THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: PURSUING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY IN THE NATIONAL LIBRARY

THIS WILL BE A LIVE WEBINAR, WITH NO RECORDING, SO YOU MUST ATTEND TO HEAR IT!

*ARMA NOVA members who attend will have their names entered in a drawing for a free registration for ARMA International’s 2021 INFOCON!

Journey into the lives of your ancestors through the published records and online resources at the Library of Congress. Learn strategies to overcome roadblocks in the historical record. Explore the untold stories of generations past by searching digitized oral histories, newspapers, maps, and photographs documenting lives in America. 

No cost to register! Register by 3:00 July 20 to attend!

Speaker: Ahmed Johnson, Reference Librarian, Library of Congress

Ahmed Johnson has been employed by the Library of Congress for over 25 years working in varying levels of responsibility. His career began as a high school student working part time in the Collections Access, Loan and Management (CALM) Division. The CALM Division has custodial responsibilities for the Library’s massive general collections. While pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampton University, he continued his professional development training in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division as a Reference Assistant. While there, he assisted patrons who had an interest in the personal papers of noteworthy people throughout American History. These papers include former US Presidents, Supreme Court Justices, and the NAACP organizational records.

In 2004, Ahmed began working in the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room as a Reference Librarian and was primed as the African American Genealogy Specialist. He has lectured at national, state, and local conferences promoting the collections and services available in the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room, as well as presentations with a focus on African American genealogical sources at the Library of Congress. He has revised and developed, “African American Family Histories and Related Works in the Library of Congress” which is a bibliography of printed and digital sources related to African American genealogy at the Library of Congress.

Tickets

$0.00 Member Registration

$0.00 Non-Member Registration