“Heritage Quest Online Part 1: U.S. Revolutionary War Pension Records – Family History Update Webinar”
Donald R. Snow
10/13/21
Categories: RR, IR
Talk Abstract:
HeritageQuest Online (HQO) is a website that is free through libraries by using your library card bar code. It has many family history reocrds and can be used at home or anywhere you can get to the internet. This class discuss the U.S. Revolutionary War Pension files it has, what these are, how to search them, and how to download or do screenshots of what you want. Other classes will deal with other family history information that HQO contains. The notes for this class, with active links and related articles, are posted on my website https://uvtagg.org/classes/dons/dons-classes.html.
Speaker Bio:
Don is a Californian by birth, with Snow ancestors from Southern Utah. He is a retired Professor of Mathematics from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and has lived in several foreign countries, both for mathematics and church assignments. After retiring from the BYU Math Faculty, he and his now deceased wife Diane Snow who taught Humanities at BYU, served four Family History missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These included being Directors of the New York Family History Center in Manhattan, in the Illinois Nauvoo Mission on a FH project ( http://earlylds.com ), and in the London England Family History Centre in the Hyde Park Chapel. Don served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Utah Genealogical Association, where he was the Host of the online UGA Virtual Chapter Meetings, and has been a VP of the Utah Valley Technology and Genealogy Group since the early 1990’s. He is a frequent speaker at FH venues and loves teaching and playing his accordion. He has 6 children and 30 grandchildren. His FH class schedule and notes are posted on his webpage.
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