September 2023 General Membership Meeting
Clues of Enslavement, Era by Era with Special Guest Speaker, Shamele Jordon
Tuesday, September 12th @ 6:00 PM
Business Meeting @ 6 PM
Presentation @ 7 PM
At the first meeting, we’ll begin with a Business Meeting from 6 to 7 PM.
This month, from 7 to 8 PM, Shamele Jordon will join us to and present “Clues of Enslavement, Era by Era,” where we’ll review the records available documenting the enslaved. We’ll learn how to locate, understand, and use the details to uncover lives previously hidden. We will discuss: people as property, escapees underground, fighting for freedom, memories of Massa.
We’ll wrap up with updates from our Committee Chairs and upcoming events. We’ll also have a special door prize to be sure to stay until the end! See you there!
About our 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.