About the Speaker:

Linda Debe is a lecturer, writer, and lifelong student with 40 years of genealogy experience.

She is affectionately referred to as the Sleepless Genealogist and has a website of the same name. Linda has many genealogy passions, with maps and deeds at the top of the list, and technology running a close second. Since becoming Microsoft Office certified in Access and Excel, she applies her training to assist others with their genealogy research. Her motto is work smarter, not harder, and using technology allows her to do that. She loves creating spreadsheets to analyze her research.

Linda presents at various library and genealogical society events across the US.

She holds an AAS degree in Electronics Technology from the United States Air Force. She is an alum of Pro Gen 54. She expects to graduate from the International Institute for Genealogical Studies in 2026.

Linda is the current Program Chair for the North Hills Genealogists in Pittsburgh and leads their Technology SIG. She is a member of several state and local genealogical societies in the various states she researches in.

Highlights of her speaking engagements:

She will be a speaker at Rootstech 2026. In 2025, she presented at the UGA Summit of excellence on Native American Rolls, and was a guest lecturer for three IGHR classes in Course 4- Unearthing Your Family’s Past Using Maps.

In 2024, the Georgia State Archives invited her to speak for their Inaugural Native American Symposium; and she was a course coordinator/lecturer with the Applied Genealogy Institute on Native American Records.

Back in 2021, Linda lectured at RootsTech and had an article published in the Kentucky Blue Grass Roots.

Technology Interest Group