Learn more about mtDNA from a different and digestible perspective! Rick Schmidt will use his mtDNA results to show how that data relates to his family tree, and how to amplify that information with Ancestry.com. He will also compare mtDNA results with YDNA results and provide ancient historical reference points to explain the diversity of ethnicity and geography in Europe.

Rick Schmidt has been a genealogical researcher for 43 years. He has published a family history book, “Sixteen Maryland Families”, and founded the Family Historians Genealogy Club at Fort Meade in 1980. He is also a former President of the Anne Arundel Genealogical Society, as well as former member of and newsletter editor for the Board of Directors of the Genealogical Council of Maryland. He has presented numerous briefings about various aspects of family history to many Maryland genealogical societies since 1980, and lived in Europe for 4 ½ years.