Speaking and workshops
Bringing history into the room
Dr. Carter has taught genealogy for more than a decade and presented for universities, libraries, museums, conferences, churches, sororities and civic organizations.
Topics
Sessions she can lead
Untangled: Discovering Truths in Family Myths and Stories
What to do when the family account and the record disagree — and why, as she puts it, it is the researcher's job to find the truth in that journey.
African American Genealogy Beyond 1870
Research strategies for the point where many family searches stop: slave schedules, enslavers' probate records, and the friends, associates and neighbors who place a family in a community.
Detroit and the Underground Railroad
The city's role on the last stretch to freedom, and the research behind its historic designations — a lecture, or a narrated bus tour where the format allows.
Recording Your Family's Oral History
How to prepare for an interview with an elder, what to ask, how to record it, and how to look after the recording once you have it.
Beginning Genealogy
The first session: what to gather, how to record it, and which records answer which questions. Drawn from a decade of teaching the subject in the classroom.
Documenting Community History Responsibly
Evidence, citation and care when the history belongs to a congregation, a neighborhood or an institution rather than a single family.
Selected past presentations
Where she has spoken
- Wayne County Community College District — genealogy instruction and continuing-education workshops on genealogy and Detroit's Underground Railroad
- Wayne State University — Juneteenth event and genealogy workshop
- Cass Technical High School, Detroit, MI
- Charlotte Mecklenburg Library — “Untangled: Discovering Truths in Family Myths and Stories”
- National African American Studies Conference, Dallas, TX
- National Civil Rights Conference, Nashville, TN
- Detroit City Council — Black History Month program
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Alpha Rho Omega Chapter
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Great Lakes Region Conference 2021
- Jack and Jill of America, Inc. — Midwest Regional Mothers' Conference
- Jack and Jill of America, Inc., Detroit Chapter and Children's Cluster — workshop and historic bus tours on Black history
- Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church — Black Family Day program
- Parkview Towers Senior Living Apartments — senior workshop
- The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers, November 2016