Superb Seven: Fabulous Avenues for Finding Family in Manuscript Collections

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Terrific. What a great way to finish off the marathon! I definitely have more confidence to go digging around for manuscript collection now. Thank you so much!\n\nthank you\n\nThank you for all of this helpful information. I use WorldCat, but almost everything else was new to me. Sometimes the pacing was either too slow or too fast, but other than that this was very good and I definitely appreciate all of this knowledge-sharing!\n\nThank you for all the information. I am looking forward to traveling in the hopefully near future. \n\nThank you for showing me what can be found by taking the time to look. Thank you to organizers for all your behind the scene work -- it did make a difference just as you do with all webinars.\n\nthank you to everyone.\n\nThanks for the new resources to check into.\n\nThanks so much for a wonderful presentation by Paula Stuart-Warren. As other attendees have said, I want to start searching to see what might be available about my family.\n\nThe presentation was great for pointing out ways to find more documentation on family. I especially liked the examples from various collections shown. Thank you.\n\nThe webinar was good - the syllabus is very complete. \n\nThe webinar was very informative. Thank you\n\nthee is such untapped potential out there! Thanks. \n\nThese sites are overwhelming for a beginner. You helped immensely in putting them in perspective. I won't automatically skip over them anymore. Thank you!\n\nThis one needed a lot more time and a lot more examples, but it was good. \n\nThis was definitely for the advanced researcher. Something to aspire to. Thanks.\n\nThis was excellent. I had no idea of other places to actually find information and how to use the various sites to find life stories about ancestors in communities. Wonderful speaker and her enthusiasm came through. Such a fun two days.\n\nThis was great! Wonderful webinar!\n\nThis was the best webinar for me!!\n\nThis webinar certainly had Superb Seven Fabulous Avenues for Finding Ancestors in Family Manuscripts. There was so much information, and the time flew by. Thank you.\n\nTop Notch! Paula Rocks!\n\nVery different topic, well-presented and fascinating. \n\nvery exciting and informative\n\nVery good info. Great presentation. Thanks.\n\nVery good webinar\n\nVery good!\n\nVery Good!!\n\nVery good, but titles should be shorter -- especially when one needs to include a number of events on the same small piece of a weekly calendar.\n\nVery informative\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative.\n\nVery informative. I didn't know how to begin, and you have given me a guide. Thanks.\n\nVery interesting and informative\n\nVery interesting and informative. I just want to forget everything else and get started.\n\nVery knowledgeable and easy to understand, shows enthusiasm \n\nVery lively speaker. Interesting material.\n\nVery well presented with lots of information & not dragged down by minutia. \n\nWhat a fantastic, enthusiastic speaker. So many new ideas for expanding our research!\n\nwhen will she present the next seven or ten or twenty? this was excellent\n\nWonderful presentation by Paula!!! Her manner was so warm and friendly, she was a pleasure to listen to, and learn from. She provided a wealth of helpful information and ideas; I took copious notes, and look forward to re-watching next week on video. Thank you so much, Paula!!! And thank you, MyHeritage and other Staff for the beautiful webinar series!!!\n\nWonderful presentation of the types of things that can be found, and the information they may contain. :-)\n\nWonderful presentation! \n\nWonderful presentations and thanks for the marathon!!!\n\nWonderful way to round out an amazing stretch of webinars. Good to hear the very underutilized loose resources getting some love\n\nWonderful! Inspiring! Where will I start? so many great ideas.\n\nWONDERFUL!!!\n\nWonderfully inspiring! I appreciate Paula's enthusiasm\n\nWow! Her enthusiasm and curiousity was contagious! What a great way to end the marathon!\n\nWow! This was great. I'm all fired up to search archive collections! Great, great information. Thank you!\n\nWow, you saved the best for last! Paula was such an enthusiastic supporter of archives and the treasures they hold that I want to hear her speak over and over again. Thanks to everyone involved in the 24hr marathon of knowledge - what a gift you have given us!\n\nWowza!\n\nYou have inspired me to start checking archives here in Canada. Thanks for a great informative webinar.

