Untangling Our Roots: Experiences with African American Genealogy

Genealogy research requires hard work, persistence, creativity, and often courage - no two stories are exactly alike!
The State Library and State Archives of North Carolina, in partnership with the Capital City Juneteenth Celebration Committee, present a Lunch and Learn panel of veteran family history researchers. The panelists will offer research strategies and share their own experiences untangling the intersected knots of history, memory, and surviving records to reveal their ancestral roots. A question and answer session with panelists and staff of the SLNC and SANC will follow.
Speakers: Cheryl Williams, Emerson Foster, and Lisa Withers.

[@beepbopboop3221]

Thank you for posting this! The Hawkins reunion story is very encouraging.

[@malikajstevelyauthor]

Great information and resources. Thank you for sharing your experiences.

[@myb4200]

Thank you so much for putting this together it hit home for the time it takes I’ve only been surcharging for two days and it consumed both my days and now I’ll I can think about is finding my family/ Ancestors so I can tell my kids their stories and so on and so forth. I’m 33yrs old and to not were you come from can have feeling lost in America. History is so important

[@LovingLife-mp2bq]

This was a very informative, entertaining, and enjoyable presentation. Thank you Emerson and cast for the great content.

[@Around_the_way_finance]

So happy to have heard Halifax will be on that list! Excited to tap back into my search.

[@tanelise4673]

Great presentation! One I will listen to over and over again

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The lack of comments speaks for itself

[@Njoofene]

Very interesting discussion.

[@djladyfantasy]

Awesome info ❤

[@Christ_is_a_blackman100]

Introduction should have been done by someone black and with a prayer 🙏🏾