19th Annual Family History Seminar
Virtual Seminar
March 8, 2025
8:30 am - 1:30 pm PST
Instructions: Zoom Link will be provided to registered attendees via email, along with login instructions.
Registration is closed for this years seminar.
Keep an eye out for next year's seminar registration. We'd love to see you there.
Keynote Speakers: Renate Yarborough Sanders
Stand, Rise Up and Inspire
Keynote Speaker: Renate Yarborough Sanders
Featured Speaker:
- National Genealogical Society
- RootsTech
- Legacy Family Tree
Genealogy Educator:
- MAAGI
- College of William & Mary
- Norfolk State University
Renate lectures on a variety of genealogy topics but specializes in teaching beginning to intermediate research methodology and sharing specific techniques for researching ancestors of color— both pre- and post- Emancipation.
Featuring Class Topics such as:
- FamilySearch: African-American Research
- African-American Migration
- Where Did I Find It?
- Basic Genealogy for Choctaw and Chickasaw Freedman
- Beginning Genealogy
- Genealogy and Social Media
- Sharing Your Research With Family
- Freedmen's Bureau
- Lives of African-Americans through Civil War Pension Files
- African-American Homesteaders
- The Kinfolk Project
- Genealogy in the News
- Case Study in Louisiana Research Parts I & II
Classes taught by a Distinguished Faculty
Thom Reed • Angela Walton Raji • Celena Perry • KathyLynne Marshall • Janice Sellers • Mary Sayles • James Tanner • Bernie Moodie • Betty Lemley • Michael Willis • Barbara Leak • Denise Griggs
And More..... Classes Subject to Change
Mistress of Ceremony Karen Massie