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Spreadsheets 101 – Excel-lence in Genealogy (BONUS webinar for subscribers)

Mary Kircher Roddy, CG
Feb 24, 2015
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Are you afraid of spreadsheets because you don’t know how or where to start? Or are you comfortable with spreadsheets but know there’s a trick or two still to learn? In this webinar, Mary Kircher Roddy will get beginners up to speed, and share with experienced users tricks she’s learned in more than 25 years of spreadsheet use as an accountant, writer and genealogist.

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Mary Kircher Roddy, CG
Mary Kircher Roddy, CG became interested in family history in 2000 in anticipation of her husband’s sabbatical at the University of Limerick in Ireland. While she didn’t learn everything about her ancestors while they lived there, she was hooked!
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    I LOVE using spreadsheets for my research. The majority of the custom icons on My Toolbar are to a spreadsheet.

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    Excellent! Just what I needed! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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