Members-only Exclusive Event: "Finding Your Roots" with Nick Sheedy bozone.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bozone.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Genealogy is a team effort, and each family tree is incredibly unique. This conversation will center on how important it is to speak with older generations, and work with younger generations, to record and preserve family history.
Join us online to learn more about Finding Your Roots, Season Nine, and explore how technology is changing how we research and share family history. The event will include information and tips on how people can digitize files, responsibly share them for discovery by distant family members, and safeguard them for future generations.
Panelists:
Taneya Y. Koonce | Executive Board Member, Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society
Kimberly N. Morgan | Lead Genealogist, Finding Your Roots
Genealogists help African Americans trace lineage past enslavement tmj4.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tmj4.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Guests on
Finding Your Roots, who
will highlight tools and stories for carrying out their ancestry studies with a focus on people of color
. We will also explore the journeys of author Cheryl Wills family genealogy study and the books she has written and WXXI host and producer, Teej Jenkins and her family history study.
Nick Sheedy, Lead genealogist on Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Nick has conducted extensive genealogical and historical research during the past 25 years. Under the mentorship of his dear friend, the late Johni Cerny, he embarked on an eight-year crash course on how to become a world-class professional genealogist. He became the Associate Genealogist of