Finding Your Roots: Organize Your Genealogy
Spring 2025 Series - Virtual Workshop
About the Workshop Series
Maryland Public Television and the Maryland Genealogical Society invite you to a beginner-to-intermediate genealogy workshop series this Spring. FindingYour Roots: Organize Your Genealogy consists of four (4) two-hour sessions that are designed to help you organize the many aspects of your genealogical research.
We’ll look at how to organize all the information we as researchers accumulate so that it's easy to find and readily accessible. We will talk about organizing to write our family stories so we can share them. We'll examine how to organize and preserve family heirlooms, oral histories, and other precious items. In addition, we will dive into how to organize our DNA matches so they contribute to our research.
Each session features a combination of lecture, small and large group discussion, question and answer time, and a homework assignment relating to your family search. Handouts are provided for each session. The sessions will be recorded and registrants will have unlimited access to those recordings.
This series is perfect for anyone looking for the best strategies to organize the loads of papers, items, links, and resources that come with family research. Your family does not need Maryland ties to benefit from this course; however, the instructor(s) will use some Maryland examples.
Those who attend will receive a one-year MPT Passport membership or membership extension, and a one-year membership to the Maryland Genealogical Society (MGS) -- not applicable to current MGS members.
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This session looks at how to organize the masses of information we accumulate in our research in paper files, digital files, and family tree software (or a combination of all three) so we can easily find that information again and use it as a basis for further research.
Writing and sharing family stories is a goal many genealogists have, but it can also seem like a task that’s far too difficult to tackle. Organizing our information and simplifying our writing process can make it much easier to write our family stories to share with family members or for publication.
Each of us has a family archive, even if we don’t think of it that way. We have items that belonged to ancestors, tapes of oral history, original documents, scrapbooks, photos, and much more. Organizing and preserving them ensures that future generations will understand what they are and cherish them as much as we do.
DNA matches can be a powerful tool to help us prove or disprove family relationships, but matches need to be organized into meaningful groups called genetic networks in order to help us be more efficient in our approach. This session will explore techniques for organizing our matches and understanding what they mean for our research.
All workshop lectures are recorded. Registered attendees will have unlimited access to watch each recorded session.
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