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AAHGS Metro Atlanta

P. O. Box 54131

Atlanta, GA 30308-9998

aahgsatlanta@gmail.com

AAHGS 45th Conference

Held virtually Oct. 10-12, 2024

Theme: "Fighting Erasure:

Staying Visible by Keeping

African American Genealogy

and History in Focus"

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Presented March 9, 2024

by LDS, AAHGS-Atl, et.al.

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AAHGS-Atl Presenters

The Day’s Agenda

 

 

Presented Feb. 18, 2024

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REVOLUTIONARY HISTORY
GA Loyalists, Slavery, DNA

AAHGS-Atl's Terri Ward and

Adolphus Armstrong

for Coastal GA Genealogical Society

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Held February 1-3, 2024

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Recordings on YouTube

Photo Gallery

 

 

WE’RE AAHGS NAT’L 2023
CHAPTER OF THE YEAR!
Members Win 3 Categories.

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CHAPTER MEMBERS!
Committee Volunteer
Opportunities:

Grant Writer ● Research Projects

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PROJECTS

Chapter Volunteers Help 2023 GPB-TV Pledge Drive

Answered phones and took donations "live" in the studio Feb. 26 during airing of Dr. Henry Louis Gates' "Making Black America" series

African American Church Cemeteries in DeKalb & Fulton Counties

Researched and published an inventory guide

South-View Cemetery Biographies

Researched bios of interred for the South-View Cemetery Foundation

1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Remembrance

2006 -- The AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter partnered with the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot to conduct, research and trace African American victims' families to find descendants. The effort culminated with a Centennial Remembrance Weekend held in September 2006. (Articles accessed from Newspapers.com)

2023 – Three Chapter member/researchers -- Janice Bryant, Sylvia Johnson and Rhonda Barrow (standing l-r in linked photo) -- participated in a panel discussion during a week-long Commemoration. View Sept 16-24 Days of Remembrance. View WABE-TV (PBS Ch. 30) documentary

2024 – The Chapter hosted a display table during the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Remembrance Theatrical Tour at Atlanta's South-View Cemetery on Saturday, September 21, 2024. Area actors portrayed historical African American figures buried there.

African American Funeral Programs

Collecting and indexing programs with local groups and repositories for online access

Honored U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) Graves in Marietta, GA National Cemetery

1940 U.S. Census

Indexed nearly 130,000 names in 2012 to make them searchable on FamilySearch.

Freedmen's Bureau Indexing

Macedonia Cemetery Research

Researched interred in 2017 at Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery

WWII Netherlands Black Liberators

Researched "Finding the Descendants" of the 172 African American soldiers buried in Margraten (Details on our Members Only page)

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