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WPGS Membership:  The Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society is a great group of passionate, dedicated genealogists with a lot to offer both Pennsylvania residents, and those who now live far from their Pennsylvania roots. Why not join us?

WPGS Spring Seminar

Saturday, April 12, 2008
Holiday Inn, Greentree
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Registration at 8:30 AM)

$40 per person for WPGS and WQED Members; $45 per person for non-members,
Hot Buffet Lunch is included

Speaker, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak


Seminar Topics:
  • Trace Your Roots with DNA
  • Find That Obituary! Online Newspaper Research
  • Building a Village-Based Community
  • Cases That Made My Brain Hurt

Speaker Bio:

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 honored to serve as Chief Family Historian and North American spokesperson for Ancestry.com, the largest genealogical company in the world. She is also co-founder of “Roots Television”, a pioneering and popular online channel of genealogy and history-oriented programming.

As lead researcher for the PBS Ancestors series, she delved into over 5,000 genealogical stories and developed much of the content for the companion website. She has subsequently consulted for other television programs, including They Came to America and African American Lives for PBS, and BBC’s Timewatch (regarding the identification of sailors’ remains recovered from the USS Monitor).

Since 2000, Megan has also been a consultant with the U.S. Army's Repatriation project to trace families of servicemen killed or MIA in Korea, WWII and Vietnam. The intent is to develop a DNA-database from relatives' blood samples so that remains that are now being repatriated can be identified and interred. She has supported this and more than 75 other genealogical initiatives through her Honoring Our Ancestors Grants Program.


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