Family Gatherings: Dragging Genealogy Information Out of Your Family by Melissa Barker
Sun, Jan 18
|Zoom Virtual Event
This presentation will give you tips and tricks to get your family members talking about family history, even if they don’t want to!
Time & Location
Jan 18, 2026, 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM PST
Zoom Virtual Event
About the Event
Family gatherings, we all have them. Whether they are annual events such as family reunions or one-time occasions such as birthday parties, Father’s Day, weddings, or funerals, this is a time when our family members come together. This presentation will give you tips and tricks to get your family members talking about family history, even if they don’t want to!
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives & Museum. She is known as The Archive Lady in the genealogy community. She writes a popular blog titled A Genealogist in the Archives. She has been a professional genealogist for the past 20 years with expertise in Tennessee records. She has been researching her own family history for the past 35 years.
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