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Join us for a three-part genealogy workshop series, designed to guide you on how to start building your family tree, apply advanced research strategies, and uncover the lives of your ancestors.
Join us for a three-part genealogy workshop series, Black History Revealed: Navigating African American Genealogy and Celebrating Family Legacies, designed to guide you from getting started in building your family tree, to applying advanced research strategies to extend it, to uncovering the lives and contributions of your ancestors. Live discussion and Q&A will follow each session.
All sessions will occur in Room 401-D in the Conference Center. All sessions are limited to 25 participants and registration is required for each session. Registration will close two days before the workshop.
Are you thinking about building your family tree or maybe you have started but need help on where to look next? Learn how to start uncovering your family history's fascinating world.
Andre Kearns is a genealogist, writer, and public speaker with a passion for uncovering ancestral histories, especially within African American families. His research has traced his own family's roots back to 1619 and the first Africans to arrive in colonial Virginia. Despite the immense challenges of tracing family histories for marginalized groups, Kearns leverages a blend of oral family history, traditional research, and DNA analysis to discover previously unknown stories of both enslaved ancestors as well as free people of color, and share them forward.
Kearns speaks and writes extensively on race, culture, and genealogy to highlight the importance of diverse and inclusive histories. He serves on the board of the National Genealogical Society where he chairs the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. He holds a BA in Business Administration from Morehouse College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Kearns is on a mission to empower others with knowledge of their own complex ancestries. He blogs about his research on Medium. With his unique personal history and professional expertise, his is a leading voice advocating for more truth and reconciliation in America's understanding of its complete history.
Second Session: Research Strategies for African American Genealogy
Date: Saturday, Feb. 10 at 11 a.m.
A key challenge for African American researchers is finding and interpreting nineteenth-century documentation. For both free people of color and enslaved, the institutions of racism and involuntary bondage often curtailed the documentation of people of color. Learn about research methods to extend the scope of African American genealogical research and reassemble our historic families. Register here to attend this session.
Delve beyond family names, dates, and locations to uncover the vibrant lives of your ancestors. Explore advanced research techniques to help you better root your family in history as well as recognize and celebrate the significant contributions your family has made to history (local and global). Register here to attend this session.
AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Lecture | Educational Program | Black History Month |
