01.10.08

Nessa Baskerville Johnson, noted genealogist, author and Storyteller will be the first guest speaker for the 2009 Genealogy Workshop series, held at Richmond, Virginia's William Byrd Community House.   Ms. Johnson's presentation reveals how her "family research" led to  uncovering a church parish's genealogical lines and subsequently utilizing a city's genealogy structure to penetrate and cause a shift in political, economic, artistic, and other systems. 

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