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Friday, March 20
MAGS Spring Workshop  (Workshop)
1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Maritime Conference Center and Zoom
Presented by MAGS member Bob Greiner
 
Accessing Maryland Vital Records on the Reclaim the Records Website
  • The organization Reclaim The Records (RTR) has acquired all available Maryland vital records and indexes from the Maryland State Archives (MSA) and posted the images on the Internet Archive (IA) website. The RTR site provides tables with links that take you to the correct web pages containing films with images of the indexes and certificates.
  • This workshop will provide you with instructions and tools to effectively search the indexes for a person's name and find a digital copy of the desired vital record - birth, marriage, or death. The instructor will walk you through the search process using examples. Participants will then have an opportunity to try searching for a record by yourself with guidance from the instructor.
  • Following this workshop you will have the knowledge to more effectively search for online Maryland vital records.
Searching Bremen, Germany Civil Records and More Online
  • The free German city of Bremen has had civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths since 1811 until the present time. Digital images of these records are available online via the archival information system of the Niedersachsen Federal State Archives and the State Archive Bremen. Although access to more recent records is restricted, many of the records are available. Indexes to the civil records can be searched on the website of Die Maus, the Society for Family Research in Bremen.
  • In addition, the Bremen State and University Library has digitized copies of Bremen address books from 1790-1980 available online. These are a valuable resource to find people who lived in the city during those years. Combined with the vital records, a researcher can learn a lot about families in Bremen.
  • This workshop will demonstrate how to effectively use these resources to search for ancestors who lived in the city. The instructor will demonstrate how to approach the search for a person and methods used to extract the digital records. Participants will then have an opportunity to conduct their own search for samples provided by the instructor or for their own person of interest.
  • In this workshop you will learn how to navigate these websites to more effectively find a person of interest. More generally, you will learn what types of records may be available for other large German cities.


Saturday, March 21
MAGS Spring 2026 Conference  (Conference)
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Maritime Conference Center and Zoom
Featuring: Teresa Steinkamp Mcmillin, Certified Genealogist, the owner of Lind Street Research ----
 
Session 1: Getting the Most from German Church Records; ----
Session 2: Get With the Times: Newspaper Research; ----
Session 3: Adapt, Improvise and Overcome: Explore German Military Records; ----
Session 4: Case Studies Illustrate Finding German Origins; ----
 
Agenda for Saturday
10:00 am     Welcome
 
10:15 am     “Getting the Most from German Church Records”
This session will cover using church records effectively. The focus will be on whole family research, dealing with indexed and unindexed records, translation tools, and using records to find others efficiently.
 
11:15 am     Break
 
11:30 am    “Get With the Times: Newspaper Research”
Germany does not have large subscription-based websites for accessing newspapers for genealogical research. Despite that fact, thousands of digitized German newspapers are available online. Many of them are free. Learn where they are and how to access them.
 
12:30 pm      Lunch Break
 
1:30 pm       MAGS Business Meeting
 
1:45 pm    “Adapt, Improvise and Overcome: Explore German Military Records”
Military records for Germany are an underutilized resource. Because there was no unified Germany prior to 1871, one must search for records under prior jurisdictions. Many records have not survived. This talk will walk through the steps of finding the records that do exist.
 
2:45 pm       Break
 
3:00 pm       “Case Studies Illustrate Finding German Origins”
This session walks through successful cases, highlighting strategies used to find a hometown.
 
4:00 pm       Conclusion
 
Teresa Steinkamp McMillin, Certified Genealogist, author of the Guide to Hanover Military Records, 1514-1866 on Microfilm at the Family History Library, is the owner of Lind Street Research, a company dedicated to helping people discover their German ancestry. She has taught at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), GRIP Genealogy Institute, and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG). She created and recorded courses for Ancestry Academy and Legacy Family Tree Webinars. She is a popular speaker for national, regional, and local genealogical societies. Teresa conducts research on behalf of the U.S. Army to aid in repatriating soldiers missing from the nation’s past conflicts.
 
Reading German gothic script found in German records prior to the mid-1900s is second nature to her. Researching ancestors in Chicago and other areas of the Midwest is another of Teresa’s specialty areas. She is a multi-year attendee of IGHR and SLIG.