About Daniel Horowitz: Dedicated to Genealogy since 1986, Daniel was the teacher and the study guide editor of the family history project “Searching for My Roots” in Venezuela for 15 years. He was a board member of The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) for 10 years, now is involved in several crowdsource digitization and transcription projects and holds a board-level position at The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA). Since 2006 Daniel has been working at MyHeritage liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers, and media, as well as lecturing, and attending conferences around the world.

 

Topic:  Writing Your Family History About Emily Coffman Richardson: Emily is a professional genealogist and lecturer living in Denton, Texas.  She began her genealogy research working with her mother in courthouses and cemeteries finding records for her ancestors in Ohio and Pennsylvania. In 2019, she retired from higher education as a faculty member and administrator, moved to Texas and opened up Kinsearchers, the original name of her mother’s business as a genealogist.  For her clients she often works on lineage applications, for multiple societies, as well as brick walls including research for name conflicts within family trees. She is the president of the Texas State Genealogical Society (TxSGS) for a two year term that began on January 1, 2025.  She previously served as secretary for four years and as the Director-at-Large for the executive committee for TxSGS.  She oversees the production of the new TxSGS Podcast, Lone Star Family Trails..Emily is also active as the programming chair  for Robson Ranch Genealogy Club.  She teaches genealogy courses for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) for the University of North Texas.  She speaks to multiple local genealogy societies throughout the state of Texas on a variety of genealogy topics. Emily’s passion is writing the stories of her ancestors to leave those that follow her in the future. Storytelling is one piece of genealogy that is rarely completed, but her mother requested that Emily work on the stories, since her mom had done a lot of the research. She is completing a four-volume work, scheduled for completion in early 2025 on the children of Melchior Yoder, her 5^th great grandfather, who arrived in the US in the 1750’s. This is being done as part of her role as coordinator for the non-Amish branch of the Yoders for the Yoder Family Newsletter.

Bernard Meisner, PhD, began researching his family over 30 years ago and enjoys sharing lessons learned from that experience, including his mistakes. Although he knew only one grandparent– his maternal grandfather– he has successfully identified all his great-great-grandparents, several third- and fourth-great-grandparents, and his Meisner eighth-great- grandparents. He is co-leader of the Dallas Genealogical Society’s German SIG and a member of the TxSGS, Germanic, and NGS Genealogical Societies.