April
26 AGENDA
Mini-Session
8:00 - 9:00 am Beginning Genealogy (Research Center)
Presented by: Rachella Biggs
9:15
- 9:30 am
Welcome
Barbara LaClair, President, TGS
Pat Michaelis, Director & State Archivist, KSHS
Main
Session
From Traditional Methods to Cutting Edge
Science
Speaker:
Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak
9:30
- 10:30 am
Trace Your Roots with DNA
10:45 - 11:45 am
Beyond Y-DNA: Your Genetic
Genealogy Options
11:45 - 1:00 pm: Lunch (on your own)
1:15 - 2:15 pm
Building a Village-Based Community
2:30 - 3:30 pm
Reverse Genealogy: Techniques for
Finding Your Lost Loved Ones
3:30
- 4:00 pm
Questions & Answers
4:00 pm
Have a Safe Trip Home
at
Kansas State History Center
6425
SW Sixth Street, Topeka
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Megan
Smolenyak Smolenyak (yes, that's her real name), author of Honoring
Our Ancestors: Inspiring Stories of the Quest for Our Roots, In Search
of Our Ancestors: 101 Inspiring Stories of Serendipity and Connection
in Rediscovering Our Family History, and They Came to America: Finding
Your Immigrant Ancestors, has been an avid genealogist since the
6th grade and is skilled in many aspects of family history research.
Megan is co-founder of Roots Television, a pioneering and popular
online channel of genealogy and history-oriented programming. Her
latest book, Trace Your Roots with DNA:
Using Genetic Tests to Explore Your Family Tree, co-authored
with Ann Turner, M.D., has been featured in Newsweek, The New York
Times, on NPR, and in the Book of the Month Club.
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