Join us starting at 10:30 for hospitality and mingling. The business meeting starts at 11:00, followed by our featured speaker around 11:30.

Our speaker will be Glenn Kinkade, who will be discussing the Perils, Paradoxes and Pitfalls in Probate Records.

Whether you ancestor died with a will of without, finding the probate records for the decedent may prove to be the most valuable records you can find; however, these records can be misunderstood, scattered in many books and boxes in a courthouse, and can be confusing to a beginning genealogist.  This presentation will help guide you through the challenges of probate records to reap the rewards.

Glenn Kinkade is an experienced genealogical researcher, lecturer, author, and instructor.

He graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wichita State University.  After serving as an officer in the United States Air Force, he joined IBM in 1960 in Kansas City, Missouri.  In 1990 he retired from IBM in Dallas, Texas, and began pursuing researching his family.  Glenn has taught computer genealogy classes at Southern Methodist University, SeniorNet of Dallas, and Brookhaven College, where he currently teaches several different genealogy courses…  His hobbies include travel, sailing on tall ships, attending reenactments of Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 battles, photography, and genealogy.  Glenn and his wife Ann live in Dallas and have two married sons and six grandchildren.

Glenn’s genealogy presentations focus on “how to” successfully use record collections to solve genealogy problems.