Mondays' Meet The Speakers – Jamboree 2018

Gale L. French

Gale French has been interested in genealogy for 30 years. He's lives in Texas and worked for IBM at NASA for 26 years. He lectures at local & national genealogy conferences and teaches Y-DNA class.

Presentations:

• Y-DNA for Genealogy - Basics of Y-DNA Testing

Crista Cowan
Ancestry

Crista Cowan has been employed by Ancestry since 2004; her involvement in family history, however, reaches all the way back to childhood. From being parked under a microfilm reader at the Family History Library in her baby carrier to her current career as a professional genealogist, Crista has spent thousands of hours discovering, documenting and telling family stories. She is known as the Barefoot Genealogist and has a weekly YouTube show designed to help people discover their family history.

Presentations:

• Writing Fascinating Family History One Story at a Time
• Documenting the Enslaved in Your Family Tree
• Genealogy Game Show

Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD, MA

Circlemending

Jean Wilcox Hibben, PhD, MA, national speaker and writer, serves on a number of boards for genealogy groups, including the Southern California Chapter of Associated Professional Genealogists, Genealogical Speakers Guild, International Society of Family History Writers & Editors, and the Corona Genealogical Society.

Presentations:

• A Key to Research Success: Avoiding Fallacies in Family History
• What our Ancestors Feared Most: Diseases and their Treatments

Colleen Greene, MLIS

Colleen Greene, MLIS, is a librarian, web developer, and educator. She is the marketing librarian for California State University, Fullerton, and teaches an online graduate-level genealogical methodology course for San Jose State University. Greene's teaching focuses on methodology; Mexican, Mexican-American, and Hispanic research; emerging technologies; and society marketing and communications.

Presentations:

• An Overview of Researching Hispanic Ancestry

Southern California Genealogical Society
49th Annual Southern California Genealogy Jamboree
www.genealogyjamboree.com