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Paula NEVER disappoints! Bravo!\n\nPaula Stewart Warren ... I grew up on a dairy farm near Oshkosh! Wonderful presentation!\n\nPaula Stuart Warren is such a wealth of information. So glad you finished up the marathon with someone like her. Fantastic. \n\nPaula Stuart-Warren spoke well, clearly, had all her information in clear presentation for us to see in this hour. I appreciated that she went all over the world looking at varied subjects in her Seven Avenues most of which were new to me. Thanks!\n\nPaula Stuart-Warren's seminar was GREAT! Her enthusiasm came across her presentation and her screenshots were excellent! Thank You for the wealth of information!\n\nPaula was very informative. I really enjoyed her presentation.\n\nPaula's a gem! Great information with great enthusiasm is so inspiring!\n\nPaula's enthusiasm is infectious! Good detail about accessing and using keywords.\n\nPaula's presentation was an invaluable across the board gem. \n\nThank you everyone for this awesome 24-hour gift of all these presentations. I'm sooooo inspired to stay up all night and overload my mobile hotspot link which is all I have in the rural area where I live for the internet, but I might try. Ha! Go get some rest now and have a great weekend.\n\nPaula's presentation was fantastic as usual! Thank you! And...thank you Geoff, Daniel & Marion! Great job!\n\nPaula's webinar was fantastic -- so many archives, so little time... \n\nPresented with a lot of enthusiasm. A lot of great information. \n\nRepositories are something I don't know much about. There are so many in so many new places.\n\nShe had some great ideas that are often overlooked. I enjoyed her energy.\n\nso appreciative of the time and effort from everyone involved in the marathon. You deserve a good rest (once the videos are up haha). Looking forward to seeing some of these again. Cheers from Dunedin New Zealand\n\nSo helpful! Can't wait to get searching!\n\nSo many good ideas that apply to researchers just about anywhere. Thank you.\n\nSo many good ideas! EXCELLENT PAULA!\n\nSo many great ideas for places to hunt for ancestors!\n\nSo many new sources of discovery, on line digital and hard copy repositories, libraries, University collections and family collections and where housed. This lady is so enthusiastic about her work but covers such a huge section of everything family, business, political and historical and ideas on where to look and what you may find in other locations away from the area you are researching. Fantastic podcast. \n\nSo much information! Wow!\n\nSo much new information!\n\nSo much wonderful info! Looking forward to watching it again. Glad I am a member.\n\nso much wonderful search info!!!\n\nSpeaker was very knowledgeable\n\nSuberb!\n\nSuch good ideas of where to look for family information. I could hardly wait to start my search. thankyou so much Paula.\n\nSuch great information. I learned a lot. Nice that it was in about 45 minute sessions as my brain cannot contain everything. I want to go back and watch so many again.\n\nSuch wonderful ideas!!-\n\nSuper star researcher!\n\nSuperb Seven - can't wait to get back into the archives.\n\nTerrific Ending to a Great Marathon! Paula was was especially appreciated after 26 hours with very little sleep!\n\nTerrific information -- some was new to me. Also, I was reminded about ArchiveGrid, which I need to try. Thank you very much.\n\nTerrific presentation!

