Severna Park United Methodist Church

“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...

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...

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 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 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.

Anne Arundel Genealogical Society Is pleased to announce New Features Offered by Family Search Featuring guest speaker Michael Butterworth Michael's presentation will cover: Home Page after Login - FamilySearch has updated the home page to make it a more personalized experience. Access to Records at FamilySearch - How does FamilySearch negotiate the rights for records and how can you view those records. Search Records at Home - Over the past several years, FamilySearch has been digitizing these records and publishing them online for people to search and view from their...

Anne Arundel Genealogical Society Is pleased to announce “The Girl With Two Mothers” Featuring guest speaker Anne Sundermann Anne Sundermann will present her journey to locate her birth family and her roots. She will discuss the use of adoption records and the difficulties she encountered. Her search included the use of a variety of online resources, DNA testing, and the assistance of post-adoption search services. Her discovery led to a reunion with her birth family and her roots in Ireland. Come and learn more about how to research adoptions. Guests...

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...

This presentation by John Siemon 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 has been on the Board of Directors of the Maryland Genealogical Society since 2008, and is currently President of the Society. He has been researching his family history since 1997. His special interests are maps, the Civil War, and Baltimore history and genealogy.

Has your genealogy research hit a brick wall? Are you having trouble tracking down an elusive ancestor, or a maiden name or marriage date for a couple in your family tree? Could you use some suggestions for new sources or websites that might solve your problem? Do you need help making sense of the records you have found? If so, join us as Betty deKeyser, Carol Carman, and Tom McCarriar will field your questions and give you ideas on how to get your research moving again. Betty, Carol, and Tom...