Kimberly Powell - 2027 Keynote Speaker

About Kimberly Powell - 2027 Keynote Speaker

Kimberly T. Powell, AG ®  is especially passionate about researching hard-to-find
families in the Carolinas and Virginia and sharing her love of genealogy with
others through teaching. She is the Director of Education for the National
Genealogical Society and a past president of the Association for Professional
Genealogists. She served as the Genealogy Expert for About.com for sixteen
years and is the author of several books, including “The Challenge of Endogamy
and Pedigree Collapse” in Advanced Genetic Genealogy: Techniques and Case
Studies and The Everything Guide to Online Genealogy, 3rd edition. She has also
contributed to several popular genealogy magazines, including BBC’s Who Do You
Think You Are?, Family Tree Magazine, NGS Magazine, and the Association of
Professional Genealogists Quarterly.
Kimberly enjoys teaching in courses at the GRIP Genealogy Institute, Institute of
Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR), and the Salt Lake Institute of
Genealogy (SLIG), as well as online through Level Up Genealogy
(www.levelupgenealogy.com). She also loves researching land records,
reconstructing neighborhoods, and using genetic evidence to help solve complex
genealogical problems.