Agenda

9 - 10amRegistered guests check-in, coffee and donuts available
10amWelcome and Introductions
10:10 amLecture #1
How I Built MY Own Brick Wall & The Sledgehammer of Experience
Audience Q&A
11:10 amNetworking & Brainstorm Break
11:45amFinding Your Roots Season 11 Luncheon
Featuring a screening of Finding Your Roots and Audience Discussion
1:10pmLecture #2
Indirect Evidence: Fining What Was Not Written
Audience Activity / Breakout
2:45pmFarewell and closing remarks


MPT is offering this experience as part of our community engagement plan tied to Finding Your Roots Season 11.

Corporate support for Season 11 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. is provided by Gilead Sciences, Inc., Ancestry® and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; by the Inkwell Society together with many of its members; and by public television viewers.

Production Credit: FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season 11 is a production of McGee Media, Inkwell Media, and Kunhardt Films, in association with WETA Washington, D.C.. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is the writer, host, and executive producer. Dyllan McGee and Peter Kunhardt are executive producers. Sabin Streeter is the senior producer. Natalia Warchol is the series producer. Deborah Clancy Porfido is the supervising producer. Kevin Burke is the producer. Robert L. Yacyshyn and Leslie Brown are line producers. Sam Hartley is the coordinating producer. Sabin Streeter and Krista Whetstone are directors.

About the Presenter

 Rebecca Whitman Koford holds credentials as a Certified Genealogist® and as a Certified Genealogical Lecturer®.  She focuses on research in Maryland, Upstate New York, Virginia, the District of Columbia, colonial records, military records from the Revolution through the Civil War, federal records at the National Archives (D.C.), and land records of all types. She has published articles in the NGS Magazine, APG Magazine, SAR Magazine, and the Maryland Genealogical Society Journal and is co-author of the NGS Research in the States series book on Maryland. She is a graduate and former mentor of the ProGen Study Group and served as its Administrator from 2015–2020. She speaks at national conferences and regularly teaches at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG), the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research (IGHR). She served as Executive Director of the Board for Certification of Genealogists® from 2018–2024. In 2021, she was named as Director of the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) in Washington, D.C. Rebecca was elected as the vice-president of the National Genealogical Society in October 2024. She takes clients and runs her business under the name Rebecca Whitman Koford Genealogical Research, LLC.

Registration Information

This event is FREE but advance registration is required. 

Space for this event is limited, therefore a $8 per person refundable deposit is required to hold your space.  

  • This is an in-person workshop located at Maryland Public Television (11767 Owings Mills Blvd.).



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The MPT Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3). Your contribution supports MPT's service to children, education and the region. Thank you for your additional support.  The Maryland Genealogical Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization.  We welcome as members anyone interested in genealogy, heraldry, history, or biography.  Any additional donations for this event will be split between the two organizations.

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