CGS member and expert African American genealogy researcher, Electra Kimble Price, sent along this announcement of an on-going class:
The next African American Research Workshop will be held Thursday, January 24, 2008, from 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. at the Oakland Regional Family History Center, 4766 Lincoln Avenue, Oakland, California. The topic for discussion will be “Preparing the Search for ‘The Last Slave Owner.'”
A portion of the anniversary film sponsored by the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH) will also be shown: Freedom’s Song, 100 Years Of African-American Struggle And Triumph.
Price encourages workshop participants to come equipped with a three-ring binder for the handouts and to bring the names, location, and ages of five family members who were alive in 1900.
JAN
2008