Month: December 2024
Legacy Family Tree Webinar: African Diaspora Series
Read More: Legacy Family Tree Webinar: African Diaspora SeriesIn 2021, Legacy Family Tree Webinars inaugurated the African Diaspora series, which delivers educational webinars geared toward African-ancestored people in the United States and around the world. There is a repository of over 1,800 webinars to choose from, with a variety of speakers, including AAGSNC Lifetime Member Nicka Sewell-Smith, and former Monthly Program Meeting presenters,…
Maps Guide the Way in Arkansas State Research
Read More: Maps Guide the Way in Arkansas State ResearchHow do you go about finding ancestors when all you know from the census is the state where the person was born? We suggest using an atlas and maps to identify counties and centers of African American populations in southern states prior to and after the civil war. In conducting your research, one of the…
Maps Guide the Way in Louisiana State Research
Read More: Maps Guide the Way in Louisiana State ResearchHow do you go about finding ancestors when all you know from the census is the state where the person was born? We suggest using an atlas and maps to identify counties and centers of African American populations in southern states prior to and after the civil war. In conducting your research, one of the…
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Our Next Monthly Program Meeting
The Discovery Phase of DNA: A Pragmatic Approach with Guest Speaker Michael A. Willis Our next monthly program meeting will be held on Saturday, April 19, 2025. Our featured Guest Speaker will be Michael A. Willis. Michael will discuss “The Discovery Phase of DNA: A Pragmatic Approach”. The presentation is designed to show people how…
National DNA Day April 25, 2025
This year, National DNA Day falls on Friday, April 25, 2025. National DNA Day is a unique day when students, teachers and the public can learn more about genetics and genomics. Congress approved the first National DNA Day in April 2003 to celebrate both the completion of the Human Genome Project and the 50th anniversary…
News from the African American Civil War Memorial Museum
The Guest Speaker for our May 2024 Monthly Program Meeting was Dr. Dawn Chitty, Director of Education at the African American Civil War Museum in Washington, D.C. At that time, the indoor exhibit at the Museum was closed to the public due to major renovations that have now been completed. The African American Civil War Memorial…
Need help logging into a Zoom meeting?
Here’s a good resource to help you get logged into our Zoom meetings. This article which provides guidance for many types of access, with helpful links. https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193-Joining-a-Zoom-meeting Here’s a video which is also helpful.
“Roots to Africa: Improving AncestryDNA results for African heritage”,with Nicka Smith
A recent update to AncestryDNA adds powerful insights into African roots, including new regions and ethnic groups. See how you could be connected to multiple groups, and, discover stories from our exciting partnership with local content creators that capture traditions from these ancestral regions. In this video, AAGSNC Lifetime Member, Nicka Smith, introduces a new…