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 Admin, 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 end of 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 2021

•	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 2019

•	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

•	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