Finding Your Roots: Free Family History Workshop

444 N. Henderson St., Fort Worth, TX 76102,Fort Worth TX 76102

29 April, 2023

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Join KERA, Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, and our community partners for a free public workshop and learn the fundamentals of family history research. The workshop will be held Saturday, April 29, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., at the Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus, Connection Bay Room, 444 N. Henderson St., Fort Worth, TX 76102. Click here for directions. Campus Map For questions, contact: [email protected] Presenters will include genealogists, historians and U.S Census specialists with expertise in researching family history. (Please see their bios below.) Special thanks to our Community Partners: • Tarrant County Black Historical & Genealogical Society • HOLA (Historians of Latino Americans) Tarrant County • Tarrant County College - TCC Connect • Dallas Asian American Historical Society PRESENTERS • Larry W. McCarty, a native Texan, is a professional genealogist and researcher, who has traced his family’s history back to the 1700’s. His passion for genealogy was sparked at a young age when he read the Comprehensive Names Index for the American Slave and began tracing his family roots. Since then he has become a nationally recognized expert on African American history and genealogy, speaking at universities, museums, libraries, and leading genealogy workshops as well as being featured in numerous articles. • Dr. Peter Martínez is a Professor of History at Tarrant County College specializing in Chicano history. Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, he earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington and his Doctorate from the University of North Texas. His dissertation, “Ready to Run: Fort Worth’s Mexicans in Search of Representation, 1960-2000,” was awarded Best Dissertation in Tejano/a Studies by the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies – Tejas Foco. Dr. Martinez is also a founding member and current Vice President of HOLA(Historians of Latino Americans) Tarrant County. • Susana Guerra Privett is a Data Dissemination Specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau. Susana gives presentations and conducts workshops about Census Bureau data, various surveys and census.gov. A member of HOGAR (Hispanic Organization for Genealogy and Research) de Dallas, she spends her downtime working on her family history and blogging about her experiences. Corporate support for FINDING YOUR ROOTS WITH HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR., Season Nine is provided by Ancestry and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by Ford Foundation; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; Candace King Weir; and by The Inkwell Society and its members Jim and Susan Swartz; Hayward and Kathy Draper; Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein; Nicole Commissiong and Darnell Armstrong; and Anne Wojcicki.