Have you found a record of your ancestor showing the ownership of the enslaved? What do you do with the information? Learn how to move past the emotions , extract the names of the enslaved and share them to help families connect.

 

Cheri Hudson Passey is a professional genealogist, instructor, writer, speaker, and owner of Carolina Girl Genealogy, LLC. She is the host of the YouTube genealogy chat show GenFriends and is a genealogical researcher, subcontracted by Eagle Investigative Services, Inc., for the US Army Past Conflict Repatriations Branch. She is involved in many genealogy societies and organizations and currently serves as National Genealogical Society Vice President of Society & Organization Management.

 

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Newspapers are a tremendous resource for discovering details about someone’s WW2 service. This program discusses effective search terms; the use of genealogical research methods to uncover hidden clues; and strategies for incorporating information you find in other records and resources. It also touches on important nuances to consider when using newspapers to research African American and female WW2 servicemembers.

KB Barcomb specializes in WWI & WW2 records, resources, and research methodology. She has taught for the Applied Genealogy Institute, the GRIP Genealogy Institute, and is an instructor for the 2024/2025 Fall & Spring sessions of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. She is a retired US Army officer and a member of the Society for Military History and the Association of Professional Genealogists.

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Note: If Montgomery County Schools are closed or close early, the meeting will on be via Zoom.