Event Date: April 06, 2024
Finding Your Roots: A Genealogy Fair
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Join WITF and our community partners for a free genealogy resource fair featuring a preview screening of the season 10 finale episode of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Viewers Like You.
Saturday, April 6 • 1:00 – 5:00pm
Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts
222 Market St., Harrisburg, PA 17101
WITF’s genealogy resource fair begins at 1:00pm. Local genealogy experts and organizations will join us to share tips on building your family tree and the resources they can offer to help you in your research.
Organizations in attendance include:
- Capital Blue Cross
- York County History Center
- Country Meadows Retirement Communities
- Pennsylvania State Archives
- Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
- State Library of Pennsylvania
- African American Historical Society of South Central PA
- Dauphin County Library System
- South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Lancaster Public Library
- PA Ancestors
- Kindred Spirits Genealogy Workshop Group
- Cumberland County Historical Society
- Friends of Lebanon Cemetery
- SOAL: SavingOurAncestorsLegacy
As the resource fair wraps up at 2:15pm, the theater doors will open for our preview screening of Viewers Like You.
WITF’s Scott LaMar will moderate a panel discussion with Denys Allen, Founder of PA Ancestors, other local genealogy experts, and Cumberland County resident Megan Robertson, who is featured in the Finding Your Roots season 10 finale episode.
The panelists will discuss and take questions about starting the process of researching your own family history, and Megan will share what it was like to be on the show and discover new family “roots.”
Our current capacity for the screening and panel discussion is 200 people. Capacity for the Genealogy Fair is not as limited. If you miss out on Fair + Screening tickets, you can still attend the Fair only.
If tickets for the screening and panel discussion open up that day, you will have the opportunity to pick up a non-accounted for ticket at the registration table at the 2:30pm start time.
Finding Your Roots: A Genealogy Fair & Screening is supported by:
Corporate support for season ten of Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is provided by Ancestry®, Johnson & Johnson and AARP. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Candace King Weir and by members of The Inkwell Society and by public television viewers like you.
