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On Demand Webinars
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2020-2022
Anytime
The Vault
Join my Patreon community to get access to webinars, videos, and more on genealogy and family history. Membership required to view.
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2016-2022
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Legacy Family Tree Webinars
Court Records for People of Color Genealogy Research
The Ten Percent: Free People of Color
Photography for Genealogy
Finding Isaac Rogers
Full Circle: Tracing the Descendants of a Slaveholding Ancestor
The Family DNA Project
Get set, GO! Planning and Executing a Successful Research Trip
Case Studies in Gray: Identifying Shared Ancestries Through DNA and Genealogy,
Newspapers for People of Color Genealogy
The Ultimate Family History Interview
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Upcoming Live Webinars and Events
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June 2022
10:00am Pacific
Juneteenth: Freedom Day
Virtual Presentation. Sponsored by Upland Public Library
23
June 2022
8:00pm Pacific
Beginning African American Genealogy
Virtual Presentation. Sponsored by San Jose Public Library
29
June 2022
6:00pm Central
Beginning African American Genealogy
Virtual Presentation. Sponsored by Normal Public Library
28
July 2022
6:00pm Eastern
Beginning African American Genealogy
Virtual Presentation. Sponsored by Charles County Public Library
25
August 2022
5:00pm Eastern
Held in the Balance: The Trask 250
Virtual Presentation. Sponsored by Atlantic Black Box
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August 19-22, 2022
Daily
Southern California Genealogy Jamboree
Virtual Presentation. Sponsored by Southern California Genealogical Society
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October 2022
12:00pm Central
Finding Isaac Rogers
Seminar. Sponsored by Louisville Genealogical Society
28
October 2022
1:00pm Central
Older Than Us: The Elders of the Trask 250
Virtual Presentation. Sponsored by Legacy Family Tree Webinars
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Guess what? i talk alot.
Previous Press and
Recorded Interviews
- 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 Mississippian
