This webinar will discuss bringing together genealogical sources to track people living in cities. We will combine details from census records, city directories, deeds, newspapers, and maps to illuminate your ancestor and their neighborhood FAN club. We will also look at other resources you should search for beyond these basics of urban research.

Or speaker, Jessica Fontana, is a genealogist with nearly twenty years of experience, and a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. She previously worked as a researcher for Ancestry ProGenealogists and now has her own consulting business. She specializes in U.S. research, with experience in the Southern, Midwest, Great Lakes, and Mid-Atlantic regions, as well as African America family history. She is a member of the Minnesota based Early Midwest Black Heritage Group; this collective are researching the state's early Black pioneers (1840s-1900s). She also works on U.S. immigrant families from Germany, Luxembourg, and Hungary; as well as work focused on dual-citizenship applications in Luxembourg.

The Webinar will be recorded and available on the CGS website in the members only section.

Registration is required via the Chicago Genealogical Society website under Events. Registration will close 1 hour prior to the event. The meet-up will take place virtually via ZOOM. All people registered will receive an email the morning of the event with log-in instructions and a link. This information is not to be shared.

Note: This webinar is FREE for CGS members. Non-Members can register for the event for $10. No refunds.