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Using Maryland Land Record Indexes by Margo Lee Williams
Wednesday, April 26
Using Maryland Land Record Indexes by Margo Lee Williams  (Monthly Educational Meetings)
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Zoom
This will be a discussion of how to use the MDLandRecs website to research deeds and plats, as well as property tax records to find more contemporary information. 
 
Margo Lee Williams is currently the Deputy Registrar for the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP). She is an award-winning author and genealogist-family historian, who has published three books on her southwestern Randolph County, North Carolina community. She is a former researcher on the “Black Families of Sandy Spring” project with the Sandy Spring Museum; and she is also a former editor of the Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. She is a graduate of Marquette University and has her M. A. degree in Sociology from Hunter College and an M. A. in Religious Education from The Catholic University of America. She currently lives in Maryland. In addition to her blog, “Personal Prologue” (margoleewilliamsbooks.com), she is on Facebook, @personalprologue, Instagram @personal_prologue, Twitter @MargoLW1228, and Linked-In @Margo L. Williams.
 
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DNA and the Golden Rule: The Law and Ethics of Genetic Genealogy by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL
Wednesday, May 24
DNA and the Golden Rule: The Law and Ethics of Genetic Genealogy by Judy G. Russell, JD, CG, CGL  (Monthly Educational Meetings)
7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Zoom
Whose permission is needed to test a child or an adult unable to consent? Who owns our DNA? What can we disclose about a cousin who has tested? The rules of the road for the ethical challenges facing genealogists interested in using DNA evidence as part of their family history research. Learn how applying the Golden Rule can guide us through many if not most of the situations in which we as genetic genealogists find ourselves.
 
Judy G. Russell, The Legal Genealogist®, is a genealogist with a law degree who provides expert guidance through the murky territory where law and family history intersect. An internationally-known lecturer and award-winning writer, she holds credentials as a Certified Genealogist® and Certified Genealogical Lecturer from the Board for Certification of Genealogists®. Her blog is at   https://www.legalgenealogist.com.
 
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