Beginner Genealogy Workshop

Judith Allen-Shaw, President of the Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, will discuss how you can get started researching your family lineage. She will share organizational handouts such as an ancestral chart and a family group record. The workshop will include a demonstration of free online tools and resources that are available, and recommended next steps. Bring your questions!

A former educator, Judith Allen-Shaw has spent the last twenty-five years researching her family lines from Virginia. This passion developed after listening to family stories from her mother and paternal grandmother. She also has an interest in America’s Colonial period, and its impact on the indigenous and African people on this land.