| Details | Prepare for your family reunion by learning your family history! NMAAHC’s Robert Frederick Smith Explore Your Family History Center team — including Doretha Williams, Lisa Crawley and Hannah Scruggs — will teach you how to research family history through the census and various databases like Family Search and Fold3. Attendees will learn about going beyond 1870 to identify family members. Attendees will also hear from Robert Frederick Smith Explore Your Family History Center (FHC) visitors who have identified their family history. NMAAHC’s FHC team has guided more than 25,000 visitors through genealogy research sessions and hosted over 100 virtual and in-person programs since 2017. Online, we regularly engage with our museum community through the Community Curation Platform, where hundreds of guests are now active members who regularly upload their personal and community histories. The Family History Center is living history by capturing, mapping, and exploring genealogy. The families served in the FHC are living representations of their ancestors’ existence. You can learn more about the Robert Frederick Smith Explore Your Family History Center at on our website at https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/museum-centers/digitization-curation-african-american-history/family-history.
Image credit: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Eddie Faye Gates, Tulsa OK, author, historian, community activist |
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