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The AAHGS Metro Atlanta cookbook committee is collecting storied recipes and photos for the AAHGS Metro Atlanta 5th Anniversary Cookbook. Non-member recipes are also welcome.
AAHGS Metro Atlanta Recipe Submission Form
5th Annual Metro Atlanta Chapter Holiday Party
Metro Atlanta chapter members attended the chapter's 5th annual holiday party on Sunday December 18, 2005 at the home of new chapter president, Monica Hackney. Members shared their favorite covered dishes and participated in a gift exchange.
November 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting
During the November meeting of the AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter, the following officers were elected to serve the chapter for 2006-2007:
President - Monica Hackney
Vice President - Kenneth Burton
Treasurer - Terri Mitchell
Recording Secretary - Brenda Mathews
Corresponding Secretary - Wanda Brown
Parliamentarian - Dawn Turner
October 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting
The October meeting featured AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter members and guests sharing their completed projects for Family History Month. Chapter member D L Henderson solicited volunteers for two chapter projects that will assist the Historic South-View Preservation Foundation in compiling information for their database of burial records and developing a guide walking tour of South-View Cemetery.
September 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting
During the September meeting, AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter members and guests shared ideas on how to celebrate October's Family History Month. The many ideas discussed included a family prayer, storybook, photo albums and games that could be developed during Family History Month and used during Thanksgiving and Christmas get togethers.
AAHGS National Conference - October 27-30 in Washington, DC
The theme for the 2005 AAHGS National Conference is "Opening Our Eyes...Opening Our Minds." The conference will include 21 sessions focused on resources, research methods, and historical events, experienced genealogical speakers offering advice and instruction and vendors featuring software, resource books, clothes and ethnic collectibles. Conference goers will have a variety of networking opportunities with family historians and genealogists from across the United States.
August 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting - "How I ended up going to Sierra Leone, West
Africa and SOME of what happened while I was there."The August meeting featured a presentation by chapter member Kenny Burton. Kenny related some of the details of his recent journey to Sierra Leone, West Africa.
July 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting - "Presentations at Rhodes Hall"
The July meeting of the AAHGS Metro Atlanta chapter was held at Rhodes Hall, the 1904 Atlanta landmark that is now home to the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. Speakers for the July meeting were Lynn Camp and Paul K. Graham. Lynn Camp, a storyteller and folk artist, who depicts the folklife traditions of Walton County, Georgia through stories, video documentaries, and exhibits, discussed her pictorial history of Walton County in Arcadia Publishing Company's Black America Series. Paul K. Graham, a professional researcher specializing in Georgia land history and records, discussed Georgia's land survey system, the land lotteries of the early 1800s, and the impact of county development in Georgia on genealogy and property research. Graham recently published 1805 Georgia Land Lottery Fortunate Drawers and Grantees. Graham currently serves as Publicity Director fo the Georgia Genealogical Society.
June 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting - "Building a Brick Wall of Solutions"
The June meeting of the AAHGS Metro Atlanta chapter featuring a genealogy problem solving session conducting by members who "built a brick wall of solutions." Members who attended the May meeting were each given a brick (construction paper) to write their brick wall situation on. At theJune meeting, bricks were randomly selected and discussed and all recommended solutions were written on the bricks. The Education committee is planning to use the bricks to construct a "permanent" wall of solutions for future educational events.
May 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting - "Using the Non-Population Census Schedules"
The May meeting of the AAHGS Metro Atlanta chapter featured Arden Williams, archives technician at the Southeast Region National Archives and Records Administration, who discussed the special federal census schedules produced during the 19th century. These non-population schedules contain a wealth of information for genealogists. Available records include: Agricultural Schedules, Industry and Manufacturing Schedules, Mortality Schedules, Social Statistics, Slave Schedules, and the Union Veterans Census. Ms. Williams earned her master's degree in Public History at the University of West Georgia.
April 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting - "Documenting Your Family History on Video"
The April meeting of the AAHGS Metro Atlanta chapter featured Atlanta native, and video and film producer, Cassandra Hollis. Ms. Hollis has been both in front of and behind the camera since her student days at the University of Georgia. She has been associate producer of a nationally syndicated radio program, “Focus on Women,” and was an assistant producer/director during the Atlanta Olympic Games. A recipient of an American Association of University Women fellowship, Ms. Hollis graduated from Georgia State University with a Master of Arts in Communications in 1999. She has also produced and hosted “Atlanta Live” for WATC-TV Channel 57.
Ms. Hollis has directed and produced music videos for national and international broadcast. She directed and produced the first music video of the Changing Your World Mass Choir featuring Dr. Creflo A. Dollar, which aired on Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), BET and The Word Network. Founder of Holy Hill Productions, an independent film, television, and video company, Cassandra's current projects include: "Mattie, Johnny and Smooth White Stones," a slave love story starring Cassandra Hollis, “The Altar,” a short film starring Elisabeth Omilami, and, "An Emotional Affair," a morality tale. A book version of the film “The Altar” is forthcoming, entitled “The Altar: This Is the Place I Told You About.”
