October 11, 2024 — Evidence Mining & Context: Powerful Tools to Dig Deep (a 2024 Reisinger Lecture)

Rebecca Whitman Koford holds credentials as a Certified Genealogist ®  and as a Certified Genealogical Lecturer. She focuses on research in Maryland, Upstate New York, Virginia, the District of Columbia, colonial records, military records from the Revolution through the Civil War, federal records at the National Archives (D.C.), and land records of all types. She has published articles in the NGS Magazine, APG Magazine, SAR Magazine, and the Maryland Genealogical Society Journal and is co-author of the recently released NGS Research in the States series book on Maryland. She is a graduate and former mentor of the ProGen Study Group, an online peer-led study program based on the book Professional Genealogy and served as its Administrator from 2015–2020. She served as Executive Director of the Board for Certification of Genealogists from 2018 to 2024. She speaks locally, for state organizations, online, and national conferences and including the National Genealogical Society Conference (NGS), RootsTech, Legacy Family Tree Webinars, the Maryland State Archives, and the Virginia State Archives. Rebecca enjoys teaching at institutes, most recently the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) where she is the Course I coordinator, the Institute of Genealogical and Historical Research (IGHR) where she coordinated the course on Washington D.C. Ancestors Research, and the course on Advanced Research Tools: Land Records. In 2021, she was named Director of the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records (Gen-Fed) held annually at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.