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Topic: Genealogy
State Library and Archives to host seminar on wills and estates
October 16, 2009 | 
The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) will host the latest in a series of workshops and seminars, titled “Wills, Estates, and Vocabulary,” on Saturday, October 24, from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. at the State Library and Archives building, which is located at 403 Seventh Avenue North in Nashville.
The workshop will be presented by Nashville attorney Paul R. White and is structured to cover the history of wills, their legal significance, their specific vocabulary and how to effectively transcribe them. It will also cover the administration of estates and the genealogical information to be garnered from wills and estate administrations. There will be discussion of legal vocabulary relative to genealogical records. «Read the rest of this article»
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TSLA to hosts African American Genealogy Workshop in July
July 4, 2009 |
Noted author to present African American Genealogy Workshop at the Tennessee State Library Archives. Free event is open to public. Early reservations are encouraged due to limited seating.
John F. Baker Jr., award-winning author
The Tennessee State Library and Archives will play host to an African American Genealogy Workshop presented by award-winning author John F. Baker. The one-day workshop will be held on Saturday, July 25, from 9 AM until 10:30 AM. The TSLA is located at 403 Seventh Avenue North, Nashville. The workshop is free and open to the public.
Baker will discuss African American genealogy as told through his own genealogical research which resulted in his recently published book, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom.
Baker discovered the story of his ancestors quite by accident when he saw a photograph of four former slaves, entitled, “Black Tennesseans,” in a seventh grade social studies book. Later he learned that two of them were his grandmother’s grandparents. Baker has lived his entire life just a dew miles from Wessyngton Plantation in a town populated by hundreds of descendants of its former slaves. «Read the rest of this article»
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