Reverse Genealogy: Locating Living Distant Relatives with Katherine Willson

Learn to use free online sites to locate unknown relatives, and possible ways of identifying and contacting Ancestry.com DNA matches.

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Presenter Katherine Willson is Katherine R. Willson of Dexter, Michigan is an engaging & dynamic genealogy lecturer at local, regional, and national conferences; an educator teaching beginning, intermediate, and advanced genealogy classes in Michigan since 2001; the author of The Genealogist’s Guide to Grand Rapids, Michigan (published in 2018 by The In-Depth Genealogist), and a professional researcher for private clients. Her research specialties include solving difficult genealogical problems in the Great Lakes region, as well as tracing westward migration from the Midwest.

Her genealogy interests began as an 8-year-old Junior Girl Scout working towards the now-retired “My Heritage” badge, and her passion was fueled when, after college, both her mother’s and father’s relatives gave her binders containing generations’ worth of family information. (Katherine is a 7th generation Michigander with pre-statehood ancestors arriving from New York in the early 1830s, with the Sample/Moore line settling in Oakland County and the Havens/Arnold line settling in Lenawee County.)

Her success in using Facebook to break down genealogical brick walls both personally and in her classroom inspired her to catalog 16,700+ Facebook genealogy links (updated January 2021). Additionally, she has compiled 190+ instructional genealogical channels on YouTube (updated February 2022), and 76 genealogy-related podcasts (updated February 2022).

You may also like the following events from Genealogy & Local History at the Steele Memorial Library - CCLD:

• This month, 22nd May, 01:30 pm, Beginning Cemetery Research in Elmira
• This month, 27th May, 10:00 pm, 10 Genealogical Brick Walls You Will Face (and How to Demolish Them) with Robert Cameron Weir in Elmira, New York
• Next month, 10th June, 10:00 pm, DNA for the Overwhelmed with Robert Cameron Weir in Elmira, New York