Annette Burke Lyttle owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She loves helping people uncover and share their family stories. Annette speaks on a variety of genealogical topics at the national, state, and local levels. She has a master’s degree in English and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Genealogical Speakers Guild, as well as a number of national, state, and local societies. Annette has been researching her family on and off since high school, and she has been a full-time genealogist since 2012. Her genealogical education has included the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, the ProGen Study Group, and the National Genealogical Society Quarterly Study Group.
Biography Annette Burke Lyttle owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. She loves helping people uncover and share their family stories. Annette speaks on a variety of genealogical topics at the national, state, and local levels. She has a master’s degree in English and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and is a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Genealogical Speakers Guild, as well as a number of national, state, and local societies. Annette has been researching her family on and off since high school, and she has been a full-time genealogist since 2012. Her genealogical education has included the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, the ProGen Study Group, and the National Genealogical Society Quarterly Study Group.
Lecture Topics Research Methods
Genealogical Proof for the Everyday Genealogist
Timelines: A Path to Your Next Research Steps
How Research Plans Can Up Your Genealogical Game
Prospecting for Family History in Unexpected Places
Reconstructing Our Family Stories
Chasing Uncle William Through the Wilds of Cyberspace
Reconstructing the Lives of Our Farming Ancestors
What is Social History and Why Should a Genealogist Care?
How Advertising Brought Our Ancestors to the Midwest
Blacksmiths and Their Contribution to the Nation’s Development
Vintage Cookbooks as Genealogical Resources
Writing Our Family Stories
Turn Family History Facts into Stories You Can Share
How to Blog Your Family Stories the Easy Way
Resources
Find Your Family History in Free Online Newspapers
Probate Records: Wills and a Whole Lot More
Bounty Land: Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
Migration
The Marriage of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Opening of the Midwest
Exodusters: The Exodus of Freedmen to Kansas in the 1870s
The National Road: America’s First Federal Highway
Genealogical Education
Free Online Genealogical Education
Your Education Plan for Going Pro
Quakers
Our Quaker Ancestors: Their History and the Records They Left
Slavery, Quakers, and the Underground Railroad
Military
Beyond the Records: Putting Flesh on the Bones of Your Civil War Ancestor
What Did You Do in the War, Granny? Women in the Army in World War II
Previous Speaking Engagements Legacy Family Tree Webinars
Citrus County (FL) Genealogical Society
Pasco County (FL) Genealogical Society
The Villages (FL) Genealogical Society
Kinseekers (Leesburg, FL) Genealogical Society
The Villages (FL) Genealogical Society, German SIG
Genealogy Society of Southeast Volusia County
Ohio Genealogical Society Conference
South Bay (FL) Genealogical Society
National Genealogical Society Conference
Florida State Genealogical Society Webinar
Marion County (FL) Genealogical Society
Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree
Savant Capital Clients Meeting
Georgia Genealogical Society Webinar
Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Webinar
Minnesota Genealogical Society Webinar (September)
Halifax (FL) Genealogical Society (September)
Iroquois County (IL) Genealogical Society Annual Meeting (November)
Central Florida Family History Conference (November)
Indian River (FL) Genealogical Society (November)
Pinellas (FL) Genealogical Society (November)
Citrus County (FL) Genealogical Society
Legacy Family Tree Webinars
Kinseekers (Leesburg, FL) Genealogical Society
Marion County (FL) Genealogical Society
Florida State Genealogical Society Webinar
Tree Climbers (Del Webb Spruce Creek, FL)
Minnesota Genealogical Society Webinar
National Genealogical Society Conference
The Villages (FL) Genealogical Society, Italian SIG
Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree
Jamboree Webinar
The Villages (FL) Genealogical Society
Researching Family in Pennsylvania
Ontario Genealogical Society Webinar
Wisconsin State Genealogical Society Webinar
Pinellas (FL) Genealogical Society
Houston (TX) Genealogical Forum
Martin County (FL) Genealogical Society
Halifax (FL) Genealogical Society
