"Looking Back" Brown Bag Lecture Series

"Looking Back Brown Bag" Lecture Series

Guest Speaker: Sharon Batiste Gillins

Topic: "Your Roots Are Waiting: Beginning Your Family History Research"

A career background in Instructional Systems Design and a passion for family history

proved the perfect combination to prepare Sharon Batiste Gillins to be a genealogy

educator.

Over the past 30 years, she has helped countless novices start on a

successful family history research journey and has also been a frequent presenter at

regional conferences and national genealogical institutes.

Her teaching emphasizes

strategies that can be used to effectively research African American families in a wide

variety of record groups.

Her greatest delight is in helping families identify their first

emancipated ancestors and finds it especially satisfying here in Galveston, the

birthplace of Juneteenth.

Grab your lunch and come join us for this wonderful series.