Ron Arons

Over the past twenty years, Ron Arons has given more than 500 presentations on researching criminals, technology, and research methodology. He worked in a marketing capacity for many successful high-tech firms and continues to geek out with new and old technologies. He is the author of three books, including The Jews of Sing Sing and Mind Maps for Genealogy. Ron earned a BS in Engineering from Princeton and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

September 2, 2023
Hybrid Meeting and Webinar

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The Library opens at 9:00 am for in-person attendees.

10:10 AM - Finding Living People on the Internet

This talk will cover, by example, the multitude of categories of websites that can be used to track down or simply discover living relatives. Beyond Google, websites discussed will fall into the following categories: professions, people directories, court and other government records, 'aggregation' websites, and, of course, social networking websites. Furthermore, he will show that, by using these websites together, their synergies can provide even more fantastic search results.

11:20 AM - What's in a Name? Trouble!

Ron will use the Genealogical Proof Standard to show how identities can be merged and separated. In this example, five individuals, all with the same name, all born in the same general timeframe, and all living in the same place where one of the individuals lived or claimed to live, all found trouble, either in business or with women. Is this possible? If so, how? It defies probability and statistics. A fun set of stories about multiple unrelated men who just happened to share the same name and fate (trouble). A great demonstration of the Genealogical Proof Standard in action.

 

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