Past Events

Apr 30 – Genealogy Reboot (Session 2)

Apr 23 – Genealogy Reboot (Session 1)

Apr 12 – Mapping African Americans by Shamele Jordon

Mar 8 – Bringing the Past to Life: Incorporating Genealogy into the High School Classroom by Michael Andrews

Mar 7 – Celebrating African-American Genealogy by Anita Boyd & Grace Dumelle

Feb 8 – Four Women: Matriarchs Who Preserved Family and Faith Under Slavery in Mississippi

Jan 11– Annual Business Meeting

Dec 14 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 9 – Stop Dreaming, Start Publishing: How to Publish What You Know Usiing Amazon’s KDP by Anita Boyd

Nov 8 – Calumet Heritage Day at Sand Ridge Nature Center

Oct 12 – Using Your Skills in Locating Descendants of 19th Century Lynched Victims by Char McCargo Bah

Oct 11 – 43rd AAGHSC Annual Family History Conference | Contracts & Kinfolk: Finding Family Through Land , Labor, and Legal Trails (J. Mark Lowe, Dr. Deborah Abbott, & Char McCargo Bah)

Aug 10 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 13 – Roots, Records, and Resilence: Using HBCU Libraries and Archives for Genealogical Research by Christina Vortia

Jun 21 – Juneteenth Jubilee at Sand Ridge Nature Center

Jun 8 – Journey to Juneteenth by Evelyn Nabors 

May 11 – Open Forum: Let’s Talk

Apr 13 – Madison Veal: A One Year Odyssey Around the Confederacy by Alvin Blakes

Mar 9 – Bringing Green Book Locations to Life: Chitterlin Circuit, BBQ, and more by Shamele Jordon

Feb 9 – Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture & History by Hermon, Sr., Hermon, Jr., and Darryl Johnson

Jan 12 – Annual Business Meeting/Election of Officers

…………… – How to Find Your World War I Ancestors by Johnette Brooks

Dec 10 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 12 – Oak Woods Cemetery Notables by Sherry Williams (Bronzeville History Society)

Oct 15 – Conference Sunday

Sep 10 – How to Use FamilySearch for African American Research by Eli Kirshner

Aug 20 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 9 – Preparing a Genealogy Will by Evelyn Nabors

Jun 11 – Allen County Public Library by Curt Witcher

May 14: Open Forum: Let’s Talk

Apr 16 – Black Pearls of Genealogy by David Anthony Taylor

Mar 12 – Augustus Cemetery Research by Shanna Wolf Augustus

Feb 12 – From Needmore to the Negro Leagues: Rediscovering a Hometown Hero by Anita Boyd

Jan 8 – Annual Business Meeting

December – Annual Christmas Party

November

October

September

August – Annual Society Picnic

July

June

May

April

March

February 

January – Annual Business Meeting

Dec 13 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 8 – 

Oct 11 – 

Sep 13 – 

Aug 9 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 12 – Binga: The Rise and Fall of Chicago’s First Black Banker by Don Hayner, Author

Jun 14 – Ask Tony: Strategies: Research Strategies for AAGHSC Members by Tony Burroughs, Author of Black Roots

May 10 – Open Forum: Let’s Talk

Apr 12 – DNA for Beginners by Cheryl Varner

Mar 8 – Black Heroes of Fire: The History of the First African American Fire Company in Chicago – Fire Engine Company 21 by Dekalb Walcott, Author

Feb 9 – Lifting As They Climbed: Mapping a History of Black Women on Chicago’s South Side by Essence McDowell

Jan 12 – Annual Business Meeting 

Dec 19 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 11 -Mississippi Death Index Working Session

Oct 14 – Conference Sunday (Nicka Sewell Smith)

Sep 9 -Conference Preview

Aug 12 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 9 – Illinois’s Servitude And Emancipation Records by Anita Boyd

Jun 10 – African American Proverbs: A Chicago Family Treasure by Marcus Ahmed, Ph.D.

