25 APR 2026 -- “Harvesting Ancestors – Lessons From the Garden”. (Sharon Batiste Gillins, genealogy institute educator and Black family history researcher who also is gardener, presents a light-hearted comparison of gardening and family history research with a case study demonstrating best practices in genealogy.)  View Chat. 

28 MAR 2026 -- "Shades of Purple in the Landscape of Wards Chapel Cemetery: A Narrative Analysis of Alice Walker’s Home Ground". (Dr. D. L. Henderson, historian, genealogist and preservationist, examines Walker’s family history through historical sources and her writings, offering a narrative analysis of her ancestral home ground.)

24 JAN 2026 -- "Historic Bratton Plantation: An Enslaved Ancestral Burial Ground". (Dr. Lisa Bratton, Tuskegee University history professor, discusses the plantation where her paternal enslaved ancestors resisted and survived, the discoveries and familial connections she made, and the consecration of where they were laid to rest.)