User:Mckennacooper

=Mckenna Cooper, AG®=

Education and Credentials

 * Accredited Genealogist® credential through ICAPGen for research in the following testing areas: Scotland, Czechia.
 * MSc, Genealogical, Paleographic, and Heraldic Studies, University of Strathclyde (2022)
 * BA, Anthropology (Sociocultural), minors in French and Family History, BYU (2015)

Employment and Service

 * Research Specialist at Family History Library (2020-present)
 * Editor and Researcher at Legacy Tree Genealogists (2016-2020)
 * Project Coordinator at Ancestry (2016)
 * Research Assistant at BYU Family History and Genealogy Center (2014-2015)

Languages

 * Genealogical reading ability in Czech, Slovak, Hungarian, German, French, Latin.

Memberships

 * International Society for British Genealogy and Family History
 * Scottish Genealogy Society
 * Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International

Presentations at Conferences, Seminars, and Webinars

 * FamilySearch What's New in British Research Webinar (2022)
 * FamilySearch Hungarian Research Seminar (2022)
 * FamilySearch Wales Research Seminar (2022)
 * British Interest Group of Wisconsin and Illinois (2022)
 * FamilySearch English Poor Law Seminar (2022)
 * Rootstech (2022)
 * FamilySearch Czech Research Seminar (2021)
 * FamilySearch British Empire Day Research Seminar (2021)
 * FamilySearch St. George's Day Research Seminar (2021)
 * FamilySearch St. Patrick's Day Research Seminar (2021)
 * Rootstech (2021)
 * Foundation of Eastern European Family History Studies (2018, 2019)
 * BYU Family History and Genealogy Conference (2016)
 * Ogden Family History Conference (2015, 2016)

Classes and Lectures

 * What's New on ScotlandsPeople (FamilySearch 2022)
 * Reading Hungarian Parish Registers: Deaths (FamilySearch 2022)
 * Reading Hungarian Parish Registers: Marriages (FamilySearch 2022)
 * Reading Hungarian Parish Registers: Baptisms (FamilySearch 2022)
 * Welsh Placenames (FamilySearch 2022)
 * Channel Islands Research (BIGWILL 2022)
 * Pauper Apprenticeship Records (FamilySearch 2022)
 * Finding Czech Jewish Records at the National Archives (FamilySearch 2021/Rootstech 2022)
 * Reading Czech Parish Registers: Deaths (FamilySearch 2021/Rootstech 2022)
 * Reading Czech Parish Registers: Marriages (FamilySearch 2021/Rootstech 2022)
 * Reading Czech Parish Registers: Baptisms (FamilySearch 2021/Rootstech 2022)
 * Beginning Australian Research (FamilySearch 2021)
 * British South Africa (FamilySearch 2021)
 * England Research in the FamilySearch Wiki (FamilySearch 2021)
 * Key English Resources on Findmypast.com (FamilySearch 2021)
 * Irish Civil Registration (FamilySearch 2021)
 * Polish? Austrian? Czech? Making Sense of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Rootstech 2021)
 * Czech Records Part 2: Church Records and Archives (FEEFHS 2019)
 * Czech Records Part 1: Language and Grammar (FEEFHS 2019)
 * Early LDS Newspapers: an underutilized resource (Ogden 2015, 2016)
 * Introduction to Family History (BYU Conference 2015)

Blog Articles

 * Horses Not Zebras: 5 Tips for Evaluating Conflicting Evidence
 * Mapire: A Free Tool for Historical Maps of Europe
 * The Statistical Accounts of Scotland: An Essential Tool for Scottish Family History Research
 * Lesson in History: How Did We Get the 1790 U.S. Census?
 * Tracing 20th Century Immigrant Ancestors
 * The Basics of Czech Research