{"id":10197,"date":"2024-07-01T00:46:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T00:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/?p=10197"},"modified":"2024-07-01T00:46:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T00:46:39","slug":"miles-meyer-to-present-at-the-society-of-genealogists-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/miles-meyer-to-present-at-the-society-of-genealogists-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Miles Meyer to Present at the Society of Genealogists Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sog.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Society of Genealogists<\/a>, based in London, has announced its lineup of online presenters for July. We are excited to note that Miles Meyer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/about-assoc.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Director of Education<\/a> for The Family History Guide, will be presenting on July 13. His topic is &#8220;Mining U.S. Census Records for Family History.&#8221; Here&#8217;s an overview of the presentation, from the <a href=\"https:\/\/members.sog.org.uk\/events\/659580d162761e000870e89e\/description?ticket=659580d162761e000870e8a0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Society of Genealogists website<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The British genealogist may be very familiar with the U.K. census returns, but cross the Atlantic and the census returns for the United States of America are a bit different.<\/p>\n<p>The\u202fU.S.\u202fcensus\u202fhas changed greatly since\u202fthe\u202ffirst one was performed in 1790. This\u202fpresentation\u202fwill discuss how\u202fthe\u202fcensus\u202fhas changed from 1790 to 1950,\u202fprovide an explanation of\u202fthe\u202fdata that is available in \u202fthe \u202fvarious \u202fcensus \u202frecords and how to develop that into a timeline which can be used to write a narrative for a family.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Miles has also presented at RootsTech in 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, as well as RootsTech London in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sog1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sog1.png 678w, https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/sog1-253x300.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society of Genealogists, based in London, has announced its lineup of online presenters for July. We are excited to note that Miles Meyer, Director of Education for The Family History Guide, will be presenting on July 13. His topic is &#8220;Mining U.S. Census Records for Family History.&#8221; Here&#8217;s an overview of the presentation, from the Society of Genealogists website:&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,88,11],"tags":[26,556],"class_list":["post-10197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rootstech","category-the-family-history-guide-association","category-trackers","tag-presentations","tag-society-of-genealogists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10200,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10197\/revisions\/10200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefhguide.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}