Excel for Genealogists

Presented by Mark Thompson

There is no substitute for Excel.  Sometimes the problem is too big, too complicated, or has too many moving parts to be handled in any other tool.  If only Excel could speak genealogy a bit better! 

This session will show you common genealogy challenges that are well suited to Excel and some of the most useful and efficient approaches for handling them.    Key strategies will be highlighted for dealing with the curve balls that frustrate genealogists every day in the use of Excel.

Real world genealogy challenges will be discussed, as will as a variety of approaches for dealing with them in Excel.  You will be able to immediately apply what you learn in this session to simplify your genealogy research.

At the end of this engaging session, you will be given free Excel templates to quickly get you on the right track with some of the most common uses of Excel in genealogy.