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.
Save the date! Online registration is coming.
Keynote Speakers: Renate Yarborough Sanders
Stand, Rise Up and Inspire
Keynote Speaker: Ari Wilkins
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