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3. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Great way to end a 24 plus hour marathon. \n\nGreat Webinar - so many good hints and ideas. ROAD TRIP!!!!!\n\nGreat webinar to end with! So many great ideas and suggestions! Thank you for all of them! \n\nGreat webinar. So much to take in and explore\n\nGreat\n\nhelpful and thorough\n\nI am excited about my research because of this webinar!\n\nI am excited to try some of these web sites for my brick wall! Thank you.\n\nI did not know about all these resources! So excited to start searching! Thank You! \n\nI did not realize how much cool stuff was out there. Appreciate this roadmap to the sources to find it.\n\nI have heard her speak before and always love her info even if sometimes it's a refresher course - thanks to everyone who hosted and presented these free webinars for us! \n\nI really enjoyed this webinar. I learned about new sites to do research and/or visit to see what is available. The speaker was well versed in the subject matter. She was very enthusiastic about the subject and shared her preferences and expounded on their contents. I have more places and better ways to research for my elusive family members. Thank you, Paula, for your enthusiasm and for sharing some of your favorite research sites with us. One never finishes with genealogy because there is so much to find!!\n\nI really learned a lot--good details on how to access & what might be there. I've heard about the Special Collections at our University but somehow, it didn't inspire me enough to follow up. Now I'll go there & others! It gives me hope on some brick walls of intriguing ancestors of mine. Thanks!\n\nI wish she or someone would talk about find things on farmers. It seems all my family were farmers.\n\nI would like to thank everyone involved in this wonderful and inspiring webinar series! It's great to learn from our living. Goodbye from Alberta. \n\nI'll never catch up -the marathon was beyond genealogy!\n\nI'm so excited to start checking and find new treasures in places I never thought about! Thank you for the superb presentation!\n\nInformative and Paula gave great examples! Thank you.\n\nInteresting presentation.Thank you for the 26 hours, it has been great. \n\nInteresting, inspirational, well organized. Thank you!\n\nIt expanded my research knowledge. Thanks.\n\nIt was something new to discover and another avenue to pursue in my Genealogy.\n\nItems I have not ever tried to find - fascinating how much is available. I'm anxious to get to the point where I can really search for them for my families. \n\nJust excellent, thank you!\n\nlogical and helped all of us be able to do this, thank you \n\nLooking forward to next week so I can watch this one again!\n\nLoosing internet connection, great webinar.\n\nlots of good information\n\nLots of great info that I didn't know about before. Thanks for the 24 hr webs. Great idea! \n\nlots of information.\n\nLots of information. Terrific presentation and the presenter was fabulous.\n\nLots of new ideas to follow up on. Thanks!\n\nLots of new information and suggestions for research. Good presentation. Thank you.\n\nLots of random places to search! Presenter was knowledgeable.\n\nLots of very valuable information. Thanks.\n\nLove to Hear Paula speak, her enthusiasm is contagious. \n\nNew places to search for mentions of family!\n\nNot yet a member so I didn't have he syllabus to refer to, but depth of coverage was excellent! Well spoken and well presented!\n\nOfficially overloaded right now, but this one will be put in my Look Here First file on my computer desk. \n\nOutstanding! Great for all levels of family researchers.\n\nPacked with inspiration and hope [ in practical terms mentioned, for finding that elusive ancestor!!!!!!!!!\n\nPassionate and inspiring! I'll be checking more of the Superb 7+ suggestions. We do tend to go to the same ones frequently ;)\n\nPaula always has such fantastic resources to share - makes me realize that I need to look harder!!\n\nPaula always seems so excited - just makes you want to do whatever she suggests!!\n\nPaula has been a go to for me since the Salt Lake Institute years ago! \n\nPaula is a great presenter. The syllabus is great.\n\nPaula is a great professional genealogist, and her presentations are always professional. Excellent lecture content, excellent visuals, excellent handout. Excellent. Thank you.

