Learn tips, tricks, and more for researching ancestry in the bluegrass state! Special Guest: Sharyn Mitchell, president, President of The African-American Genealogy Group of Kentucky.
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Nicka Smith is a professional photographer, speaker, and documentarian with more than 20 years of experience as a genealogist. She is the host of BlackProGen LIVE, a web show focused on people of color genealogy and family history.
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BlackProGen LIVE! Episode 84: Getting Started With Caribbean Research
Learn tips, tricks, and more for researching ancestry in the Caribbean! Special guest, Anaisa Bayala.
BlackProGen LIVE! Episode 83b: Stories from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Part II
In 2018, The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened the The National Memorial for Peace and Justice which memorializes more than 4,400 African American men, women, and children who were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, and beaten to death by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Episodes 83a and 83b feature …
BlackProGen LIVE! Episode 83a: Stories from the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Part I
In 2018, The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) opened the The National Memorial for Peace and Justice which memorializes more than 4,400 African American men, women, and children who were hanged, burned alive, shot, drowned, and beaten to death by white mobs between 1877 and 1950. Episodes 83a and 83b feature …
What I'm up to
2018 was filled with webinars, 5 trips to New York, a trip to California, Illinois, Kentucky, and more. Where will I be headed next? Wouldn’t you like to know? 🙂
BlackProGen is a group of professional genealogists who research and document African American families. We share research strategies, thoughts, ideas, experiences, and whatever comes to mind while working for clients and in our own research endeavors.
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Traveling to Benin
Hello mother land!
Check out this clip from my recent journey to West Africa with Kieron Graham who discovered his deep ancestral roots.
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A Visit with Uncle Al
A visit to New York
I had a ball getting to know Al Roker, host and weatherman on the morning mainstay, the Today Show. In this clip, I reveal his DNA results which guided his journey back to Africa.
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october 2018
Telling my ancestral story
I recently had the opportunity to meet/speak with some amazing young people from Ole Miss about a special issue of their school paper, The Daily Mississippian. The result was a story about my family’s ties to the “father” of their school.