May 13 – Open Forum: Let’s Talk

Apr 8 – 4-H Curriculum and Genealogy Project by Venita McDonald

Mar 11 – Avalon Public Library by John Luke, Branch Manager

Feb 11 – Stephen Douglas: The Chicago/Mississippi Connection by the Mississippi Study Group

Jan 14 – Annual Business Meeting/Election of Officers

Dec 10 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 12 – 

Oct – Conference Preview

Sep 10 – Exploring the Illinois Regional Archives Depository (IRAD) at Northeastern Illinois University

Aug 13 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 9 – Julius Frankel Collection ofChicago History Museum by the KITO (Kentucky-Indiana-Tennessee-Ohio) Study Group

Jun 11 – Finding Civil War Soldiers in Your Family by Sherry Williams (Bronzeville Historical Society)

May 14 – Open Forum: Let’s Talk

Apr 9 – Alabama Study Group & Venita McDonald

Mar 12 – Teaching History through Art: 1861 – 1865 by LaNaye T. Lawson, Black Chicago Museum

Feb 12 – Strong Beautiful African American Women by Melvin C. Ryan and Paul Holmes, AAGHSCmembers

Jan 8 – Annual Business Meeting/Election of Officers

Dec 11 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 13 – 

Oct 7 -8 – 34th Annual Family History Conference

Sep 11 – Illinois Study Group Presentation

Aug 14 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 10 – Word Warrior: Richard Durham, Radio, and Freedom by Sonja D. Williams, Author

Jun 12 – Researching at the National Archives in Washington, DC by the Mississippi Study Group

May 8 – Archival Imaging and Document Preservation by Thomas Tracy and Ernest Rose

Apr 10 – Alabama Study Group Presentation

Mar 13 – Technology Group Presentation

Feb 14 – The Quivers Family Saga by Lovie Warren

Jan 10 – Annual Business Meeting

Dec 13 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 8 – Overcoming Brick Walls, Part II – Anita Boyd delves into William Floyd’s Prater Family of Gallatin, Illinois

Oct 11 – Conference

Sepr 13 – How to Design Your Family History so It Looks Good (And So Do You)? by Karen Taylor

Aug 9 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 12 – Brick Wall Strategies by Anita Boyd

Jun 14 – Billiongraves.com Fieldwork: Lincoln Cemetery

May 10 – Find-a-Grave Computer Tutorial by Anita Boyd

Apr 12 – How to Edit and Organize Newsletter Writings and Family History Stories by Marcus Day

Mar 8 – Carter G. Woodson Library by Rodney Freeman, Director

Feb 8 – Kings: The True Story of Chicago’s Policy Kings and Number Racketeers by Nathan Thompson

Jan 11 – Annual Business Meeting

Dec 14 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 9 – Computer Performance: Tips & Strategies

Oct 12 – Kaskaskia to Quebec: Linking My Native American and French Canadian Ancestry to the Founder of North America by Michael Henderson

Sep 14 – Private J. W. Willams: Civil War Veteran by Judith Samuel of the Illinois Study Group

Aug 10 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 13 – Mississippi Death Index Project and Jackson Funeral Project by Nettie Nesbary, Lettie Sabbs, Desiree Booker, Sheila Smith of the Mississippi Study Group

…………… – Educable Children Census index by Anita Boyd of the Mississippi Study Group

Jun 8 – Getting to Know Your Ancestors 1870 Ancestors: Evelyn Nabors and Clara and John Hodge of the Alabama Study Group.

May 11 – How to Conduct Research in the Caribbean and the West Indies by Paul Holmes

Apr 13 – Life and Times of Dinah Washington by Damita Cox

Mar 9 – Writing Your Family History by Ivy Dunn

Feb 9 – One Black Family’s History in the Military by Joe Wiley

Jan 12 – Annual Business Meeting

Dec 8 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 10 – Genealogy Fair: Show & Tell

Oct 13 – not Kenyatta Berry

Sep 8 – Research in the Public Libraries by Mary Williams

Aug 11 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 14 – Newspapers & Genealogy: An Awesome Combination by Tim Pinnick

Jun 9 – Invisible Black Pilots of World War II by Karen Taylor

May 12 – We Came on Ships by Rev. Dr. Eric King and Ashieka Daniels

Apr 14 – Uncovering Ancestral Convict Files: Prison Records at the California State Archives by Angela McGhee

Mar 10 – Reflections: Documentary-Style Photograph Series by Terrence A. Reese

Feb 10 – Grand Army of the Republic by the Illinois Study Group

Jan 13 – Annual Business Meeting

Dec 9 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 11 – Genealogy Fair: Show & Tell

Oct 14 – Ancestors On-Line: Using the Web by John Cooper

Sep 9 –

Aug 12 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 8 – DNA vs. Genealogy: Which is More Relevant by William Floyd

Jun 10 – Mine Owne Ground: Free Blacks in Colonial Virginia by Professor Tim Breen

