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Researching Online Update for 2025: New Sources or Verifying Your Old-Time/PreInternet Research: New Ideas & Reminders for both Experienced & Entry Level Family Historians
Are you looking to improve those genealogy research skills? If so, please join professional genealogist Peg Kapustiak as she shares her research skills and latest updates in the genealogy field. Presentation open to the experienced and beginner genealogy enthusiasts.
Bio:
Margaret (Peg) Kapustiak’s presentations are designed to provide you with extremely practical tips and ideas. Each handout has detailed tips, links & sources to help you. Peg has been a Florida resident in Venice since 2011, where her family has lived or annually visited since 1982. She is a seventh generation Illinoisan whose “first settlers” family have lived in southern Chicago and those suburban areas since 1832. Peg has been a Genealogist/Family Historian for 47 years and has researched her family history in the Chicago area, the Midwest, New England, and New York state plus ten countries in Europe and Asia, when she lived overseas. In the past 25 years she has provided over 190 talks on history and genealogy topics both nationally and Internationally. She is the author of one book and 56 research articles.
She has served as President or on the Boards of Directors of 13 different professional or historical/genealogical organizations, both in the United States and Internationally and currently volunteers for five historical/genealogical organizations: Historic Spanish Point Campus of Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Osprey, Fl; Venice Museum & Archives, Venice Fl; South Suburban Genealogical and Historical Society, Hazel Crest, Ill.; Tinley Moraine Genealogists (Illinois) and Hazelgreen Cemetery Assoc., Alsip, Illinois. She is a member of the DAR, Myakka Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Venice.
She lived in London, England for 5 years and also in Hong Kong in China & then Singapore in Asia for 4 years. She worked as a Health Care Executive for over 20 years, prior to moving to England, and was an Instructor at Northern Illinois University for five semesters teaching courses in both Management and on Global Hunger, prior to moving to Hong Kong. She has both an undergraduate and a Master’s Degree from the University of Wisconsin. She is married with three children and three grandchildren. Her relaxation is native plant and butterfly gardening
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