

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Finding What You Need and Making the Most of What You Find
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Please join us on Thursday, February 5 at 7 pm for "Finding What You Need and Making the Most of What You Find " presented by Pam Vestal, professional genealogist and speaker. With so much information available to us today, it can be hard to know how to find what we seek, or what to do with it after we've found it. Discover an assortment of techniques that can help you search the internet more successfully, extract those useful genealogical nuggets from your documents, organize what you've found, and evaluate your evidence. We'll look at tools for locating overlooked records, understanding codes in documents, recovering missing websites, finding evidence of name changes, and much more.  
The speaker will present via Zoom, so please join us to view her program at South Hills School of Business and Technology in State College. The meeting is free and open to the public. As a benefit of membership, members will be emailed a Zoom link for the option to view the meeting remotely. Everyone is welcome to join the Society to enjoy this benefit.
Bio: Pam Vestal is a professional genealogist and speaker who turned her focus to her longtime love of genealogy after a 20-year writing career. Her articles have appeared in the National Genealogical Society Magazine and The Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly, and her lectures take her from coast to coast. Pam specializes in conducting genealogical research and then transforming that information into illustrated stories that even non-genealogists can enjoy.
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- **Event Categories**: meetups
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: State College
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: South Hills School of Business and Technology - State College
- **lat**: 40.77527
- **long**: -77.8554599
- **full address**: South Hills School of Business and Technology - State College, 480 Waupelani Dr,State College, Pennsylvania, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Centre County Genealogical Society (https://allevents.in/org/centre-county-genealogical-society/6621817)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** South Hills School of Business and Technology - State College, 480 Waupelani Dr,State College, Pennsylvania, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Centre County Genealogical Society
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** meetups
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Finding What You Need and Making the Most of What You Find ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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