2019 Virtual Genealogy Fair Session 1 Exploring History Hub for Genealogists and Researchers

⇒ Schedule & Handouts: https://www.archives.gov/calendar/genealogy-fair
⇒ Event Evaluation Form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/KYREventEval
⇒ Transcript taken from the captioning is available upon request to KYR@nara.gov.
⇒ Learn more about the Know Your Records program:
http://www.archives.gov/calendar/know-your-records

⇒ Session Description: Hit a snag in your research? Bring your question to History Hub (https://history.gov), the National Archives’ pioneering online platform for crowdsourced historical and genealogical research, where Archives staff and expert community members alike are waiting to lend their expertise. Learn about the capabilities of History Hub including how to search from the pool of existing questions, how to post your own question, how to sign up and join the community, see what our partner agencies are doing, and more.

Presenters:
⇒ Rebecca L. Collier currently is serving as the Research Services Coordinator for History Hub and her office is located at the National Archives in College Park, MD. Prior to that, she worked in Textual Reference since 1985. Although she has knowledge about many of the records in the custody of the National Archives, she has the most expertise in 20th Century military topics, especially those pertaining to World War II and the Korean War.

Ms. Collier compiled Reference Information Paper 103, National Archives Records Relating to the Korean War which won the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) Fredric M. Miller Finding Aid Award in 2004. She coordinated the editing of NARA’s Guide to Records Relating to U.S. Military Participation in World War II which won the Society of American Archivists C.F.W. Coker Award in 2009. And she wrote the descriptive pamphlets for 13 NARA microfilm publications as part of the Holocaust-Era Assets Project from 2001 to 2010.

Ms. Collier received her M.A, in History and a Master of Accountancy from Bowling Green State University, OH, and a B.A. in History from Ohio Northern University, OH. Becky has served as Chair of the MARAC from July 2018 to June 2019.

⇒ Darren Cole is a Digital Engagement Specialist in the Web Branch of the Office of Innovation at the National Archives. In additional to providing technical and community management support for History Hub, he supports a number of online projects, including websites for Archives.gov and the National Archives Museum. He previously managed the National Archives’ “Today’s Document” project, sharing NARA holdings from today in history across multiple social media channels. In between other projects he enjoys developing animated GIFs from NARA’s wide array of holdings for the National Archives GIPHY channel.

Darren received his Ed.M. in Educational Technology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in History and English from Tufts University.

⇒ Kelly Osborn is a community manager and web developer in the National Archives' Office of Innovation. Before coming to work at NARA, she was a web developer for the publishers of The Atlantic and Science Magazine, as well as the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. She has her masters in art history from American University. The program requires two theses; the one in her area -- American art -- was on feminism and performance art.

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