Seminars and Conferences
Member Societies' Seminars and Conferences Registration Forms
Listed are seminars annd conferences sponsored by the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies and Member Societies. Click on a listing below for the information and registation forms.
4 October 2025
Society Management Workshop (SMW) by Zoom
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The Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies invites all member societies to attend our next Society Management Workshop (SMW) on the morning of Saturday, October 4, 2025.
Topics and speakers will be announced once survey results are reviewed. This free Zoom workshop is designed to support your officers, committee members, and chairs with practical tools and inspiration for society success.
Our goal is 100+ attendees — help us reach it!
Please share this event with your board and membership.
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15 November 2025
COPalAm 2025 SPRING SEMINAR
Here is the seminar flyer and regristration form.
1. Maximizing Research Success in the Arolsen Archives
2. Eastern European Genealogy for Beginners
3. Tracing your Dutch Roots
4. How to Get your Family Engaged in your Research
About Alex:
Alexander Tolksdorf is a genealogist and speaker, specializing in German, Dutch, and Eastern European research. He began his personal journey in high school, inspired by a trip to Ellis Island and through a correspondence with his great uncle in `Germany, who also was an active family historian. All four of his grandparents immigrated to the United States in the 1950s following the Second World War; as such, the majority of his research experience and focus is in European sources. Paternally, his family is German, primarily from the Prussian provinces of Westphalia, Posen, and East Prussia. Maternally, his family roots are Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Lithuanian. Thus far, Alex has uncovered and actively researches family lines in Ukraine, Germany, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, and Russia.
Through this work, he has become very comfortable with research in these counties; including overcoming the language barriers, lack of online record access, and lost or missing records. He relies on civil, church, and a plethora of other records for his research, and finds that all provide illumination and the tools to break down brick walls. Alex believes that standard records only tell part of the story, with the many additional forms of documentation providing color and texture to a family history.
Alex enjoys his work as a financial analyst at the Ford Motor Company and is a former President of the Ford Genealogy Club. He is also active in the Ukrainian American community of Metro Detroit, serving as a former treasurer of the Ukrainian Graduates of Detroit and Windsor, the treasurer and circulation manager of the Detroitski Novyny, the local community newspaper, the chairperson of the Supervisory Committee of the Ukrainian Selfreliance Michigan Federal Credit Union, and a board member of the Ukrainian American Archives and Museum. During his spare time when he is not researching, Alex enjoys walking and exercising with his wife, Katelyn, and their dog, as well as working on his car, a 2014 Ford Mustang GT.Alex is an Accredited Genealogist (AG®), credentialed by the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists (ICAPGen℠) for the Germany – East region.
Non-Member Societies' Seminars and Workshops Registration Forms
Listed are seminars sponsored by non-members of the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies and Member Societies. Click on a listing below for the information and registation form.
No Non-member Scheduled Seminars.