On Saturday, October 27. 2018, AAGS will hold our Fall Seminar, featuring James Tanner, genealogy blogger and lecturer, speaking on Migration Patterns of Our Ancestors.  James has more than thirty years' experience in law, computers, and over thirty years experience as a research genealogist.

Major genealogy companies have embarked on a profound initiative: to preserve the world’s records that hold genealogical value, and to make them available to researchers in digital format. This is no easy task, and the scope is enormous, too big for any one organization. Carol Kostakos Petranek will discuss her experiences in digital preservation initiatives as a volunteer for MyHeritage in Greece and with FamilySearch at the Maryland Archives.

Carol Kostakos Petranek serves as an assistant director of the Washington, D.C. Family History Center, where she coordinates classes, conferences and community outreach projects. She is a Citizen Archivist at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. and volunteers as a genealogy aide in the Research Room. Carol is the volunteer coordinator for the FamilySearch/Maryland Archive digitization project of probate and estate records, and a volunteer for Greek records preservation at MyHeritage.