are always entertaining, encouraging, and packed with information! \n\nI never miss a Mark Lowe webinar. He is one of the best and we always learn so much from him. I've been fortunate enough to hear him in person several times. Thanks for having him. Have him back often!! \n\nI really enjoy Marks presentations. Would not miss one.\n\nI register for all Mark Lowe talks I hear about, even in societies located in counties and states where I have not researched! Always learn something.\nInformative as always\n\nIt was very informative!\n\nJ. Mark Lowe gave an excellent webinar with extensive suggestions on places to find and ways to search manuscript collections!\n\nJ. Mark Lowe is an excellent speaker. I learn new things each and every time I hear one of his talks.\n\nJ. Mark Lowe is my FAVORITE genealogy educator. Thank you for all the classes on Legacy Family Tree Webinars.\n\nLearned a lot! My grandfather told me, when I was 10, that any day he didn't learn something new was a wasted day. Today was most definitely NOT wasted! Thanks, Mark and Geoff!\n\nLearned about new resources. Liked the examples, Very helpful. I have heard Mark at conferences and he is always delightful. \n\nLearned about one new source, and a little different way to look at my searches. Always Good!\n\nLearned new information and am eager to pursue it. Reminded me of resources used in the past. Excellent as usual.\n\nLots of added directions where I can research my ancestors. Thx\n\nLots of good information on where to look for manuscript collections and suggestions for places to find new information.\n\nLots of good research information provided by Mark.\n\nLots of great ideas! Thanks!\n\nLots of great information and new sources to explore! Thank you, Mark!\n\nLots of great information!!\n\nlots of great suggestions of how and where to search for my ancestors. Some searches I had never heard of before. \n\nLots of really good information.\n\nLove anything Mark does and he always shares great underutilized resources\n\nLove anything Mark Lowe does.\n\nLove listening to Mark as his easy manner makes it a pleasure to learn!\n\nLove listening to Mark. I always learn a lot and am entertained in the process\n\nLove Mark and have missed his wonderful teaching. Webinar gave me a few new ideas and reminded me of some resources I need to revisit.\n\nLove Mark Lowe!\n\nLove Mark Lowe!!!!\n\nlove Mark!\n\nLove Mark's humor and stories! He is so easy to listen to yet his webinars are full of useful information\n\nlove this one\n\nLove to hear Tennessee Mark!\n\nLove, love, love J. Mark Lowe webinars!! So much information!\n\nLoved all the research go-tos. Wonderful webinar!\n\nLoved this webinar! I can't wait to check out some of the sites from the links provided. I will be watching a replay of this one. Keep these webinars coming, please. \n\nLowe is always interesting and well prepared. \n\nMany thanks for a wonderfully informative presentation!\n\nMar is a great presenter and so knowledgeable. I will listen to I'm every time.\n\nMark always has helpful information and is so good at telling about it.

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   5 years ago

   a lot of good information\n\n5+++ Tons of good info and so well presented. I am going back to listen to his previous webinars.\n\na Couple new site to search at for sure.\n\nA very Powerful research source.\n\nAdd a suggestion to join local gen & history societies, & finding aids, & local experts to locate local MS\n\nAlmost all of my ancestors are from the southern states, so I REALLY appreciate this webinar. Thank you Mark, Geoff and Legacy!\n\nalways good to be reminded of new ways to research!\n\nAlways great info from Mark. Some of the stuff you already know and just need a nudge to get back to it, but some other previously unknown sources to look at as well.\n\nAlways learn alot from mark Lowe.\n\nAlways superb! Thank you\n\nAlways the best with Mark Lowe!!!!!\n\nAm stuffed like a turkey! Great presenter!\n\nAny Mark Lowe webinar is a great webinar!\n\nAppreciated many of the new source approaches. Thanks.\n\nAs usual, a presentation by Mark Lowe is interesting, full of information, inspiring, and yes, humor! Thank you Thank you! Awesome!\n\nCan you ever give Mark anything less than a 5? You always learn a great deal from him. Finding Manuscripts came at the right time. Knowing some of the places I had not known. \n\nCan't wait to explore all these new resources for family information! Mark is one of top webinar presenters in my opinion.\n\nCan't wait to watch it again.\n\nClear & concise presenter.\n\nEnjoyed his method of presentation as well as the information!\n\nexcellent \n\nExcellent all the way around. *Whatever* he wants to present, sign me up. Thanks!\n\nExcellent as always!\n\nExcellent information!\n\nExcellent Mark.\n\nExcellent speaker, easy to follow. Content was extremely useful ... new stuff and reminders of what I have forgotten\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent. Even though I don't have much in the way of southern heritage the ideas Mark shared will work anywhere. Thanks so much.\n\nFantastic Presentation !!\n\nFantastic presenter!\n\nFantastic webinar with lots of great ideas to move forward with our genealogical researches. Mark is a great presenter...\n\nGood overview of possible resources to check out.\n\ngood presenter\n\nGood-easy to follow!\n\nGreat\n\nGREAT\n\nGreat info! Thanks!\n\nGreat info, Thanks\n\nGreat info, wonderful presenter. Thanks!\n\nGreat information\n\nGreat Information and Sources!!!\n\nGreat information for my special searching needs.\n\nGreat information!\n\nGreat information! Enjoyed the speaker.\n\nGreat job! Lots of interesting new ideas for researching! \n\nGreat new ideas for finding my difficult ancestors.\n\nGreat new sources to research. Mark was knowledgeable and his presentation enjoyable\n\nGreat presentation as always!\n\nGreat presentation. Thank you.

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