AAHGS Greater Richmond VA
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AAHGS Greater Richmond Vision
AAHGS
Greater Richmond
2020
Meetings & Workshops
Location:
Richmond Public Library
101 East Franklin St. Richmond VA 23219
Chapter Meeting
Dates:
Sat. January 25
Sat. March 21
Sat. May 30
Sat. July 25
Sat. September 26
Sat. November 7
Time:
10:30 am to 12:30 pm
Genealogy Workshop
Dates:
Sat. February 29 Sat. April 25
Sat. June 27
Sat. August 29
Sat. October 31
Sat. December 26
Time:
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
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Family
Genealogy
Your pathway
to the past ...
The Greater Richmond, Virginia Chapter
strives to be at the vanguard of providing expert assistance, important historical context, accurate data, and the ability to use research skills and techniques to further the field of scholarly genealogy.
Your gateway to the future ...
Our mailing address:
AAHGS--Greater Richmond, VA Chapter
PO Box 27833
Richmond, VA 23261
Email: aahgsrichmond@gmail.com
Find valuable Genealogy web links on our National site:
AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORICAL & GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, 2020 NATIONAL CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 14-17, 2020
HAMPTON, VIRGINIA
Scheduled in March - Marvin T. Jones
His presentation is about a centuries-old community of freeborn landowners and their contributions in and after the Civil War. A year after the Confederates seized a mixed race, married mother of three and used her as a lure, her Winton Triangle community responded by enlisting in the Union military.
Over seventy of North Carolina’s Winton Triangle men fought in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. They took part in the destruction of Charleston, captured what was to become Gen. Grant’s ultimate headquarters, supported the eleven-month siege on Richmond and its capture; and finally enforced the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas after the war’s end (Juneteenth).
AAHGS Greater Richmond
Chapter Meeting
Saturday January 25
Regina H. Boone
Richmond Free Press photojournalist
In 2018, she returned to her family-run weekly newspaper, the Richmond Free Press, following completion of the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.
During the 2017-2018 Fellowship she researched an unknown family story about her paternal grandfather Tsuruju Miyazaki who was arrested on Dec. 7, 1941 in Suffolk, Va. while at work at his restaurant, the Horse Shoe Café, when her father Raymond H. Boone was just three years old. Her grandfather along with at least 120,000 Japanese Americans and anyone of Japanese descent was later incarcerated at Rohwer, a prison camp in McGehee, Ark. and forced to move to Chicago after the war. The family never saw him again in Virginia.
Regina H. Boone is a Richmond, Va. native. She is a veteran photojournalist who worked at the Detroit Free Press for nearly 14 years covering politics, features, breaking news and special projects including coverage of the Flint, Mich. water crisis. One of her photos from Flint was a TIME Magazine cover becoming an iconic photo of the Flint tragedy.
