Present Profile: Drew Smith

Drew Smith, MLS, is the Information Literacy Librarian at the University of South Florida Tampa Library. Prior to his current position, he was an instructor for the USF School of Library and
Information Science for more than 12 years, and earlier worked for academic computing departments at the University of South Florida and Clemson University. He is Secretary of the Association of Professional Genealogists, a Director of the Federation of Genealogical Societies (and editor of its new blog, the FGS Voice), and President of the Florida Genealogical Society of Tampa. He has been the co-host of the Genealogy Guys Podcast since September 2005. Smith is author of the book Social Networking for Genealogists, published in 2009 by Genealogical Publishing Company.

Drew is teaching "Social Networking for Genealogists" Saturday at 11am,

Presenter Profile: Diane Loosle, A.G., C.G.

Diane C. Loosle, is an Accredited Genealogist^SM and a Certified Genealogist^®. She has a Bachelors degree in History with an emphasis in Family History and Genealogy and a Masters of Business Administration. She has worked at the Family History Library for the past sixteen years as a British Reference Consultant, British Reference Unit Supervisor, Customer Experience Manager and is currently the FamilySearch Genealogical Community Services Manager.

Diane’s research passions include English and Scottish research with special interest in land and court records. Diane enjoys camping, hiking, biking and traveling.

NGS Classes:

1)Thursday, 29 April 2010 in the "British Isles" track at 4 pm

FamilySearch's Toools and Resources for the United Kingdom and Ireland

2)Friday, 30 April 2010 in the "GenTech" track at 2:30 pm

FamilySearch Research Tools for Genealogists