Events

 October 10, 2026
11:00 am - 1:00 pm ET - Location: Zoom Webinar

Descendant Tracing

Melissa Johnson

Take a break from researching backward in your family tree and begin “descendant tracing.” Join us as Melissa Johnson shows us how to trace all of the descendants of an ancestor (not just those in your direct line) to locate living cousins. This lecture focuses on the value of researching forward in your family tree and introduces the resources and types of records useful for this increasingly popular type of research.

ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Melissa Johnson is a Certified Genealogist® specializing in genealogical research on families from NJ, NY, PA and the British Isles; DNA testing for adoptees and unknown parentage; dual citizenship; lineage society research; and genealogical writing, editing, and publishing.
Melissa Johnson is a historian of women, religion, and communication in early America. Her first book project focuses on watchfulness and women’s gossip in seventeenth-century New England. She is also working on two other projects, one on domestic servitude in colonial New England and another on deception and imposters in the Atlantic world. Her research has been supported by the Massachusetts Historical Society, the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, the Clark Memorial Library at UCLA, and the Center for the Education of Women at the University of Michigan. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in 2019 and currently teaches history courses at community colleges in Oregon and in Washington state.

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 November 14, 2026
11:00 am - 1:00 pm ET - Location: Zoom Webinar

Disabled or Deceased in the Line of Duty – Military Pensions and the Civil War

Judy Russell

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 December 12, 2026
11:00 am - 1:00 pm ET - Location: Zoom Webinar

Organizing your Genealogy PC Files

Casey Zahn

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