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4. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Excellent presentation. Paula is a treasure. :-)\n\nExcellent presentation. The resources mentioned will greatly add to my research capabilities. Thank you so much.\n\nExcellent run-thru of various ways to find manuscripts. Makes me want to finish this quickly so I can go searching.\n\nExcellent speaker and really opened my eyes for places to search. Thank you\n\nExcellent!\n\nExcellent! This is an area of genealogy research I haven't explored.\n\nExcellent, so may good web sites to search!\n\nExcellent... very good information and suggestions\n\nFabulous new information!\n\nFabulous presentation. A wealth of information. I am inspired to research more in manuscripts\n\nFabulous presentation. Good information, clearly articulated by an enthusiastic speaker using helpful examples.. \n\nFABULOUS!!! Thanks so much for such an informative presentation. I wish it could have gone on for hours. Thank you Paula, from another person named Paula. What a great name!!\n\nfantastic resources\n\nfantastic!\n\nFantastic! Mostly new information I’ve not heard on your other webinars.\n\nFantastic! Thanks everyone!\n\nGave me unthought off suggestions. Very well presented.\n\nGetting my to do list in order!\n\nGood info. \n\nGood information about resources that can easily be overlooked\n\nGood overview of the subject of manuscript collections and lesser known source materials\n\nGood reminder that I need to get back to checking out all those manuscript collections.\n\nGood reminder. I work in an Archive, but archives still aren't my first thought when it comes to researching my family.\n\nGood reminders of all the stuff out there if we just take the time to look\n\nGood variety, well presented. Paula sounds so enthusiastic, these sites will probably crash!\n\ngreat\n\nGreat ideas to search. Unfortunately, I see bright shiny objects in those manuscripts, so I will have to control my ADD and stay focused on my RESEARCH PLAN!\n\ngreat info and delivery!\n\nGreat info!!!\n\nGreat info, thanks!\n\nGreat information and presenter. Paula made the material very interesting and informative.\n\nGreat information delivered in a systematic fashion\n\nGreat Information! Definitely gave me some new places to search.\n\nGreat information. Thanks!\n\nGreat Job everyone , I will be busy this year.\n\nGreat job! Learned a lot. Anxious to check to see what I can find. Thanks!!\n\nGreat list of resources - wish I would be alive in 100 years when so much more will be digitized!! Thank you, Paula!\n\nGreat presentation! Thank you!\n\nGreat presentation! While searching for sites mentioned in presentation/chat, stumbled across websites relevant to my research!\n\nGreat research sources for this time of lockdowns and limited travel!\n\nGreat resources we probably don't think about often enough. Can't wait till we can travel and visit some of these collections.\n\ngreat session, I did not know about any of these sources\n\nGreat stuff! Thank you!\n\nGreat tools for the tool box. Thank you!

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5. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   A good reminder of where to look for those elusive resources!\n\nA nice overview on finding manuscripts. Maybe there should be a webinar on the manuscripts themselves - what are they, what's in them, how to decide which are important to one's research, limitations and pitfalls, etc.\n\nA+ so so helpful. Thanks a million Paula, so appreiate your help. God bless. \n\nAbsolutely wonderful \n\nalot of info i never heard....much to use and think about\n\nAmazing sources and underutilized research tool! Fantastic presentation!\n\nAmazingly helpful for people who have been doing genealogy for a long time and want to explore beyond the usual sources. \n\nAn excellent way to end with Paula Stuart-Warren really informative!! Thanks!\n\nAnother good one! I have been amazed on the few occasions when I've found something from one of these sources. Now I'm off to look for something new, say my elusive Great Grandfather & his family.\n\nappreciated the information on manuscripts and where to look for them! Pretty comprehensive list with lots of tips for diving off from the top 7 she gave us.\n\nAs Paula always is, this was superb! I have known about Archive Grid and NUCMC, but now I have a better understanding of how to access them -- thank you so much!!\n\nAwesome, this last one was one of the best. great sources and suggestions. \n\nAwesome. Looking forward to some research. Thank you Paula.\n\nChock full of good information.\n\nClear, concise information. Good Syllabus.\n\nCousin Paula did a fantastic job organizing this talk and presenting the information. She has motivated me to get going again with manuscripts.\n\nenlightening\n\nEvery session was great\n\nexcellant\n\nexcellent\n\nexcellent\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent 26 Hour Marathon! Thank you!\n\nExcellent beyond belief!!! Always appreciate the added bonus of such an extensive syllabus! TLC\n\nExcellent coverage of the topic. Gave me some places to search that I didn't know about.\n\nExcellent ending to a great 26-hour genealogy webinars!\n\nExcellent event. I listened to 5 webinars total, but I plan to listen to more next week. Thank you for this. \n\nExcellent Ideas for research! I knew about a couple - now have more to add!\n\nexcellent information and examples\n\nExcellent information! \n\nExcellent presentation and presenter, hand out well done\n\nExcellent presentation and very useful information!\n\nExcellent presentation

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