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[PAST EVENT] Finding Descendants of a Civil War Cemetery, a Lemon's Legacies Porch Talk
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Char McCargo Bah will discuss finding descendants of an African American Civil War Cemetery. She will focus on identifying the individuals at the cemetery and the research plan for finding their descendants. In addition, she will construct a profile of the descendant through the research process. The lecture will cover step-by-step research from 1865 to the 21st century.
Char McCargo Bah is the CEO/Owner of FindingThingsforU, LLC. She has undergrad degrees in Urban Studies and African American Studies. She holds several professional certificates. She has been a genealogist since 1981, appearing in numerous television interviews and documentaries. Char has received numerous awards, including the 2020 Virginia Humanity Scholar 2019 Who Who’s in America, and she was recognized in 2014 as a lifetime Alexandria, VA’s Living Legend. She has authorized an Encyclopedia Virginia article on the Freedmen Cemetery, two books, and an anthology. Her current book is, Alexandria’s Freedmen’s Cemetery: A Legacy of Freedom. She was a freelance writer for the Alexandria Times with a column called “The Other Alexandria.”
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