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Find Your African and Indigenous Ancestors Using AncestryDNA Results
This event happened on Thu, Feb 18, 2021
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Overview
151 Lovely Attendees
151 Lovely Attendees
Your Host
Shellie Baxter
CEO/Founder at Our Genetic Legacy Inc.
San Diego
Shellie Baxter is a storyteller, founder, and fearless dream-chaser. After 20 years as a stay-at-home mom, she launched Our Genetic Legacyâa nonprofit that reimagines how history is told by centering the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Through DNA, drones, and digital storytelling, Shellieâs work empowers young people to uncover and preserve their heritage in groundbreaking ways.
She created the We The People Museum, the worldâs first virtual BIPOC history museum, and leads programs like the DRONe Project, History Makers Workshop, and Underwater Explorer Programâturning youth into certified drone pilots, authors, and marine archaeologists.
Shellieâs currently working on her scuba certification, dreams of skydiving in New Zealand, and is always in a playful standoff with the squirrels in her garden. She believes history isnât just what we inheritâitâs what we create.
About this FieldTrip
Are you looking to find your native African and Indigenous ancestry using your DNA results? This workshop will teach you how to maximize your results and develop a research plan focused on finding native African and Indigenous ancestry.
This workshop will use the characters of HBOâs Watchmen to take you on this Legacy Tracing⢠journey.
Participants will learn Legacy Tracingâ˘, a methodology that teaches:
(1) how to maximize DNA results;
(2) find public evidentiary documents;
(3) locate privately held documents;
(4) conduct and publish oral interviews;
(5) examine research in the proper context of American history;
(6) organize research to write legacy stories based on evidence and
(7) strategies and practices for coping with âthe truth.â
Participants should come with a desire to learn more about finding ancestral legacies and have a way to take notes.
About your Host Shellie Baxter is the CEO and Founder of Our Genetic Legacy where she runs the History Makers Workshop which teaches Legacy TracingÂŽ for the purpose of writing legacy stories to be included in new American history books published by Our Genetic Legacy.
What to expect
Lecture format!
This is a more traditional format where participants absorb information through presentations and talks.
Real-time only!
This FieldTrip will not be recorded.
This FieldTrip was made possible by
Your Host
Shellie Baxter
CEO/Founder at Our Genetic Legacy Inc.
San Diego
About Shellie Baxter
Shellie Baxter is a storyteller, founder, and fearless dream-chaser. After 20 years as a stay-at-home mom, she launched Our Genetic Legacyâa nonprofit that reimagines how history is told by centering the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Through DNA, drones, and digital storytelling, Shellieâs work empowers young people to uncover and preserve their heritage in groundbreaking ways.
She created the We The People Museum, the worldâs first virtual BIPOC history museum, and leads programs like the DRONe Project, History Makers Workshop, and Underwater Explorer Programâturning youth into certified drone pilots, authors, and marine archaeologists.
Shellieâs currently working on her scuba certification, dreams of skydiving in New Zealand, and is always in a playful standoff with the squirrels in her garden. She believes history isnât just what we inheritâitâs what we create.
Attendees
Amy Calder
Veronica Smith
Cynthia Masterson
Purnima G
Roxanne Chester
Vanessa Paul
Tynetta Walker
CEO at Cultured Roads.
Rachele Perez
Administrator at Treadwell.
Heidi Durrow
Susi Lawson
Brenna Adams
Nyla Williamson
Maryam Ware
Jackie Ayala
LaVita Spentz
Abla Hamilton
Glyn R Oliver
erin wommack
Membership Programs Coordinator at National Museum of the American Indian.
Patricia Johnson
Diva Bahal
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