As a speaker, she has delivered webinars and in-person talks about the availability and richness of records documenting southerners; pursuing formerly enslaved ancestors and their descendants; genealogical research tips, techniques, tools and strategies; under-utilized resource collections (online and on-the-ground); and much more.

She is a board member of NC Historical Records Online (NCHRO), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing public access to high-quality images of original records and other related information useful to researching North Carolina history and genealogy.

We’ll explore almost thirty platforms/resources (with examples from the US, Canada, and the UK) that we frequently ignore as non-genealogical and heavy into history and social science.  We should “take advantage” of this FREE bounty available to us at our fingertips. We’ll discuss some of the types of information available and how it can benefit our family history research. The majority of these have broad relevance and are applicable to most genealogists.