February 2022 Membership Meeting
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM Presenter: Valma Burroughs Topic: Let Us Give Praise To The Foot Solders Who Came Before Us! - The Safe House Black History Museum
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH PROGRAM Presenter: Valma Burroughs Topic: Let Us Give Praise To The Foot Solders Who Came Before Us! - The Safe House Black History Museum
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Presenter: Gina Perry Topic: Using Photographs in Genealogy
Standard Registration Ends March 24, 2022
Presenter: Omer Jean Winborn Topic: Freedmen's Bureau Records
Election of Officers PROGRAM Presenter: Sasha Johnson Topic: Genealogy In a Digital Age: Resources to Jump Start Your Research
The FHWGS Annual Karl Hamilton Field Trip will continue during the pandemic. We will have a virtual event. Detroit Historian, Jamon Jordan will guide us through the history of Detroit's Northend neighborhood.
STATE CLUBS
NICKA SEWELL-SMITH AFRICAN AMERICAN GENEALOGY CASE STUDIES: Combining Traditional Genealogy With DNA Researching the enslaved is beyond possible, but it’s not one size fits all. In this session, learn about a myriad of research strategies and documents outside of the slave schedules that confirm slaveholders and name their formerly enslaved.