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Program: Topics & Speakers • TxSGS Live! • Speaker Bios
Family stories: we hear them, we tell them, we preserve them in myriad ways. Genealogists across Texas are preserving records and family stories in articles, books, journals, and more. TxSGS honors and supports these grassroots preservationists through our annual awards program. Winners are recognized each year at the Awards Banquet held at the TxSGS Family History Conference. Join us this year on October 12 as we celebrate the 2019 award winners and hear Deborah Abbott, PhD, speak on the importance of preserving our own stories.
To learn more about the TxSGS Awards program and how to submit an entry for award consideration, Awards and Grants.
Featured Speaker Deborah Abbott, Ph.D.
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Becoming an Ancestor: Is Your Story Ready for Your Descendants?
How do you want to be remembered? Why not answer the questions now? Who knows better than you the joy, pain, and laughter of your life? In her banquet presentation, Deborah A. Abbott, PhD, asks thought-provoking questions and challenges genealogists to think about their own family legacy. Illustrating the need to craft our own narrative, one that will be passed down to future generations, Dr. Abbott shares a moving story told with amazing pictures in an entertaining manner. Through her examples, learn the importance of reliving your past and reflecting on who you are today and explore ways to remember the past that no record could possibly provide.
About Dr. Deborah Abbott
A professional genealogist, Dr. Abbott specializes in African American research, manuscript collections, and genealogical methodology. She is a Trustee on the Board of the Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS), a member of the Board of Directors for the Federation of Genealogy Societies (FGS), and a member of the Cuyahoga County Ohio Archives Advisory Commission. An affiliate with the Kentucky-Tennessee Associates, Deborah is past president of the African American Genealogical Society, Cleveland, Ohio, and a retired professor of Counseling from Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. She holds both the BS and MEd degrees from Tuskegee University in Alabama and the PhD degree from Kent State University in Ohio.
Dr. Abbott is coordinator/instructor of the African American Track and an instructor in Researching in the South and Intermediate Genealogy at the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) in Athens, Georgia, an instructor at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) in Salt Lake City, and the African American Genealogy Colloquium at Alabama State University, in Montgomery, Alabama. She presents lectures and workshops for national, state, and local genealogy conferences across the country, in addition to colleges, businesses, and libraries. She has articles published in the Ohio Genealogy News and Family Tree Magazine. Dr. Abbott is also featured in “Needles & Threads” on Ancestry Academy, an educational video course for Ancestry.com.
For more information about the conference and to purchase banquet tickets after registration opens in early July, please see www.txsgs.org/2019-conference/.