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On Demand Webinars
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2020-2024
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The Vault
Join my Patreon community to get access to more than three full days of webinars, news, small group meetings, videos, live webinars not offered elsewhere, and more on genealogy and family history. Patreon membership required to view.
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2016-2024
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Legacy Family Tree Webinars
15+ webinars on topics ranging from tracing the enslaved, using DNA and genealogy, free people of color, newspapers and more. Membership required in order to view.
Upcoming Live Webinars and Events
8
June 2024
10:00am Pacific
Monthly Meeting
Finding John Lee
Older Than U.S.: The Elders of the Trask 250
Virtual Webinar. Sponsored by the San Diego Genealogical Society.
11
June 2024
5:00pm Central
Summer Sankofa Series
We We're Taught How to Smile
Virtual. Sponsored by the The Lemon Project at the College of William and Mary
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July 9-11, 2024
Varies
MAAGI 2024
In Person and Virtual. Sponsored by the Midwestern African American Genealogy Institute.
27
July 2024
9:30am Central
2024 Summer Seminar
From Tulsa to Beyond: African American Genealogy in Oklahoma
Finding Isaac Rogers
Giving Them Their Glory: First Kansas/US Colored Troops 79th Regiment
Lost to Time, Unearthed by Access
In Person and Virtual Webinar. Sponsored by the Dallas Genealogical Society.
13
September 2024
1:00pm Central
Finding John Lee: The Saga Continues
Virtual Webinar. Sponsored by Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
6
December 2024
1:00pm Central
The Trifecta: Giving Light to the Lives of the Formerly Enslaved
Virtual Webinar. Sponsored by Legacy Family Tree Webinars.
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Guess what? i talk alot.
Previous Press and
Recorded Interviews
- Radiolab’s Alex Neason Dives Into The Story of Her Name, All of It With Alison Stewart
- Family People, Radiolab
- We are Facing History: Personal Stories, Identities, and our Connected Past, panel with Dr. Tiya Miles, Facing History Facing Ourselves
- Nicka Smith & Nicole Robinson On The Importance of Black People Knowing Genealogy & Ancestry.com, Sway’s Universe
- This nine-year-old was enslaved in the US. Her story could help stop a chemical plant, The Guardian
- Genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith is taking a deeper dive into Black history, Rolling Out
- In ‘A Dream Delivered,’ an African-American Family Uncovers Its History, MTV News
- ‘A Dream Delivered’: New film tells story of lost letters reuniting relatives of man born into slavery, Deseret News
- Questions and Ancestors: Black Family History – Karamo Brown
- Unlocking the Past Through DNA Heritage Travel With Genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith: ‘Let’s Go Together’ Season 2, Episode 26
- Held in the Balance: The Lecture, Amherst College
- ‘We Were Just Passengers’ Freedom Rider Charles Person On The Bus Rides That Changed His Life, MSNBC
- Black News Tonight with Marc Lamont Hill – BNC
- Digital records from 19th Century give Black families a glimpse of their ancestry, Curtis Bunn, NBC
- A Story She Never Knew, NY Times
- Freedmen’s Bureau Records on Ancestry 2021, GenealogyTV
- Ancestry Unlocks Records To A Little Known Part of Black History, Tanya Christian, Ebony
- New digital collection offers missing link for Black families researching their history, WTOP
- Questions and Ancestors: Black Family History – Elaine Welteroth
- Let it Be Known, Black Press USA, April 23, 2021
- Nicka Smith: Ancestry consultant, Cherokee slave owner’s descendant, Nation citizen, Daughter Dialogues
- The TammiMac Show, FoxSoul, March 9, 2021
- Simone Boyce Traces Her Family Roots Back To Her Great-Great-Great Grandmother, MSNBC
- Simone Boyce Learns About Her Past And The Story Of Her Great-Great-Great Grandmother, MSNBC
- Civil War reenactor makes a surprising discovery, CNN
- The Census Is More Than Just a Form. It’s a Window Into the History of American Families, Jennifer Mendelsohn, Time
- “The bitter harvest of Richard Bibb: A descendant of slavery confronts her inheritance,” Lonnae O’Neal, Andscape (formerly The Undefeated)
- “A genealogist’s discovery: ‘Ventress owned my family,” Blake Alsup, The Daily Mississippia
