Registration opens January 2, 2013.

Ancestry Day Schedule

Adams Pointe Conference Center, Blue Springs, Missouri

Titles of some of Lou’s books include: The second and third editions of The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy (co-edited with Sandra Luebking); They Became Americans; Chicago and Cook County Sources: A Genealogical and Historical Guide; Ellis Island: Tracing Your Family Through America’s Gateway, and with Sandra Luebking, she is the co-author of The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches. With Matt Wright, she is co-author of Finding Answers in U.S. Census Records.

Lou   has lectured at more than twenty national conferences and hundreds of   workshops since 1980. Additionally, she has taught family history   classes for local schools and for the National Archives-Great Lakes   Region in Chicago. Television interviews include the PBS Ancestors series, ABC News, CNN News, and the ABC television show, The View.

Angela McComas has been working  in the genealogy field about fifteen  years, working on her own family  lines and those of friends and clients.  She works full-time at the Midwest  Genealogy Center, where she coordinates classes and  special programming. Angela  teaches many classes at the Library and for  societies, both local and  national, and has been published in several  venues.

Kathleen Brandt is the sole proprietor of  a3Genealogy with more than  10 years' experience as a professional genealogist and is a licensed  Private Investigator. She researches for  NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? and PBS's Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates.   She has extensive experience in international and nationwide   documentation retrieval, free-colored research, military record   retrievals, tracing slaves, as well as Irish, Swedish, and German   records. As a freelance writer, her genealogy articles have been   published in the Genealogy Archives online magazine, and on the   a3genealogy.blogspot.com website. She is a member of the Association of   Professional Genealogists (APG).

Jolene Clark is a reference assistant at the  Midwest Genealogy Center and enjoys helping others find their ancestors.  She has a Bachelor’s in History from Brigham Young University and is  currently working on her Master’s in Library Science at the University  of Missouri. Jolene first became interested in genealogy about 24 years  ago when she took a correspondence course in genealogy to earn credit  for college. She began by researching her Australian family, finding  some convict ancestors in her family tree. Now she manages to turn every  family vacation into some type of genealogy trip and tries enlisting  the help of her husband and four children.

Beth discovered her love of genealogy through her  father, who built a 115-name family tree with every family member’s name  he knew. This family treasure became the launching point for her  research. While Beth continues to research her family, she shares her  knowledge through lectures, articles, her blog (genealogydecoded.com),  and one-on-one assistance. She particularly enjoys speaking at regional  venues including the Missouri and Nebraska State Conferences. Her focus  is early American genealogy.

Cynthia Shively

Cynthia   Shively has worked at Midwest Genealogy Center since April 2012. In   addition to her regular duties at MGC, submitting blogs and assisting   with MGC’s Facebook page, Cynthia writes for her own personal blog   called The Spoken Ellipsis – A Writer’s Layover. For Cynthia, social   networking is the cornerstone to her research, writing, and art. Her   primary social networking sites are Facebook, both personally and   professionally, Pinterest, and her own blog.