March 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting - Share Your Story
The March meeting of the AAHGS Metro Atlanta chapter featured "Share Your Story" presentations by chapter members and guests. Participants were asked to bring a family artifact, photo, or sample of their research to share in a brief presentation (3 - 5 minutes). Past show and tell presentations have included family trees, family histories, antique photographs, historical family documents, scrapbooks, and even "new heirlooms" such as family photo quilts, and family reunion keepsakes.
Metro Atlanta Chapter Represents AAHGS at Black Family History Day Symposium
Members of the AAHGS Metro Atlanta chapter participated in the Black Family History Day Symposium "Gather Your Roots," on Saturday, February 26 at the Roswell Family History Center. The event, which was sponsored by the Jesus Christ Church of Latter Days Saints and promoted as the "premier family history event in Atlanta for 2005, " featured honoree and key note speaker, Monica Kaufmann, WSB-TV news anchor. The symposium provided information and educational sessions on internet and CD-based research resources; local sources of family history data; finding African-American resources; and gathering, recording, and saving personal family histories. Metro Atlanta chapter members hosted an exhibit table at the symposium to increase awareness of AAHGS as a resource for African American genealogists. The chapter also provided membership information packets for symposium attendees.
February 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting - The "Quilt Lady" visits AAHGS Metro Atlanta
The February meeting of the AAHGS Metro Atlanta chapter featured guest speaker, Theresa R. Wilson-Kemp, "The Quilt Lady, " a descendant of Ozella McDaniels. Ozella McDaniels' secret quilt code was discussed in the book Hidden in Plain View by R. Dobard and J. Tobin. Ms. Kemp shared how the Farrow-McDaniel quilt code patterns helped slaves get to Canada via the Underground Railroad. See Ozella McDaniel's Family Underground Railroad Quilt Code Site for more information on the McDaniel's family quilt story.
January 2005 Metro Atlanta Chapter Meeting - Bringing in the New Year with New Technology
The first 2005 meeting of the Metro Atlanta chapter featured speaker Don Thompson of the Genealogical Computing Society of Georgia. Don discussed various technology products that can be used by family historians and genealogists to improve the efficiency and quality of their reserach.
4th Annual Metro Atlanta Chapter Holiday Party
Metro Atlanta chapter members attended the chapter's 4th annual holiday party on Sunday December 12, 2004 at the home of chapter president, Jackie Jackson. In addtition to enjoying a covered dish meal, attending members participated in a holiday toy drive.
2004 AAHGS National Conference - October 21-24 in Little Rock, Arkansas
Several members of the Metro Atlanta chapter: Jacqueline Jackson-President, Monica J. Hackney-Vice-President, Jean Freeman-Treasurer, Joyce A. Matthews-Recording Secretary, Bertha Joshua and Brenda Matthews traveled to Little Rock in October for the AAHGS National Conference. They had the opportunity to experience over 30 sessions focused on resources, research methods, and historical events and to hear experienced genealogical speakers offer advice and instruction. A number of vendors featuring software, resource books, clothes and ethnic collectibles were available, and conference goers shared a variety of networking opportunities with family historians and genealogists from across the United States.
Keynote speakers for the conference were Minnijean Brown Trickey, one of the original Little Rock Nine, and Dr. Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General of the United States.
The Metro Atlanta chapter quilt patch entry and chapter treasurer Jean Freeman's personal family patch were presented at the Sharing Dinner on Friday night, October 22, 2004.
Three Metro Atlanta chapter members won prizes during the conference: Kenny Burton won a CD from the Family History Center; Jackie Jackson won a signed first edition copy of The Inventive Spirit of African Americans-Patented Ingenuity by Patricia Carter Sluby; and Brenda Matthews won a free DNA lineage test worth over $300.00.
At the Banquet each conference attendee received a tape and booklet relating to the Arkansas Elaine Race Massacres of 1919 along with a bottle or tube of fragrance.
Conference members also had the opportunity to tour several venues: the new William J. Clinton Library and Park, several local Black heritage sites, and an exhibit focusing on the Japanese Intermit Camps in Arkansas during WWII.
All Metro Atlanta conference attendees participated in The Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Visual History Project. This was an on-camera interview allowing members to tell stories, struggles, life experiences and lessons about their families and ancestors. Each interviewee will receive a copy of her interview. All interviews from the conference will be housed at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
The 2006 National AAHGS Conference will be held in Washington, DC.
The Search for Burton Ancestors: "For Harry and Rosa"
AAHGS Metro Atlanta chapter member Kenny Burton has published an article on family history research methodolgy, The Search for Burton Ancestors: "For Harry and Rosa," in the national Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Volume 23, Issue 1. Kenny's article traces his personal search for his enslaved ancestors Harry and Rosa and describes the various research strategies and techniques that he employed. The article documents several types of public records and family papers including the transcription of a slaveholder's will and a "sharecroppping agreement." An excerpt from Kenny's article is also featured on the Africana Heritage website.
Photo Ops
Metro Atlanta chapter members gathered for a group photo at the September meeting.
 Members sharing their research and networking at the September meeting.
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