April 2024 General Membership Meeting
Ancestral Slave Research with Mary Jones-Fitts
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Business Meeting @ 6:00 PM |
Speaker Presentation @ 7:00 PM
Business Meeting @ 6 PM
Speaker Presentation
Join us this month for the April General Member Meeting with special guest speaker Mary Jones-Fitts. In this presentation, you’ll learn about reconstructing families in the enslaved community and finding their slaveholders.
See you there!
About Our Speaker
Mary Jones-Fitts
Mary Jones-Fitts is a professional genealogist, historian lecturer, and writer with 42 years of research experience. She specializes in Slave Ancestral research and African American genealogy research, as well as preservation of black history. She is co-founder of the Birmingham African American Genealogy Group, and the Mobile African American Genealogical & Historical Society. Her favorite quote she coined, "History is not a pencil with an eraser, it cannot be erased."