Saturday afternoons at Sojourner Truth Neighborhood Center provided an opportuniy for local families to learn about researching thier family histories with a variet of presenters:
Saturday, October 27, 2018: Opening Symposium with Greg Osborn, New Orleans Public Library Associate and geneaology researcher, and Kysha Brown Robinson,a synergizer and principal of Compositions Consulting
Saturday, November 1, 2018: How to do Ancestry Research with geneaologist, historian and activist, Antoinette Harrell
Saturday, November 10, 2018: Collecting Family Histories with children's author, Freddi Evans, and Jen Virty , fact investigator for NOLA Investigates
Saturday, December 1, 2018: Archiving Family Data led by researcher/curator Gaynelle "Mammy" Brady
Saturday, January 12, 2019: Closing Celebration with genealogist/historian Jari Honora
You can read more about this collaboration project with the Community Book Center in the Clarion Herald and in the New Orleans Data News Weekly.