Anne Arundel Genealogical Society

Anne Arundel Genealogical Society Is pleased to announce African American Genealogical Research At the Maryland State Archives Featuring guest speaker Chris Haley Chris Haley is Director of Research for the Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland at the Maryland State Archives and Director of the Utopia Film Festival in Prince George's County. Additionally, he has served on the following boards: Annapolis Film Festival, Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, Historic London Town Foundation, Jake Savage Foundation and the Annapolis Arts Alliance Foundation. His script for the 2004 The RECONCILIATION WALK...

Featuring guest speaker John Siemon John's presentation will cover the uses for maps in researching family history, plus many places to find detailed maps that show where your ancestors lived. His talk will include some online demonstrations and how to put them in your family history documents. John Siemon is President of the Maryland Genealogical Society, and has served on its Board of Directors since 2008. He has been researching his family history since 1997. His special interests are maps, the Civil War, and Baltimore history and genealogy.

Featuring guest speaker Maria Day Maryland State Archives Department of Special Collections preserves the State's holdings of private documents and culturally-significant records. The department maintains over 6200 individual collections that have wide diversity in format, size, and information. Personal papers contain family secrets within fragile diaries and manuscript letters. Illustrated–and sometimes hand-drawn–maps tell stories about the growth of population and industrialization of our state. Governors and public officials have left documents that reveal their character and family life. Other collections are preserved in now-historic technologies: from LP records to audio...

Featuring guest speaker Pamela Baster Pamela Baster will give an overview of the resources available on the DAR Library’s Genealogical Research System, known as the GRS. She will describe the different resources that can be used at home and how access at home differs from access at the DAR Headquarters in Washington DC. She will present tips and tricks on how to make the most of your research from home, and when to decide it’s time to go to the DAR Library for an inperson visit. Pamela Baster is the...

Featuring guest speaker Michael P. Parker Professor of English (Ret.) United States Naval Academy The mania for assembling colonial tombstones in St. Anne’s Churchyard, Annapolis, culminated in June 1926 with the translation, not of another stone, but of human remains: those of the last prerevolutionary governor of Maryland, Sir Robert Eden. Lawyer and antiquary Daniel Randall crowned his three-year search for the bones in the ruined church of St. Margaret’s Westminster by commissioning an elaborate stone to mark the new grave and planning a grand re-interment ceremony. The Eden translation...

“Ethics and Genetic Genealogy” Featuring guest speaker Andrew Hochreiter Taking a DNA test and looking at your matches is easy. But the ethical questions that can arise are not. Andrew Hochreiter will help us navigate the minefield of ethical considerations associated with DNA testing - taking the test, asking others to test, revealing unexpected discoveries, and the use of DNA databases by law enforcement. Andrew Hochreiter, MEd, MIS, is a genetic genealogist with over 28 years of experience in genealogical research and 12 years involved with genetic genealogy. He manages...

Anne Arundel Genealogical Society is pleased to introduce guest speaker Cindy Steinhoff, director of the Andrew G. Truxal Library at Anne Arundel Community College. Cindy will introduce researchers to HathiTrust, a collection of more than 17 million digital books, and Genealogy Connect, a database of books available through the Anne Arundel County Public Library (AACPL). More than 6.5 million of the books in HathiTrust are in the public domain and available free of charge for anyone to use. The HathiTrust began in 2008 as collaborative project sponsored by the largest...

Join the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society for our second Cemetery Inscription Day of 2019. Help us transcribe information from tombstones and grave markers for use in genealogy research. In addition to photographing markers with a camera, we will use the BillionGraves app to record cemetery data. If you want to use the app, download it to your phone and set up an account. Make sure your phone is fully charged before you arrive, and set to record GPS locations. If you have questions, or in case of inclement weather, contact Tina Simmons at [email protected] or 410-978-7167.  

Jan Sharik Baker shares a story handed down from mother to daughter. It is the tale of a simple immigrant family that came from Ireland to Annapolis. As the information was gathered, and the story unfolded, connections to many well-known landmarks and points of local interest were uncovered. Each discovery that confirmed a long ago memory, brought the ancestors to life in the hearts and minds of the family living here today. Join the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society as we “stroll the streets” that built this family’s story. For more...

Your next visit to a cemetery will never be the same. Tina Simmons, a long-time member of our Anne Arundel Genealogical Society has been researching cemeteries for as long as she has been a member. Last year using grants from both the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County and the Trader Foundation of Maryland, she created a booklet and website featuring various aspects of cemetery art from around Anne Arundel County. In this talk, she will show additional examples from cemeteries she has visited both locally and from around the...