Uncovering African American Family Histories with Sharon Wilkins

This event will be rescheduled for later in the year. Please send a message to queensmemory@queenspubliclibrary.org to be notified of the new date.

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Sharon Wilkins, Deputy Borough Historian of Manhattan, will focus on genealogy research for African American families. Do you want to learn more about your family history? Have you collected information? Learn how to get started on your family research, keep your information organized, and ways to make use of many local resources available to genealogists, including libraries, cemeteries, archives, and websites such as Ancestry. Watch live on the Queens Memory Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/queensmemory.

This event is co-sponsored by the Queens College Africana Studies Program.

Photo: Jerry Lee Simpkins, Hardy Simpkins Sr., and their children are dressed up in preparation for a celebration of an anniversary at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Jamaica. They would perform together at the church. Sitting from the bottom left is Fannie Mae Simpkins and Willa Mae Simpkins. Standing from the left to right is Eleanora Lark, Hardy Simpkins Sr. and Jerry Lee Simpkins. The little boy in the middle is Ulysses Simpkins.