I am available for lectures, workshops, guest lectures, webinars, conferences, and retreats. Email me at colleen.e.greene@gmail.com to discuss availability and rates.
Don’t see what you are looking for? I am happy to discuss customizing a lecture or workshop to fit your specific needs. Email me at colleen.e.greene@gmail.com.
Interested in attending one of my classes? Visit my Speaking & Teaching Schedule.
Genealogy Instruction
I am passionate about teaching people how to research their family history, tell their family stories, and discover tools that help with both.
Genealogy Lectures
Lectures Focusing on Hispanic Research
- The American Southwest: Digitized Collections & Archival Finding Aids
- Getting to Know Mexican Church & Civil Registration Records
- An Introduction to Researching Your Mexican Ancestors
- An Introduction to Researching Hispanic Ancestry
- Social History: Painting a Bigger Picture of Your Hispanic Ancestors’ Lives
- The Suspect Centenarian: Using a Common U.S. Source to Build an Immigrant Life Story
- Working More In-Depth with Mexican Civil Registration Records
- Working More In-Depth with Mexican Parish Registrations
- Your 19th & 20th Century Mexican Ancestors in the U.S. (available as of March 2020)
Lectures Focusing on Tech & Social Media
- Branding and Customizing PowerPoint Templates for Your Genealogy Business or Society (available February 2020)
- Cloud Computing for Genealogy: Applications, Strategies, and Workflows
- Creating Accessible Digital Content for Your Genealogy Storytelling, Society, or Business
- Designing with Canva for Your Genealogy, Society, or Business
(available March 2020) - Evernote for Genealogy Research
- Facebook for Genealogy
- An Overview of Cloud Computing for Genealogy
- Using Snagit for Genealogy Visual Storytelling & Instruction
(available March 2020) - Using Zotero to Organize Your Genealogy Research or Teaching Materials
Lectures Focusing on General Topics
- After the Fire: Reconstructing a World War I or II Military Service Record
- An Introduction to Researching African American Family History
- Researching Your U.S. Military Veteran Ancestor
- The Suspect Centenarian: Using a Common U.S. Source to Build an Immigrant Life Story
Lectures Focusing on Libraries, Archives & Online Repositories
- The Academic Library: An Untapped Resource for Family History Research
- The American Southwest: Digitized Collections & Archival Finding Aids
- Golden State Ancestors: Calisphere, the Online Archive of California, and the California Digital Newspaper Collection
- JSTOR: An Academic Powerhouse for Family History Research
(available March 2020) - Utilizing the Digital Public Library of America & the HathiTrust for Family History Research
Lectures Focusing on DNA
- A Crash Course in Using DNA to Discover Your Ancestry
- What DNA Can Tell You About Your Family History
- Who, What, Why, Where, and How: DNA for Family History Research
Genealogy Workshops
- Creating Family History Videos for Free with Adobe Spark
(available March 2020) - Creating Accessible Digital Content for Your Storytelling, Society, or Business
(extended version) - Designing with Canva for Your Family History, Society, or Business
(extended version) - Strategies for Finding and Analyzing Mexican Church and Civil Registration Records
Online Courses
- A Seminar in U.S. Genealogy and Genealogy Librarianship
(semester-long, 10 or 16 week format)
Academic Instruction
Many of my instructional offerings can be customized as guest lectures or workshops for your college courses, further developing your students’ information and digital literacy skills. I am happy to map these to your assignment or course learning outcomes.
These can be taught in-person to Southern California institutions, or taught online via web conference software or recorded videos.
These lectures and workshops are particularly applicable to the following disciplines: History, Chicano Studies, Latin American Studies, African American Studies, and American Studies.