User:Auadams

Employment and Service

 * FamilySearch part-time Reference Consultant at the Salt Lake City Family History Library, 20 September – present
 * FamilySearch Volunteer Research Consultant for the Online International German Genealogy Conference, July 17- 24, 2021
 * Volunteer Indexer for Stolper Heimatskreise e.V., 1 May 2021 – present
 * FamilySearch Volunteer Research Consultant during Rootstech, 21 – 27 February 2021
 * Social Media Marketing Content Strategist for the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society, July 2020 – present
 * NGS Conference Blog Assistant Editor, 1 November 2019 – 1 April 2020
 * Trained Volunteer at the Family History Library from 10 April 2019 – present
 * German Research Specialist Intern at the Family History Library, 8 October 2018 – 5 April 2019
 * Taught German Paleography to Family History Volunteers, 7 November 2018 – 3 April 2019
 * FHL Temple Presidents Seminar, October 2018
 * Church Service Missionary at the Family History Library, June 2017 – October 2018
 * Facebook administrator, creator, content contributor, and strategist for the Mount Timpanogos Family History Center, American Fork, Utah, 6 September 2016 – present
 * Mount Timpanogos Family History Center Volunteer, May 2016 – June 2017
 * Ward and Temple Family History Consultant and Volunteer, October 2015 – June 2017

Education

 * Northern State University Germans from Russia Certificate. Expected completion 2022
 * BYU-Idaho Bachelor of Professional Studies. Expected graduation 2022
 * BYU-Idaho Advanced Family History Certificate. Expected completion 2022
 * BYU-Idaho Social Media Marketing Certificate. Expected completion 2022
 * BYU-Idaho Family History Certificate. Expected completion 2021
 * BYU-Idaho Associate of Science in General Studies. Completed 14 July 2021
 * Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, 20-25 June 2021
 * Utah Valley University Beginning French, Spring Semester 2021
 * Utah Valley University Historiography 3010 Fall Semester 2020
 * BYU-Pathway Worldwide September, 2017 – May 2018
 * Completed three-year apprenticeship in cosmetology in Hamburg, Germany 1989 – 1991
 * Achieved Realschulabschluß in Hamburg, Germany

Upcoming Presentations:

 * Northwest Suburban Genealogy Society, Chicago, Illinois, 6 November 2021

Past Presentations:

 * Federation of Eastern European Family History FEEFHS, Salt Lake City, Utah, 11 – 13 August 2021
 * Germans from Russia Certificate Program, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota, 1 June 2
 * Monthly Meeting, Northwest Suburban Genealogy Society, Chicago, Illinois, 6 March 2021
 * Genealogischen Online-Veranstaltungen Roland zu Dortmund e.V., 15 January 2021
 * Arbeitskreis Familienforschung Dithmarschen im Verein für Dithmarscher Landeskund e.V., Schleswig-Holstein, 21 November 2020
 * Intermountain Chapter of American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), Salt Lake City, Utah, 10 August 2020
 * American Historical Society of Germans (AHSGR), Golden Jubilee July 21 – 27, 2019
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 25 June 2019
 * German Paleography, FHL, Salt Lake City Utah, 7 November 2018 – 3 April 2019
 * Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, 26 March 2018
 * Intermountain Chapter of American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (AHSGR), 3 February 2019
 * Springville Family History Fair, Springville, Utah, 13 October 2018

Classes and Lectures

 * Silesia or Schlesien? Which is it? It’s BOTH!
 * Facebook or FamilySearch Communities? Stumped on how social media may be a benefit to your German research?
 * Das Leben in einem Deutsch-Russischen Dorf
 * Tips and Resources for German Script
 * Historians Craft (Historiography): Poles in the Ruhr Region
 * Lincoln, Nebraska: The Hub of Germans from Russia
 * FamilySearch-Fragestunde
 * Google Maps und die Erstellung von Herkunftskarten für die Ahnenforschung
 * From Addresses to Ancestors
 * Linksammlung FamilySearch-Wiki Deutschland
 * Discovering the FamilySearch Community
 * German Online Resources
 * Discovering the FamilySearch Community
 * The Hamburg Passenger Lists

FamilySearch Learning Center video courses and other Recorded Webinars

 * Discovering the FamilySearch Community
 * German Emigration Sources: Hamburg Passenger Lists

Publications

 * “Focus on Silesia.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, Volume 23, No. 1, 2 Spring – Summer 2020
 * “FamilySearch Communities How-to Guide.” Der Blumenbaum Volume 36, Number 4: April, May, June 2019, page 175
 * “Finding Ancestors in the Hamburg Passenger Lists.” Der Kurier Mid-Atlantic, Volume 37, No. 2, June 2019, pages 50-57.
 * “Twila Van Leer: Family History anchors a wanderer.” Deseret News October 18, 2016

Memberships

 * American Historical Society of Germans from Russia
 * Germanic Genealogy Society
 * Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society
 * Northwest Suburban Genealogy Society
 * Sacramento German Genealogy Society
 * San Diego Genealogical Society
 * Utah Genealogical Association