On September 14-15, 2007, the Black Family Genealogy & History Society hosted the Seventh Annual West Coast Summit on African-American Genealogy. The title of the Summit was “Celebrating Generations–Past, Present and Future”.
One hundred fifty-two attendees came from many different states to participate in this event.
During the month of September, 2005, the Black Family Genealogy & History Society was profiled in an Arizona Republic article entitled “African-Americans’ Roots: Group researches lives in Arizona”. Reporter Sally Mesarosh included quotes from Mary Gant and BFGHS president Henrietta Beckford. A photograph of Katherine Ayers, then the BFGHS secretary, accompanied the newspaper edition of the article.
Members of the BFGHS’s Phoenix Chapter. Photograph courtesy of Rod Grimes of the Arizona Informant, 4/12/14.
Welcome to the members of our new Sun Lakes Chapter, which meets in the library of the Oakwood Clubhouse!
OUR 2023 BFGHS EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
Elected Executive Committee Officers
Marie Boykin Scott
President
Rosalind Matthews
Vice President
Lisa Cobb
Treasurer
Mike Ostler
Corresponding Secretary
Gayle L. King
Recording Secretary
Paulette Howard
Financial Secretary
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Martin Luther King
Without love there is no reason to know anyone, for love will, in the end, connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lamont Monroe
“We need to understand our family history, because it has gotten us to where we are today.” Lamont Monroe
Jersey Kelly
“Genealogy is an account of one’s descendents from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.” Ambrose Bierce
Linda Morris
“We don’t own our family history; we simply preserve it for the next generation.” Rosemary Alva