Kenneth D. Ackerman

Name: Researching and Writing Your Family History
Start: 2026-11-18T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-11-18T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Zoom

Kenneth D. Ackerman has authored five commercially-published books of Americana (including his most recent, Trotsky in New York, 1917) plus dozens of articles, posts, and a recent screenplay. He has practiced law in DC since the 1970s, including senior posts on Capitol Hill and in two Administrations. He lives in Falls Church with his wife Karen.

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November 2026

Kenneth D. Ackerman

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In this one-night introduction, historian/biographer Ken Ackerman shares the tricks of the trade for investigating our family roots, going back generations, using archives, interviews, internet sources, family records, and memories - and ideas to organize and share our heritage with children and grandchildren.

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