Local historian and genealogist Lori Jackson Black will present “How to Tell Your Family Story,” with a strategy for being successful in developing your own family history at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, in the Mathews Museum, 200 Main Street.
Black will discuss basic research techniques, share helpful hints, review ways to efficiently compile your family data, story, and photographs, and publish them, a release said.
Black is an author and maintains a website and blog focusing on history, genealogy and preservation projects. She is Project Manager for Timberneck, a Fairfield Foundation farm house restoration project at Machicomoco State Park in Gloucester, a board member and treasurer of The Fairfield Foundation, and on the board of Preservation Mathews, Inc., an organization that identifies at-risk homes/structures within the county and works to preserve or restore them. She is the principal and owner of LJB Professional Genealogy Services in Mathews, a full service genealogical and histo...