The Impact of EU Privacy Laws on Genealogical Research
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Eastern
The Impact of EU Privacy Laws on Genealogical Research
Sunday 26 January 2025, 1:00–2:30 PM ET (19:00–20:30 CET)
Panelists: Lene Dræby Kottal, CG® (Denmark); Ursula C. Krause (Germany); Anne Morddel, CG®, MLIS (France); David Ryan (Ireland); Markus Schönherr (Austria)
Facilitator: Judy G. Russell, JD, CG®, CGL℠ (USA)
Sponsored by the APG International Affairs Committee and the Professional Development Committee
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About Our Panelists:
Lene Dræby Kottal, CG® is a professional genealogist who holds the Certified Genealogist® credential from the Board for Certification of Genealogists. She has earned an academy profession degree in marketing economics and taken various classes at the University of Southern Denmark, including linguistics, American history, and social studies. Before founding her genealogy research business in 2013, she worked as a financial clerk for multinational corporations. Lene's passion for genealogy was ignited at age seventeen when she discovered her Czech ancestry. Since then, she has researched both her Danish, Swedish, Finnish, and Czech ancestors. She regularly blogs about Danish genealogy and research methods. For more information, visit her website at https://www.genealogistkottal.com.
Ursula C. Krause is a German genealogist with a law degree. She previously worked for the Data Commissioner of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where she was part of the team responsible for drafting the first data protection legislation for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern after German reunification. Ursula began her professional genealogy career in 2009. After running her own company, Rootseekers, and later working as a senior genealogist with AncestryProGenealogists, she established My German Family in 2023. Specializing in German genealogical research across multiple centuries, Ursula focuses particularly on 20th-century research, where her legal background proves especially valuable. Her expertise has been showcased on renowned genealogical television programs, including Finding Your Roots, Who Do You Think You Are, and Every Family Has a Secret. Together with Ute Brandenburg, she is part of the German Genealogy Headquarters, the go-to place for German genealogy education and mentoring.
Anne Morddel, CG®, MLIS, worked in libraries and archives in her native California, Europe, South America, the Middle East and Africa. She is now based in France, where she has written The French Genealogy Blog for more than fifteen years, producing nearly one thousand posts about the many aspects of French genealogical research. Some of these posts have been published in book form, most notably, French Genealogy From Afar. She also has spent many years researching American merchant seamen in Europe. Her recently published American Merchant Seamen of the Early Nineteenth Century: a Researcher’s Guide explains how to use libraries, archives and online databases around the world to document the lives of seamen who lived in the early 1800s. Her next book, about the more than 1500 American mariners who were prisoners in Napoleonic France, to be published by Boydell and Brewer, is due out next year.
David Ryan is a genealogist, speaker and oral historian based in Cork, Ireland. He has worked as a professional genealogist for the past decade and has been a member of APG since 2015. David recently completed a Masters in Public History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Limerick and is a graduate of ProGen Study Group 39. He has also served on the APG Board of Directors since 2022 and as part of the APG International Affairs Committee since 2020. David is the current Communications Chair for the Oral History Network of Ireland.
Markus Schoenherr is a professional genealogist originally from Germany. Since 2000, he has lived and worked in Vienna, Austria, specializing in Central and Eastern European research as well as probate genealogy, finding living relatives of deceased persons, as potential heirs to an estate. Apart from his native German and English, he speaks and reads in several languages, including Romanian and Hungarian. Markus has held a number of leadership positions on boards and commissions of various associations in Europe, and was recently re-elected to a position on the Board of Directors of APG. He formerly worked in financial planning and accounting, holding a business degree from the University of Passau, Germany.
Judy G. Russell, JD, CG®, CGL℠, The Legal Genealogist ® , is a genealogist with a law degree who provides expert guidance through the murky territory where law and family history intersect. An internationally-known lecturer and award-winning writer, she holds credentials as a Certified Genealogist ® and Certified Genealogical Lecturer℠ from the Board for Certification of Genealogists ® . Her blog is at https://www.legalgenealogist.com.
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