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Finding Your Roots: Death Is Only the Beginning (Session 2)
Wednesday, September 23
Finding Your Roots: Death Is Only the Beginning (Session 2)  (Webinar)
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Virtual - Zoom Meeting
The Maryland Genealogical Society is pleased to once again partner with Maryland Public Television (MPT) to offer a new beginner-to-intermediate genealogy webinar series. Finding Your Roots: Death is Only the Beginning will include four (4) two-hour sessions designed to help you use the many types of death-related records to learn not only about an ancestor but also about their families. Sessions will be held at 7:00pm ET on September 9, September 23, October 7, and October 21. 
 
In order, the four sessions are:
  • Death Records as Doorways: What One Death Can Tell Us
  • Last Words in Print: Obituaries, Death Notices, and Newspaper Accounts
    • Newspapers can preserve the public story of death: death notices, obituaries, funeral notices, accident reports, illness accounts, memorial tributes, estate notices, inquest reports, and community responses. This session shows how to search newspapers effectively to find different types of death-related newspaper items. The session will also address common problems in newspaper research: finding particular newspapers online, dealing with OCR errors and variant names, exaggerated memorial language, and the pitfalls of family-supplied information.
  • Buried, Mourned, and Remembered: Cemetery, Funeral, and Church Records
  • After the Funeral: Probate Records and the Family Left Behind  
For more details, see the MGS homepage.
 


Finding Your Roots: Death Is Only the Beginning (Session 3)
Wednesday, October 7
Finding Your Roots: Death Is Only the Beginning (Session 3)  (Webinar)
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Virtual - Zoom Meeting
The Maryland Genealogical Society is pleased to once again partner with Maryland Public Television (MPT) to offer a new beginner-to-intermediate genealogy webinar series. Finding Your Roots: Death is Only the Beginning will include four (4) two-hour sessions designed to help you use the many types of death-related records to learn not only about an ancestor but also about their families. Sessions will be held at 7:00pm ET on September 9, September 23, October 7, and October 21. 
 
In order, the four sessions are:
  • Death Records as Doorways: What One Death Can Tell Us
  • Last Words in Print: Obituaries, Death Notices, and Newspaper Accounts
  • Buried, Mourned, and Remembered: Cemetery, Funeral, and Church Records
    • ​This session turns to the records of burial, mourning, and memorialization. Cemetery records, gravestones, burial permits, funeral home records, church burial registers, sexton’s books, lot records, perpetual-care files, monument inscriptions, and memorial cards can place an ancestor in a family, congregation, ethnic community, neighborhood, or migration chain. Participants will learn how to evaluate cemetery evidence, distinguish burial place from place of death, interpret cemetery lot ownership, connect burials to church membership, and use funeral and burial records to identify relatives and associates. The session also discusses modern cemetery databases and memorial websites, including how to verify user-contributed information against original records.
  • After the Funeral: Probate Records and the Family Left Behind  
For more details, see the MGS homepage.
 


Finding Your Roots: Death Is Only the Beginning (Session 4)
Wednesday, October 21
Finding Your Roots: Death Is Only the Beginning (Session 4)  (Webinar)
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Virtual - Zoom Meeting
The Maryland Genealogical Society is pleased to once again partner with Maryland Public Television (MPT) to offer a new beginner-to-intermediate genealogy webinar series. Finding Your Roots: Death is Only the Beginning will include four (4) two-hour sessions designed to help you use the many types of death-related records to learn not only about an ancestor but also about their families. Sessions will be held at 7:00pm ET on September 9, September 23, October 7, and October 21. 
 
In order, the four sessions are:
  • Death Records as Doorways: What One Death Can Tell Us
  • Last Words in Print: Obituaries, Death Notices, and Newspaper Accounts
  • Buried, Mourned, and Remembered: Cemetery, Funeral, and Church Records
  • After the Funeral: Probate Records and the Family Left Behind
    • ​Probate records show what happened after death: who inherited, who administered the estate, who owed or was owed money, who bought estate property, who acted as guardian, and who appeared in court. This session explains the probate process and introduces wills, administrations, inventories, estate accounts, bonds, receipts, guardianships, partitions, dower records, and related court records. Participants will learn how to move beyond the will, track an estate through the full file or docket, identify heirs and associates, and use probate records even when no will exists. Special attention will be given to connections with family and associates, women’s identities, minor children, blended families, and clues to land, debt, migration, and kinship.  
For more details, see the MGS homepage.
 


Finding Your Roots: German Genealogy - From U.S. Clues to German Research
Wednesday, October 28
Finding Your Roots: German Genealogy - From U.S. Clues to German Research  (Webinar)
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Virtual - Zoom Meeting
Presented in partnership with Maryland Public Television, this presentation will discuss how to use online records to research your German roots, including the most promising sources for identifying your German ancestor's town of origin and how to find online German church and civil records. The presentation will conclude with time for questions and answers.
 
Whether you've just discovered you have a German immigrant ancestor or want to hone your skills in German genealogical research, this two-hour session will provide lots of helpful guidance. The cost is $40.
 
Our speaker is Debra A. Hoffman, professional genealogist, author, and lecturer, who specializes in Maryland and German research. She has a certificate in Family History from Brigham Young University and a Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies (PLCGS)-German Records from the National Institute of Genealogical Studies. She coordinated the week-long course “Maryland: Researching in the Old Line State” at the 2020 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) and co-authored NGS’ Research in the States Series: Maryland. She currently serves as an MGS At-Large Board Member and is the Secretary for the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society. She is the principal of Hoffman Genealogical Services and conducts research trips to Germany.


It's Not All Online: MCHC Library
Saturday, November 7
It's Not All Online: MCHC Library  (Program)
11:00 am to 2:00 pm
Maryland Center for History and Culture, 610 Park Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21201
MGS and our partners at the Maryland Center for History and Culture (MCHC) invite you to learn about the genealogical resources available only onsite at MCHC's H. Furlong Baldwin Library.
 
In addition to a discussion about the records, manuscripts, and other materials relevant to family history research, participants will explore the Library and have time for personalized genealogy research assistance from members of the MGS board. 
 
Registration cost (which includes lunch) is $15.00. Spots are limited, so register soon!