TxSGS 2018 Speaker Spotlight – Carl Smith

We are thrilled to introduce you to one of the dynamic speakers teaching at our 2018 Family History Conference in San Antonio on November 2-4, 2018. Register online now!

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About the Speaker

For the past 3 years Carl Smith has taught dozens of workshops on family history to hundreds of residents and researchers, covering such topics as beginning genealogical research, using family history websites and databases, researching ancestors from Scandinavia and other geographic regions in Europe, and research fundamentals to name a few. For the 2018 TxSGS Conference, Carl illuminates the roles that epidemics and disease played in history and our family trees. For those needing help in organizing the ever-proliferating digital files and photos, Carl leads a workshop on archiving family history using metadata.

Carl has been interested in family history since his youth, growing up listening to family stories from his parents and grandparents and looking through old family photos. He has been extensively involved in genealogical research since 2008, specializing in the areas of Scandinavian, 19th and 20th century United States, and Latin American research. Carl is currently the Genealogy Librarian for the Montgomery County Memorial Library System and head of the Genealogy and Local History Department. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Family History – Genealogy from Brigham Young University, and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University.

Learn more about Carl’s on the conference speakers page and his presentation on the conference topics page.

Register for the conference and Carl’s workshop.

Carl’s Topic:

• Kin Killers: Epidemics & Diseases in Your Family Tree – Friday, 5:00 p.m; Methodology

Carl’s Workshop:

• Workshop: Anything I Can Do, You Can Do Meta: Metadata & Digital
  Archiving of Your Family History – Saturday, 1:30 p.m. (optional; limited seating; reservations required; $30 fee)