Family Quest Society

03/20/2024

I will be presenting via Zoom "Using PowerPoint to Create Presentations" at the March 23, 2024 AAHGS Family Quest Society Chapter (FQS) meeting. "Would you like to prepare a presentation using computer software but you aren't sure how to start? Maybe you'd like to create a presentation for a family reunion, or to share your research with family members. This presentation will provide basic information on how to create a presentation with PowerPoint, with some examples incorporating genealogy information." If you are not a FQS member and would like a Zoom guest invitation, please contact the FQS Chapter secretary at [email protected].

08/02/2023

We are calling all African Americans and Caribbean Americans interested in learning more about their lineage! Join us on October 18-21, 2023, for a virtual genealogy conference, "Hiding in Plain Sight: Recovering the erased stories of our ancestors in the United States and the Caribbean."

This would include pre and post-emancipation in the Caribbean and the United States.

EARLY BIRD Registration is opening soon!
https://web.cvent.com/event/cb8ef1dc-1eb2-4537-9dff-f79f2d14a355/summary

01/05/2023

10/30/2022

A Bible in the family for nearly two centuries, a Philadelphia-made table from the Forten house on Lombard Street are among the personal artifacts loaned for major exhibition

10/14/2019

The 1900 US federal census is one of the most beloved and richly detailed of any of the US census records. It provides a treasure trove of valuable information that you can use to fill in some important blanks on your family tree. Here is what you need to know about this census.

10/07/2018

https://ancestralfindings.com/8-things-new-genealogists-waste-money-on/

Are you a beginning genealogist? Be sure you don't waste your money on these eight common things that often turn into money pits for newcomers to the hobby.

10/06/2018

How does history becomes real?
Find the links!

Harriet Tubman is well-known as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, but not as well-known for her exemplary Civil War service as a nurse, scout, and spy for the Union. Here is her remarkable and amazing story.

10/06/2018

Getting excited?!!
AAGHS Conference starts next week!
Register here.

AAHGS 39th National Conference is coming to Philadelphia for 2018! The Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society, Inc. & Host Philadelphia-Family Quest Society Chapter have in store for you an incredible national conference for African Americans researching their family ancestry and histories....

09/22/2018

Fellow Family Quest Members

Please tune into WURD, 96.1 FM or 900 AM, or www.wurdradio.com, on this Sunday, Sept 23, 2018 at 11:00 AM for the Interview of President Gene Stephenson on the Michael Coard Show. Gene will talk about AAHGS 39th Conference and the Family Quest Society.

What Philadelphia Lost When it Lost Dr. Walter P. Lomax Jr. 10 things you didn’t know about one of our city’s great men. On this past Thursday at 8:30 a.m., 81-year-old Dr. Walter P. Lomax […]

09/22/2018

17 days till the AAGHS National Conference! Meeting today to get updates and handle the last details that need to be addressed.

07/31/2018

The Family Quest Society is the Philadelphia Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. We are getting ready to welcome you to the 39th National Conference October 11th -13th, 2018.