How to Do Everything™: Genealogy

George G. Morgan is an internationally recognized genealogical expert, lecturer, and consultant. He is president of Aha! Seminars, Inc., a Florida-based company providing continuing education to librarians in the United States and genealogical presentations to societies in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere. He also has led genealogy tours to the United Kingdom and has spoken on several genealogy cruises. He presents face-to-face at conferences and seminars and delivers live webinars via GoToMeeting^® and Skype^®.

He is the author of ten books, including the first and second editions of The Official Guide to Ancestry.com (Ancestry Publishing), and the first, second, and third editions of this book. He has written literally hundreds of magazine, journal, and online articles on the subject of genealogy. His articles have appeared in every major genealogical magazine in North America, including Family Chronicle, Internet Genealogy, Ancestry Magazine, the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, the Federation of Genealogy Societies’ FORUM, and others. His online articles available on the Internet number in the thousands. His published interviews have appeared on the Internet, in Reader’s Digest and Woman’s Day magazines, and in other media.

George is the co-host, with his partner Drew Smith, of The Genealogy Guys Podcast, the longest-running genealogy podcast in the world, published at http://genealogyguys.com. The two also have appeared in genealogical videos and in numerous online podcast interviews.

He is currently the vice president of Membership for the Federation of Genealogical Societies. He is the past president of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors (ISFHWE), a former director of the Genealogical Speakers Guild, is past public relations/publicity director of the Florida State Genealogical Society, and past director of the Florida Genealogical Society (Tampa). He belongs to a number of other genealogical societies in the United States and the United Kingdom.

George has won a number of awards, including the Genealogy Outstanding Achievement Award and the President’s Citation from the Florida State Genealogical Society, the Award of Merit and the Certificate of Merit from the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the Excellence in Writing Award from ISFHWE, and a certificate of appreciation from the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Florida, among others.

Morgan’s How to Do Everything™: Genealogy is a best seller in the McGraw-Hill catalog and has consistently won critical acclaim from reviewers and readers alike as the best genealogy “how-to” book published in the past 25 years.

Drew Smith, MLS, is an academic librarian with the University of South Florida in Tampa, and a nationally known genealogy writer and speaker. He is the author of the landmark book, Social Networking for Genealogists (Genealogical Publishing Company, 2009). Since it began in September 2005, he has co-hosted The Genealogy Guys Podcast with George G. Morgan. He is a Director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies, the President of the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa, Secretary for the Association of Professional Genealogists, and Parliamentarian for the Florida State Genealogical Society. He is the founder and long-time administrator of the GENEALIB mailing list, a preeminent communication tool among genealogical librarians and archivists in the United States and abroad since 1996. He has written numerous articles for popular genealogical magazines, including NGS Magazine, Digital Genealogist, and Genealogical Computing, and is the editor of the Federation of Genealogical Societies’ Voice newsletter and a contributor to its blog.