ATTENDANCE IS EITHER VIA ZOOM OR IN PERSON - SELECT DURING REGISTRATION.
Want to use Ancestry.com but don’t know where to start? That’s not surprising because there is a lot to learn about the world’s largest online genealogy research repository, with over 19 billion records.
To take some of the challenge out of this, we are offering a series of 2 separate workshops, starting with Ancestry basics on Apr 11, 2026.
This workshop will delve deeper.
Register for one or both. Separate registration is required for each workshop.
In this workshop, Gerry will take a more in-depth look at Ancestry:
- What is on the home page? What do each of the tabs do?
- What are the different methods when searching for data?
- How to save/print results which we’ve found?
- How to add new found data to our tree?
- How to add photos/media to our tree?
- How to download our tree data?
- Can we upload to our tree?
We will also discuss what Pro-Tools offer and whether it’s worth it.
Bring along your questions and, time permitting, we will try to find some answers for you.
Gerald (Gerry) Poulton began genealogical searching in the days of microfilms, microfiche and paper records when little was online or indexed. As information became more and more readily available, he has become more familiar with searching and has been actively involved in research for more than thirty years. He is a member of several genealogical societies and volunteers at the Victoria Genealogical Society’s Learning and Research Centre every week. He has also been making presentations and workshops on a variety of topics for more than fifteen years.
Gerry’s heritage is England (Devon, London), Ireland, Germany and Ontario, so those are the areas with which I am most familiar. And, no, my tree is not complete! He was born and raised in Saskatchewan, and in a previous life taught Chemistry at the University of Victoria for nearly 40 years.