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Andrea Bentschneider is one of Germany’s foremost genealogy experts, with over 20 years of experience helping families uncover their German heritage. She founded the German Genealogy Collective (GGC), an educational community offering expert guidance, masterclasses, and research support. Andrea is also the founder of Beyond History, a professional genealogy research agency, and has appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? and Finding Your Roots. She serves as president of the Association of German-Speaking Professional Genealogists and is a board member of the International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP). A sought-after speaker, she presents regularly at global genealogy conferences, sharing her expertise in German family history research.

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Angela Packer McGhie, CG, is a professional researcher, lecturer, and instructor. She is the Vice President of the Board for Certification of Genealogists. She enjoys coordinating and teaching courses at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research, the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, and the Genealogical Institute on Federal Records. Angela served as the administrator of the ProGen Study Program from 2008-2014 and is now on the board of directors. She was honored with a certificate of appreciation from the Association of Professional Genealogists for her leadership and service.

Genealogista e Designer, empresária do ramo de memória, especialista em Projetos de Design de História de Família. Criadora do Diário da Genealogia, empresa especializada em pesquisa genealógica e concepção de produtos editoriais genealógicos. Diretora Geral no Instituto Sébastien Sisson, instituição cultural dedicada à preservação da memória e do legado do artista Sisson e sua descendência no Brasil. Co-autora do Guia Prático de Pesquisa Genealógica para Cidadania Italiana e 4X palestrante no Rootstech.

Diahan Southard has been helping people use DNA to explore their roots for over 20 years. She started her career at the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, which created the DNA database that became AncestryDNA. After witnessing the power of DNA for family history–and the difficulties people face in using it effectively–she launched a pioneering career in DNA education.

Over the last 20 years Diahan has given hundreds of lectures on DNA from Burbank to Oslo, London to Seattle, to crowds of tens to thousands. Diahan’s talents for making DNA accessible, exciting and relevant are on full display as host of the PBS special, Your DNA Secrets Revealed. Diahan teaches on global platforms such as RootsTech, GenealogyTV and Legacy Tree Webinars. She appears on popular genealogy podcasts and is a DNA columnist for Family Tree Magazine.

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.

Daniel Taddone is an Italian-Brazilian sociologist and genealogist. Graduated from the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP), he is also a specialist in Archival Science (IEB-USP) and in Genealogy and Archives (University of Córdoba, Spain). Taddone is a former employee of the Italian Cultural Institute, of the Italian Consulate General in São Paulo and in Recife (Brazil). An active member of the local Italian community since the early 90s, he is currently one of the four Italian-Brazilian members of the General Council of Italians Abroad (CGIE | www.cgieonline.it).

Gregory Kontos is the founder and director of Greek Ancestry, a Greek genealogy company based in Athens, Greece. Since its foundation in 2020, Greek Ancestry has been recognized as the leading Greek genealogy organization at an international level with a long list of collaborations with companies, organizations, TV shows etc. The Greek Ancestry team offers professional Greek genealogy services, including archival research, translations, DNA analysis, assistance with citizenship applications, ancestral trips etc. At the same time, Greek Ancestry is committed to record preservation and accessibility through digitization and indexing projects throughout the country. Currently, the Greek Ancestry database consists of over 2 million records or approximately 8 million names. Several new collections are expected to be released by the spring of 2026.

Gregory holds degrees in history from the University of Athens and the University of Leiden and currently is a PhD candidate at the University of Athens. His academic work focuses on the history of migration, nationalism and religion.

Julia A. Anderson has a master's degree in history and is an Accredited Genealogist® and Accredited Genealogist Lecturer™ with expertise in the U.S. Gulf South Region. She is research specialist at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, and teaches research and accreditation classes for Salt Lake Community College's online genealogy certificate program. Julia is the owner and managing member of Anderson Genealogical Research, LLC and serves as the conference chair for the Utah Genealogical Association. She and her husband, Scott, live in Orem, Utah and are the parents of nine children and grandparents of nine.

Jorge da Cruz Vieira é arquivista formado pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) e atualmente ocupa o cargo de Diretor do Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (APEB). Graduando em Direito pela Faculdade Baiana de Direito e Gestão, também é pós-graduado em Direito Processual Civil pelo Instituto Brasileiro de Ensino, Desenvolvimento e Pesquisa (IDP). Atuou em bancas de heteroidentificação racial na Defensoria Pública da União (DPU), na Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) e no Conselho Federal de Psicologia (CFP). Consultor e palestrante, possui diversos artigos publicados sobre o tema.

Morag is a professional genealogist from Glasgow, Scotland who completed her Masters degree in Genealogical, Palaeographical and Heraldic Studies at the University of Strathclyde in 2023. Her interest in all things family history related was sparked as a teenager when a visiting distant relative from the United States presented the family with a huge, hand-drawn family tree chart. Blessed with an unusual paternal surname to research, she soon uncovered generations of ancestors living in south east Scotland, and across the Scottish border into Northumbria. Morag specialises in British and Irish research, and is also interested in travel from and to Scotland, or through the country as part of a larger emigration journey story. She now runs her own company, helping others uncover their own roots in Scotland.

Ric Murphy is an educator, historian, lecturer, author and documentarian, and. He is the founder of the Society of the First African Families of English America and currently serves as the President General Emeritus. His award-winning book, the Arrival of the First Africans in Virginia was turned into a documentary with the same name and has won over twenty international films awards, including being selected as Best Director. His family lineage dates to the earliest colonial periods of Plymouth, Massachusetts, and of Jamestown, Virginia. Mr. Murphy’s lineage has been evaluated and accepted by several heredity societies, including the Daughters of the American Revolution; the National Society of the Sons of Colonial New England; the Sons of the American Revolution; the Sons of the Union Veterans of the Civil War; and the Sons and Daughters of the U. S. Middle Passage. Mr. Murphy was a Resident Fellow at Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government; and he has a Masters in Urban Affairs from Boston University, and a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Massachusetts.

Steve Little is the AI Program Director for the National Genealogical Society and has lifelong passions for language, technology, and genealogy. He completed graduate-level courses in applied linguistics, specializing in natural language processing and computational linguistics, two pillars of today’s large language models of AI; his first career was spent in and around libraries (law, local, university, and state archives) building information systems. Steve traces his deep roots to one Appalachian county, where, by 1820, all 32 of his 3rd-great-grandparents had settled—many even earlier than that. In fact, 60 of his most recent ancestors were born, lived, and died there, in Ashe County, North Carolina. His passion lies in AI & genetic genealogy: with a keen interest in endogamy, pedigree collapse, deciphering multiple relationships, and an insatiable curiosity to explore beneficial uses and current limits of artificial intelligence in genealogy. Beyond genealogy, Steve wears many hats: he’s a husband and a dad, a Methodist pastor, and a Virginian. His hobbies span from bird watching and sky gazing; to chess and film. Additionally, he’s an avid reader, writer, photographer, and regex script hacker.