WORTHY OF MORE THAN JUST A FLYOVER

The Midwest encompasses eleven states and nearly seventy million people with an innumerable amount of archives. From federal, state, local, and university archives the large number of places to find records can be overwhelming to the family historian. This session will explore the vast number of archives found within the Midwest while highlighting select records found within these archives.

Amber Oldenburg is a genealogist, lecturer, and social media manager with a degree in Family History Research from Brigham Young University-Idaho. She currently serves as an online instructor in the Family History Research program at BYU-Idaho. She specializes in United States Midwest research and is currently working toward professional accreditation with the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists in the Great Lakes region. When she is not working on family history, Amber can be found traveling the county with her family, exploring archives and cemeteries, or reading a historical monograph.