Jamboree 2016: Exhibitor Spotlight - ShipIndex.org

ShipIndex.org helps genealogists, historians, and researchers of all types, learn more about the vessels that interest them. From finding images of ships that ancestors emigrated on, to learning more about the ships that people served on, built, owned, or interacted with, ShipIndex makes vessel research easy, efficient, and accurate.  

Exhibit Hall FREE to the public all weekend

Southern California Genealogy Jamboree
June 3-5, 2016
www.genealogyjamboree.com

Jamboree 2016 Speaker Spotlight: Peter McCracken

Peter McCracken is the publisher of ShipIndex.org, a site that helps people do research on specific ships. He holds a Masters in Library Science and a Masters in Maritime History. He was a reference librarian at East Carolina University and the University of Washington before co-founding Serials Solutions, a company that helps libraries manage electronic resources, in 2000. He has written a quarterly column about “Maritime History on the Internet” in Sea History magazine for the past ten years.

Sunday, June 5, 2016  10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
SU016   Looking for a Ship: How to Research the Vessels in Your Tree 
Learn advanced techniques for seeking information about ships that ancestors emigrated on, served on, owned, built, and more. Locate primary and secondary documents about the ships you’re researching. Level: Int., Adv

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Southern California Genealogy Jamboree
Genetic Genealogy 2016
www.genealogyjamboree.com
jamboree@scgsgenealogy.com
818.843.7247