May 13 – Slave Genealogy by Tony Burroughs

Apr 15 – Various Genealogy Topics

Mar 11 – Census Records and the 1940 Census by Nettie Nesbary & Lettie Sabbs

Feb 12 – Using Primary Sources by Cristal Simmons

Jan 8 – Annual Business Meeting

Dec 11 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 13 – Genealogy Fair: Show and Tell by AAGHSC State Study Groups

…………… – Beginning Genealogy Break-Out: Dr. Sheila Smith

Oct 9 – Couch Potato Research by Gwili Posey

Sep 11 – How to Prepare for a Research Trip to the Allen County Public Library (Fort Wayne, IN)

…………… – Beginning Genealogy Break-out: Emerson Stewart

Aug 14 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 10 – Office of the Cook County Medical Examiner

Jun 12 –

…………… – Beginning Genealogy Break-Out: Nettie Nesbary

May 8 – World War II Experiences by AAGHSC veterans: Dr. Welton Taylor & Tim Black

…………… – Korean War Experience by AAGHSC veteran: Curtis “Kojo” Morrow (Buffalo Soldiers)

Apr 10 – Collective Memory vs. Institutional Memory by Tony Dunbar

…………… – Beginning Genealogy Break-Out: Paul Holmes

Mar 13 – Born Colored: Life before Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama by Erin Mitchell

Feb 13 – How Advertising has Affected the Psyche of Blacks by Lowell Thompson

Jan 9 – Annual Business Meeting

Dec 12 – Annual Christmas Party

Nov 14 – Genealogy Fair: Show & Tell

Oct 10 – Genealogy of Jesus by Rev. Dr. Walter McCray

Sep 12 – Wills & Probates by Judge LaGuina Clay-Clark

…………… – Beginning Genealogy Break-Out: Emerson Stewart

Aug 8 – Annual Society Picnic

Jul 11 – Research Trip Travel Techniques by Anita Boyd

Jun 13 – The Old Scrappers by Dr. Anderson Thompson

…………… – Beginning Genealogy Break-Out: Paul Holmes

May 9 – Record Searches at Pilot.FamilySearch.org by Angela McGhee

Apr 11 – AAGHSC’s Heritage Book by the Alabama Study Group

…………… – Beginning Genealogy Break-Out: Nettie Nesbary

Mar 14 – Ida B. Wells by her granddaughter, Michelle Duster

Feb 14 – Black Presidents by Dr. Delbert Blair

…………… – Beginning Genealogy Break-Out: Doris Davis

Jan 10 – Annual Business Meeting

December – Annual Christmas Party

Nov – Genealogy Fair: Show & Tell

October – Virginia Study Group

Sep – Mahalia Jackson by Bertha Reine

Aug – Annual Society Picnic

Jul – Breakout Session: To Be Announched

Jun – by Tony Burroughs

May 

Apr – No Meeting (East Sunday)

Mar – Tennessee Study Group

Feb –Banished: American Ethnic Cleansing tells the story of sundown towns, black expulsions, and the Cobbs (of Pierce City, Missouri) by their great-grandson, Charles U. Brown

Jan – Annual Business Meeting

Dec – Annual Christmas Party

Nov – Genealogy Fair: Show & Tell

Oct  – Reginald Washington, NARA

Sep – Land (Heir Property) by Geraldine Simmons, J.D.

Aug – Annual Society Picnic

Jul – Breakout Sessions: To Be Announced

Jun – My Famous Relatives: Sam Cook by L.C. Cook;

………….. – Etta Moten Barnett by Sue Barnett; and,

…………… – Langston Hughes by Marjol Rush-Collet, 

May – Ghana by Roma Stewart, discussion leader

Apr – Alabama Study Group & Janis Forté, moderator

Mar – Reparations by Barbara Baker of N’Cobra

Feb – Underground Railroad (Chicago & Calumet areas) by Naomi Davis, C/Cure  ((Chicago/Calumet Underground Railroad Effort))

Jan – Annual Business Meeting

………… – Break-Out for Beginners

Dec – Holiday Celebration

Nov – Genealogy Fair: Show & Tell

Oct – by Ivy Dunn

Sep – State Study Group Break-Out Sessions, featuring Ken McKay (Tennessee)

Aug – Annual Society Picnic

Jul – Timuel Black, Jr.

Jun – Alabama Study Group

May – by Eric Smith

Apr – Alabama Study Group

Mar – Black Loyalists by Karen Massey

Feb – Using Maps in Genealogy by Cristal Simmons

Jan – Annual Business Meeting