Actifit: October 19 2019- Genealogy Roadshow
My genealogy group, the Western Montana Genealogy Society, held a free event on Saturday! We did a Genealogy Roadshow where people could come and work with one of our members to get help researching their family.
We had a full house for most of the 4 hours, with a steady trickle of people coming in to see us!
Each attendee got 15-20 minutes with one of the volunteers. And once the lines had calmed down, some folks got 45 or more minutes to work with someone.
It was a very good test run of the idea for my group and we plan to travel to a few underserved towns in the region and do this again!
After the cleanup was done, I headed home to have a relaxing afternoon with @lordvdr and the cats. I head to Cincinnati on Monday morning and need to pack and do laundry today. 
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It's great that you help others with their genealogy works. It must be different in the US than here in Germany. Even today a lot of people don't live far from their place of birth and the registers in churches go way back.
But I remember how stumped my father was when he looked into his family's past. First wasn't difficult because they owned the same farm for centuries, but in 1770 a guy married the only daughter there who popped up from nowhere. To make it worse though there were three documents about him, his surname was written in three different ways (the last one is still the family name).
This was in the 80ies, before the internet. So he wrote to the parishes in the surrounding areas, one township after the other. And he got lucky - only 20 km away in a village one of the names was well known. It was on several of the inscriptions on the gable walls of the traditional half-timbered houses and one of them still belonged to the same family (well, more or less). And, as fate would have it, someone already had done the genealogy of this homestead. So my father got nearly 200 years of family history on some photocopied pages, dating back to "around 1595" :)
And now all the copies and the extracts from the church records and the civil registration offices are in a big envelope deep in my bookcase...
Nice thay he was able to find that info! So many families in the US are highly migratory so the are very few folks who can trace a local connection back further than 3 generations. Then you have to figure out where they were back east. And then back to Europe usually.
It can be a real mystery sometimes. And someone we get lucky and find someone like you who has done the research on your side!
1595! It is amazing that you got back that far! I have a French line we got back to around 1520 but that was research my Great Aunt did before WW2 and I think the documentation is probably lost now.
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I wasn't sure how well attended the event would be. Sounds like it was fairly busy.