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Uncovering Black Genealogy through Surprising Archival Locations
June 5 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Shamele Jordon, genealogist and researcher, will lead participants through a demonstration of how to search for information in underutilized archival materials such as burial and land records. Ms. Jordan will connect the ways archival documents and publications like the Motorist Green Book offer a wider range of available places to find relatives and trace family histories, ultimately preserving Black communities.
This virtual program is offered as a preview for HSP’s upcoming exhibit Voices of the Community: Local Black Preservation, on view June 12- September 26.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania Members
Please register for this webinar here.
We wish to provide complimentary tickets to current secondary, undergraduate, and graduate students. Please email us at programs@hsp.org and tell us where you are enrolled as a student and in what program.
About the Speaker:
Founder of Genealogy Quick Start, Shamele Jordon is a multitalented professional genealogist, producer, lecturer, and writer. Her biographical highlights also include: researcher for the PBS series “Oprah’s Roots: African American Lives I and II,” grant recipient of NJ State Library to research Civil War Burials in Lawnside, NJ; former president of the African American Genealogy Group in Philadelphia, past board member of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, faculty at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research in Athens, GA, and workshop volunteer at the Family History Center in Cherry Hill, NJ.
Support for PAS 250 programming comes from The Haverford Trust Company and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society Endowment Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation.
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, founded in 1824, is one of the nation’s largest archives of historical documents. We are proud to serve as Philadelphia’s Library of American History, with over 21 million manuscripts, books, and graphic images encompassing centuries of US history. Through educator workshops, research opportunities, public programs, and lectures throughout the year, we strive to make history relevant and exhilarating to all. For more information, visit hsp.org.