Wokeck is Panelist at Midwestern Roots Conference

History Professor Marianne S. Wokeck, along with some of the nation's leading genealogy professionals, will participate in the Midwestern Roots 2005: Family History and Genealogy Conference, August 18-20 in Indianapolis. Midwestern Roots, co-sponsored by the Indiana Historical Society and the Indiana Genealogical Society, will feature more than 30 presentations covering topics ranging from finding female ancestors, census substitutes and German SS records to baptismal records, preserving family papers and more.

In a panel session entitled “History and Genealogy: Why Not Both?” nationally renowned historical genealogists Elizabeth Shown Mills and Curt B. Witcher, Indiana historian James H. Madison, and Wokeck, a migration historian, will explore how the fields of history and genealogy can enrich each other.

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