Genealogy – Ann Writes the World

Coming Soon!

Good Genes Genealogy Services is offering its 3rd Annual Black Genealogy Workshops

We’re offering our next installment of workshops centered on researching and locating Black family ancestry results.

The Sankofa Bird symbolizes the future and the past: Positioned ahead while looking back to ensure no one is left behind and to honor our heritage

When: Saturdays, Feb. 11 and 18, 2023, 10 – 11 a.m.

Who: Good Genes Genealogy Services in partnership with Hillside Interational Truth Center

What: You will need to purchase the e-workbook, available online, beginning Feb. 7, 2023.

Where: Via Zoom

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86148300328?pwd=R2djSXUrNXI1SFF1TTM1NlJ3S2lZdz09

Meeting ID: 861 4830 0328

Passcode: 02112023

Dial: 929 205 6099 US

Keep digging to find “lost” ancestors in cemeteries, burial records

Pay attention.

Olivia J. Garland did just that and pushed memories from her childhood to discover a forgotten cemetery where her great-grandmother, America Virginia Fields, was buried in Henrico County, Virginia.

Garland remembered the rural path to funerals that she traveled as a girl. Garland’s remembrance of those county roads in Virginia and her interest in locating her great-grandmother’s grave, led to the uncovering of a “buried” cemetery. The great-granddaughter of Fields, also utilized land records, historical and cemetery records, volunteers and her determination to find the final resting place of her precious relative and nearly 20 other persons.

A grave marker of an African American in the area where America Virginia Fields is buried.

The campaign to locate others buried at the site continue.

Her story is encouraging to those who believe they’ve reached brick walls in Black family research that cannot allow for great outcomes. America Virginia Fields

Pay attention to the conversations, remembrances of childhood experiences, Bibles, diaries and other family materials.

1. Time to get in check (list) with our multi-generational chart updates

It’s 2023. Just in time for New Year’s resolutions to enhance our families’ five-generational check as supplied — for free — by the U.S. National Archives.

This is step one (1) of a multi-phase prep for the Good Genes Genealogy Services’ 2023 workshops and webinars. Stay tuned!