Event Education-Social History and Material Culture: A Genealogist's Tool to Enhance Family Stories

Social History and Material Culture:  A Genealogist's Tool to Enhance Family Stories by Cynthia Guffey

Family heirlooms, letters, diaries, photos, personal articles, and other family ephemera often hold stories that genealogists may have overlooked. Three vignettes will illustrate researching photos, articles, and items to add to the timeline and social history of an ancestor.  

Today’s speaker, Cynthia Guffey, has been interested in family history since a teenager, and began researching in courthouses, libraries, the National Archives, and visiting cemeteries to record and save family history.  She is a genealogist who specializes in Pennsylvania, East Tennessee, Scottish, and Quaker records.

She speaks to genealogy societies and is a member of many historical and lineage societies.  She served as the previous TNGS Vice President.  Cynthia is the editor for the Northumberland County Historical Society (PA) newsletter.  She is the current Vice President of the Signal Mountain Genealogical Society and the Prudhomme Fort Colonial Dames Chapter in Chattanooga.

Cynthia is a graduate of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and the University of Alabama at Huntsville.

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