Although the live sessions of our workshop series Finding Your Roots: Death Is Only the Beginning have ended, you can still register to view the series on demand. Our partner, Maryland Public Television, maintains the event registration page and will provide new registrants with links to the recorded sessions. The cost of the series is $100.00.
Registration for on-demand access ends November 16.
Registrants will also receive a one-year introductory MGS membership (not applicable to current members) and a one-year MPT Passport membership or membership extension.
The four (4) two-hour sessions are designed to help you use the many types of death-related records to learn not only about an ancestor but also about their families. The four sessions include:
- 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
Details of each session are available on the registration page.
Our Speaker
The workshop series will be led by nationally known speaker Annette Burke Lyttle, who has been the presenter for several previous MGS/MPT workshop series. She holds the Certified Genealogist® credential and owns Heritage Detective, LLC, providing professional genealogical services in research, education, and writing. Annette is a course coordinator for the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy and the British Institute. She is a published writer whose research interests include Quaker ancestors and ancestral migrations in the US. She is past president of the Association of Professional Genealogists and editor of The Florida Genealogist.
Historic image in graphic: Mourning Picture, American, ca. 1810. Metropolitan Museum of Art.