FREE WEBINAR City Directories: Much More than Ye Olde Phonebooks

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Join MyHeritage and genealogy author and expert Thomas MacEntee on Monday, April 13th at 2:00 pm EDT / 1:00 pm CDT for a Facebook LIVE session on US City Directories!

Posted By: Thomas MacEntee 22 March 2020

FREE WEBINAR City Directories: Much More than Ye Olde Phonebooks presented by Mike Mansfield and MyHeritage Webinars

FREE WEBINAR City Directories: Much More than Ye Olde Phonebooks presented by Mike Mansfield and MyHeritage Webinars

FREE WEBINAR City Directories: Much More than Ye Olde Phonebooks presented by Mike Mansfield, MyHeritage Webinars, Tuesday, March 24th, 2020, 2:00 pm Eastern / 1:00 pm Central / 12:00 pm Mountain / 11:00 am Pacific. “Learn about the fascinating details which may be hiding in your ancestors’ City Directories listings, such as addresses, names of neighbors, professions, and services provided. Advertisements from old City Directories will open the door to a wealth of information about how your ancestors lived.”

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If you CANNOT attend the live event or the webinar fills up, DON’T WORRY! You can watch the recording of City Directories: Much More than Ye Olde Phonebooks for FREE using the same registration link ABOVE through Monday, March 30th.

Presenter: Mike Mansfield

Mike Mansfield is Director of Content Operations at MyHeritage since 2013. In this role he is responsible for defining the company's strategy for growing its collection of 9.5 billion historical records, and supervising all operations of content acquisition. Previously, Mike held a Senior Product Manager role at FamilySearch. Mike's professional career has been heavily focused in electronic publishing, search and retrieval, and content acquisition and strategy. After completing his B.S. in Computer Science at Brigham Young University in 1994 he worked for Folio Corporation, a Provo, Utah based technology company which developed cutting edge CD- ROM publication and search technology. Mike joined Ancestry in 1999 and held key rolls in its development of the search engine and publication platform still in use today. As the Senior Director of Search and Content he led the team that created the record Hinting system which helped to revolutionize the way in which users interact with online genealogical records. Mike continued to develop his expertise in his roles in FamilySearch and MyHeritage.

Mike Mansfield works for MyHeritage.com as the Director of Content Operations. Previously Mike has worked for Ancestry.com and FamilySearch and has been active in the genealogy and family history domain for the last 20 years. Mike has presented at numerous genealogical conferences and symposia in the United States, England, Scandinavia, and Australia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from BYU and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Syracuse University.

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Thomas MacEntee
Genealogy educator and author Thomas MacEntee has been researching his family history for more than 40 years and is the creator of Abundant Genealogy, Genealogy Bargains, DNA Bargains, The Genealogy Do-Over and numerous other web-based genealogy and family history properties.