Sharon Batiste Gillins: Finding African American Ancestors Through WPA Records

African Americans in the Works Progress Administration (WPA): Their Lives, Experience and Records

Guest Lecturer: Sharon Batiste Gillins

Discover how to use WPA records to research African American families during the Depression. Gillins explores major projects of genealogical value, how to obtain personnel records, and how to use finding aids to locate WPA collections.

Sharon Batiste Gillins is a passionate family history researcher and genealogy educator whose teaching and research emphasize strategies that genealogists can use to locate and analyze underutilized records for African American family research.