Program October 21, 2026 7 pm.
Via Zoom with a watch party at Grace A Dow Library Genealogy Room
The Overland Trails: Westward Migration in the 19th Century
Your ancestors went west for many reasons: opportunity, land, and promise. Learn about the overland trails that many of them used to head west. This session will help you understand what your ancestors experienced along the way and how you can discover them in the records they left behind. what they experienced along the way and how you can discover your pioneer ancestors in the records they left behind.
Amber Oldenburg is a genealogist, lecturer, and social media manager with a degree in Family History Research from Brigham Young University-Idaho. She currently serves as an online instructor in the Family History Research program at BYU-Idaho. She specializes in United States Midwest research and is currently working toward professional accreditation with the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists in the Great Lakes region. When she is not working on family history, Amber can be found traveling the county with her family, exploring archives and cemeteries, or reading a historical monograph.
