Event Education-Finding Your Elusive Female Ancestors in Local Archives

Finding Your Elusive Female Ancestors in Local Archives by Melissa Barker

PLEASE NOTE THIS STARTS AT 6:00PM

Local archives of all kinds have records for your female ancestors. Many times, these records are not digitized or available online. Learn from a seasoned archivist how to locate and research female records in local archives.

Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and Public Historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives & Museum and has been in these position for the past 15 years. She is affectionally known as The Archive Lady in the genealogy community. She lectures, teaches, and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives and records preservation. She conducts virtual presentations across the United States and other countries for various genealogy groups and societies. She writes a popular blog entitled A Genealogist in the Archives and is a well-known published book reviewer. She has been a Professional Genealogist for the past 22 years with expertise in Tennessee records. She has been researching her own family history for the past 36 years.

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