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Curious About your Ancestors?
Come attend a free Family History Class presented by the Columbia Family History Center on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.
“Researching Estate Records at the Maryland Archives” presented by the Columbia Family History Center.
1 p.m., Saturday, April 11, 2015
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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4100 St. Johns Lane, Ellicott City
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
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Call 443-354-1757 for more information.
Probate records are rich genealogical sources that often pre-date vital records and can be the only source of a decedent’s date of death and names of family members. Carol Petranek will give examples of estate and probate records available at the Maryland Archives and the fascinating data that can be found in them. Currently these records are being digitized by FamilySearch and will soon be available online.
Carol Petranek is the Volunteer Coordinator for a FamilySearch/Maryland Archive digitization project of Probate and Estate Records and serves as a Co-Director of the Washington, D.C. Family History Center. She is a Citizen Archivist at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., and volunteers on the Civil War Widow’s Pension Project and as a Genealogy Aide in the Research Room.
