"Climbing Your Family Tree: African-American Genealogy in a Nutshell" 
is the title of a workshop to be given by Middle Peninsula African-American 
Genealogical and Historical Society on Saturday, October 10, 2009, from 1:00 
p.m. to 3:00 p.m., at Angel Visit Baptist Church, 29566 Tidewater Trail 
(Route 17), Dunnsville, Virginia. This workshop is presented in celebration of 
the organization's 5th anniversary. It promises to be beneficial to both 
beginning researchers and to more seasoned researchers who are looking for 
resources to expand their family trees.
 
            Selma Steward, of Newport News, a veteran researcher who is 
president of the Hampton Roads chapter of Afro-American Historical and 
Genealogical Society (AAHGS), will present an overview of African-American 
genealogy. Vanessa D. Porter, Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court of King and Queen 
County, will talk about family research in the county or city courthouse. Edwin 
B. Washington, Jr., of Oxon Hill, Maryland, webmaster for AAHGS and charter 
member of two AAHGS chapters, will discuss genealogy in the computer age.  
Ann Cates, Director of the Family History Center in Tappahannock, will 
describe the Center's offerings. A question and answer period will follow the 
presentations.
 
            Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical 
Society recently initiated the Middle Peninsula/Northern Neck Funeral 
Programs Project, a collaboration with the Virginia Historical Society and 
FamilySearch. Persons who have funeral programs are asked to lend them to the 
project so that they may be copied and made available to family historians and 
other researchers. Programs will be collected at the Newton Memorial Library in 
Hague, Virginia, from 9 a.m. to 12 Noon on October 3, and at the Essex 
County Public Library in Tappahannock from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 3.  
October 10 is the final day for submission of programs; they will be collected 
at Angel Visit Baptist Church from 10 a.m. to 12 noon on that day.
 
            Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical and Historical 
Society was formed in September of 2004. Its mission is to create and provide 
opportunities to encourage and enable African Americans to research, 
document, and publish their family histories and genealogies.
 
            Anyone who is interested in genealogy is invited to attend the 
October 10 workshop. It is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be 
served and there will be an opportunity to view family tree and photograph 
displays.   

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