Thursday, June 15, 2023

Online Learning with a Juneteenth focus from Family Search

 From FamilySearch:

Celebrate Juneteenth with 6 New Free African American Genealogy Classes Online

RootsTech by FamilySearch is excited to celebrate Juneteenth with free online classes focused on African American genealogy and taught by nationally known research experts at FamilySearch.me/juneteenth. Six new classes will be live and interactive online June 19, or Juneteenth, and hosted by Thom Reed of FamilySearch. Join us also throughout the month of June to discover more about your African American ancestry through dozens of webinars from past RootsTech events. Register for free at RootsTech.org to add classes to your personal playlist for future on-demand viewing. Most classes offer a free, downloadable syllabusRead full details at FamilySearch.

Classes include:
  • Juneteenth: Understanding This History and Why It Is Important, by Janice Gilyard
  • How I Found an Enslaved Ancestor in My Family Tree: Aaron Anderson, by Karen Strickland
  • From Ali to Clay: Taking the Family Narrative to DNA by Cheri Daniels, Donald Shores, Sherman McRae, Keith Winstead, and Eric Brooks
  • Unveiling Partnerships: Accessing and Using Cohabitation Records at FamilySearch.org by Taneya Koonce
  • A Lineage Society for Descendants of Enslaved Africans: Sons & Daughters of the U.S. Middle Passage by Evelyn McDowell and Ruth Hunt
  • America's True Forgotten Patriots by Ric Murphy
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Register for free at RootsTech.org


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