Fall 2026 OLLI Digital Catalog

GETTING STARTED WITH GENEALOGY: BUILDING YOUR FAMILY TREE (E243)

E – Genealogy

Getting started in genealogy and family history can mean many things depending on the person. Maybe today is the first time you have investigated how to build your family tree. Perhaps you have already started looking at records online and found someone who may be your great great-grandmother but you don’t know how to verify it. Or maybe you have worked on and off collecting information, but you are not sure how to pull it all together and reach much further back in your family history. Start here!

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Janice Roots

ROOTS, JANICE — B.A., psychology, Cheyney University. Community advocate, retired medical education administrator and descendent of those sold at the Great Slave Auction of 1859. Works at the intersection of history, public health and reparative justice. With more than 30 years of genealogical research experience, has successfully traced ancestral lines, confirmed kinship through most recent common ancestors (MRCAs) and connected with descendants across generations and regions.

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