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Finding Your Delco Roots
This free seminar will look at locations in and around Delaware County for genealogical research. It is useful for anyone interested in family tree research, and for historical sites, societies and commissions that want to do research on the families and buildings in their areas. Barbara Selletti will give an overview of various places throughout the area to do research. Sarah Horowitz will explain what is available at Haverford College's Quaker and Special Collections. Margaret Jerrido and Judity Giesberg will give their talk, Last Seen: Using Information Wanted Ads to Conduct African American Genealogy.
Speakers:
Barbara Selletti, Genealogist, Neumann University
Conducting Genealogical Research in Delaware County (PA)
Sarah Horowitz- Head of Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College
Researching Quaker family history at Haverford College
Margaret Jerrido, Mother Bethel AME Church
Judith Giesberg, Villanova University
Last Seen: Using Information Wanted Ads to Conduct African American Genealogy
Barbara Selletti has been an academic librarian at Neumann University for over twenty years and has presented topics on local history and genealogy at public venues. She is a board member for Saving Hallowed Ground, a member of the WWI Centennial Committee for Pennsylvania, co-founding member of 1799 Productions, and a member of the Tapestry Historic Dance Ensemble.
In addition to undergraduate degrees in Graphic Design and Psychology, a Masters in Pastoral Counseling, Barbara is pursuing her certification in genealogical librarianship from the University of Toronto.
Barbara is a passionate genealogical researcher whose family has deep roots in Delaware County and has been working on her and her husband Anthony’s family history for more than forty years. Barbara feels that personal stories are the most important aspect of researching history. She shares this through multimedia living history presentations, as well as through acting in and producing documentary films. Her current projects involve recording and researching individuals associated with the 1799 Lazaretto in Tinicum, making their stories known through the Lazaretto Immigrant and Staff Identification Project (L.I.S.I.P.) and interviewing WWI descendants through the documentary series, “Memories of the Great War”.
Sarah M. Horowitz has been Curator of Rare Books & Manuscripts and Head of Quaker & Special Collections at Haverford College since 2014. In her role at Haverford, she works to connect students to original primary materials, expand and deepen Haverford's collections, and make Haverford's materials accessible to all users.
Judith Giesberg is Professor of History at Villanova University. Giesberg is the author of five books, Civil War Sisterhood: The United States Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2000),“Army at Home:” Women and the Civil War on the Northern Home Front (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009), Keystone State in Crisis: Pennsylvania in the Civil War (Pennsylvania Historical Association, 2013), and Emilie Davis's Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865 (State College, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014.) Judy’s latest book, Sex and the Civil War: Soldiers, Pornography, and the Making of Modern Morality, (University of North Carolina Press) was published in 2017.
Judy directs a digital project, Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery, that is collecting, digitizing, and transcribing information wanted ads taken out by former slaves looking for family members lost to the domestic slave trade.
Margaret Jerrido has been the archivist at Mother Bethel AME Church since 2008. Previously she was the Archivist and Director of the Urban Archives, in the Temple University Libraries. Ms. Jerrido has conducted workshops on how to preserve all formats of historical materials, planned workshops and lead discussion groups on forming an archives. She has consulted with various repositories, community groups and church historical members throughout Philadelphia on how to establish and maintain an archives.
You are invited to stay for the presentation of the 2020 Preservation Awards following the Seminar!
