Los Angeles FamilySearch Library/Lectures and Upcoming Events

Black History Month Events & Activities
  Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation''  Enslaved    click here Digital academic journal that publishes original, peer-reviewed datasets about the lives of enslaved Africans and their descendants drawn from documents produced from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries.  Thom Reed AAHGS 2020 Conference "Gathering at the Welcome Table" click here How the descendants of slave owners and the descendants of the enslaved can work together to discover and share records and bring about healing, understanding and reconnect families torn apart by the institution of slavery.   LIVE Classes  Feb 6th at 2pm African American Research Part I: Jackie Ireland Click | Zoom Registration  Feb 11th at 6-7:30pm African American History Research using Pre & Post 1870 Resources: Dr Edna Briggs Click | Live Help Now  Feb 13th at 2pm  African American Research Part II: Jackie Ireland  Click | Zoom Registration  Feb 17th at 7pm  African American Research Part I: Jackie Ireland Click | Zoom Registration  Feb 18th at 1-2:30pm African American History Research using Pre & Post 1870 Resources:  Dr Edna Briggs  Click | Live Help Now  Feb 24th at 7pm  African American Research Part II: Jackie Ireland' Click | Zoom Registration''

  RootsTech 2021 Sharon Leslie Morgan Founder of OurBlackAncestry.com; writer and genealogist

  The International African American Museum’s Center for Family History  “Finding your Black Roots - 29 Ways in 29 Days"    click here

<p style="font-size:25px; color: #f5873d;text-align: center;">Monthly Events
<div style="border:2px solid black; background-color:#ffb380; padding:10px; text-align: center; border-radius:8px; width:65%;" > <p style="font-size:22px;>Oakland FamilySearch Library ONGOING African American Research Workshop  Meets the 4th Wednesday of every month 6pm - 8pm For Zoom link to virtual workshop, click here.   <div style="border:1px solid black; background-color: #ffd1b3; padding:10px; border-radius:8px; width:100%;" >  - Facilitator, Pat Jenkins - This is an ongoing, free, hands-on research workshop comprised of African Americans, also referred to as Black or Afro-American, or those who harmonize with Sub-Saharan Africa, with ancestry, citizenship, or residency in the United States. The workshop is an interactive exchange of research tools, methods and systems, and discussions necessary for progress at individual levels of family histories and genealogies impacted by the 16th Century removal of Africans to America as slaves. For additional information E-Mail: [mailto:Pat4gene@gmail.com pat4gene@gmail.com]