2023 Genealogy Workshop featuring Ronnie Nichols (edited version)

The CALS Butler Center for Arkansas Studies presents the 2023 Genealogy Workshop featuring Ronnie Nichols.
Sessions include BASIC GENEALOGY, RESEARCH MATERIALS FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, PHOTOGRAPHY-Visualizing Your Heritage: “In BLACK & WHITE and COLOR, and WESTWARD AND NORTHWARD MIGRATION: “The Warmth of Other Suns."
Handouts referred to in the program are available here - robertslibrary...
Transcript from Zoom Chat - available in link above.
About the Speaker
Ronnie A. Nichols, a descendant of a Black Civil War veteran, is a scholar of the American Civil War, focusing especially on the role of soldiers of African descent. A native of Little Rock, Arkansas, Nichols graduated from Central High School and then the University of Arkansas at Little Rock with a bachelor’s in art and a minor in American history. He holds an MFA from Otis Arts Institute of Los Angeles, California.
For more than thirty-five years, Nichols has served in the museum and public history field. He was director of audience development at what is now the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, director of the Delta Cultural Center in Helena-West Helena, and director of the Arkansas Commemorative Commission, which comprises the Old State House Museum and Trapnall Hall in Little Rock. Nichols is currently the proprietor of Nichols Consulting, which provides planning, research, and technical services in Civil War, military, and African American history for films, publications, and public programs.
In 1997, Nichols organized and founded the Arkansas Chapter of Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. In 2014, Nichols was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arkansas Historical Association, of which he is a lifetime member. Nichols and his wife, Dr. Sandra Bruce, live in Delray Beach, Florida.
00:00:00 Roberts Library Program slides
00:02:24 Welcome and Introductions
00:11:46 Basic Genealogy
01:08:10 RESEARCH MATERIALS FROM THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
01:51:49 PHOTOGRAPHY-Visualizing Your Heritage: “In BLACK & WHITE and COLOR
02:15:46 WESTWARD AND NORTHWARD MIGRATION: “The Warmth of Other Suns"