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[image: Logotransparent] Join us and James M. Beidler for the live webinar Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 8pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. *Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day.* Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion. *Download the syllabus* In preparation for the webinar, download the supplemental syllabus materials here <http://familytreewebinars.com/webinar_details.php?webinar_id=348>. 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Webinar Subscribers <http://legacy.familytreewebinars.com/memberships-c11.php> have unlimited access to all webinar recordings for the duration of their membership. *[image: JamesBeidler-144x144] <http://news.legacyfamilytree.com/.a/6a00d8341d219b53ef01bb0941d9f6970d-pi>About the presenter* James M. Beidler is the author of *The Family Tree German Genealogy Book*,* Trace Your German Roots Online,* as well as writes Roots & Branches <http://roots-branches.com/>, an award-winning weekly newspaper column on genealogy that is the only syndicated feature on that topic in Pennsylvania. He is also a columnist for German Life magazine <http://germanlife.com/> and is editor of *Der Kurier*, the quarterly journal of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society <http://www.magsgen.com/>. He was the President of the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors <http://www.isfhwe.org/>from 2010 to 2012, and is the former Executive Director for the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania <http://genpa.org/>. He served as national co-chairman for the 2008 Federation of Genealogical Societies <http://www.fgs.org/> conference in Philadelphia. Beidler is also frequent contributor to other periodicals ranging from scholarly journals such as *The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine <http://genpa.org/publications/pennsylvania-genealogical-magazine>* to popular-interest magazines such as*Ancestry Magazine <http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/magazines/default.aspx>* and *Family Tree Magazine <http://www.familytreemagazine.com/>*. He also wrote the chapter on genealogy for*Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth <http://www.amazon.com/Pennsylvania-Commonwealth-Randall-M-Miller/dp/0271022140>*, published jointly by the Penn State Press <http://www.psupress.org/>and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission <http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/phmc_home/1426>. As a lecturer, he was a part of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council's <http://www.pahumanities.org/> acclaimed Commonwealth Speakers program from 2002 to 2009, and has been a presenter at numerous conferences. In addition to being a member of numerous genealogical, historical, and lineage societies, Beidler also sits on Pennsylvania's State Historic Records Advisory Board <http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/state_historical_records_advisory_board/14593> as well as the selection committee for the Pennsylvania Digital Newspaper Project <https://secureapps.libraries.psu.edu/content/PaNP/PaNP/>. He is a Senior Tax Advisor for an H&R Block <http://www.hrblock.com/> franchise and previously was a copy editor for 15 years for *The Patriot-News <http://www.patriotnews.com/>* newspaper in Harrisburg, PA. Beidler was born in Reading, PA, and raised in nearby Berks County <http://www.co.berks.pa.us/Pages/default.aspx>, where he currently resides and is an eighth-generation member of Bern Reformed United Church of Christ <http://bernreformeducc.org/>. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hofstra University <http://www.hofstra.edu/home/> in Long Island, NY, with a BA in Political Science in 1982. *Add it to your Google Calendar* With our Google Calendar button, you will never forget our upcoming webinars. Simply click the button to add it to your calendar. You can then optionally embed the webinar events (and even turn them on and off) into your own personal calendar. 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