Lisa Schumacher began working on her family history 30 years ago with an interest in computer programs for genealogical research. She is a professional genealogist and lecturer, member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Mayflower Society, and board member of South Bay Cities Genealogical Society. The society's version of "Who Do You Think You Are?" for the 2012 Torrance Centennial Celebration was her most rewarding and memorable accomplishment as a genealogist.

Sara Cochran has conducted genealogical research for over 25 years in nearly every state of the USA, plus Ireland, Italy, Austria, and Britain. She holds a Boston University Genealogical Research Certificate, a BS in Library Science and is an alumnus of the ProGen Study Group. She began her career as a professional genealogist in 2016. Sara is currently the treasurer of the Southern California Chapter of the Association of Professional Genealogists, the Registrar for the Aurantia Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Secretary of the Amanda Stokes Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and volunteers at the National Archives, Riverside.

Mr. Gostin has been conducting genealogical research since 1980, and has worked as a full-time professional genealogist since 1994.  He has twice been President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles, and has taught genealogy at several adult school and university extension programs. He has helped plan and organize three national genealogical seminars, and was a featured speaker at several conferences. He lectures widely on Jewish genealogy. Southern California resources plus naturalization and immigration records. Mr. Gostin is the author of Southern California Vital Statistics: Volume 1, Los Angeles County 1850-1859, and the owner of Generations Press publishing company.  He was featured on the Larry Lamb episode of the original UK version of the popular genealogy television show Who Do You Think You Are?  He is very active in the international Jewish genealogical community, and maintains contact with genealogists throughout the world.

​Dr. Fitzpatrick, the founder of Identifinders International, is widely recognized as the founder of modern forensic genealogy.  She has investigated numerous cold case homicides for law enforcement using genetic genealogy analysis.  She is Co-Executive Director of the DNA Doe Project (DDP), applying autosomal SNP analysis to the identification of a John or Jane Doe, sometimes decades old.  Her collaborations include the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, the US Army Casualty and Mortuary Affairs Office, the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, the University of Arizona. Harvard Medical School and other noted professional organizations.  She is an Associate Member of the American Academy of Forensic Science (AAFS).

About the Program
The 1940 US Census opened in 2012 without a name index.  A FamilySearch-led consortium used 160,000 volunteers to name index that census in five months. In addition, Joel Weintraub and Steve Morse, over seven years, with about 125 volunteers, developed free utilities to find which of 150,000 census districts a person was in, when a location or address was known.  These projects are examples of crowdsourcing.  Steve and Joel are now doing a similar project for the 1950 census.  Joel will discuss differences between the volunteer response, Yahoo Group site, cloud storage, software, One-Step utilities, and project phases.