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Link: https://tinyurl.com/CFHChicoraNorth Charleston - Join us Saturday, 21st September for a special family & community history event at the Gethsemani Community Center! Preserve your family’s history with the IAAM’s Center for Family History and Education team. The Union Heights, Chicora Cherokee & Accabee communities will have the opportunity to scan and digitize up to 10 family photos (pre-1970s) and documents* using scanning software from Vivid-Pix (to use the scanner, photos and documents need to be 11”x17” or smaller).
Please bring a 1 terrabyte USB drive. The digital scans of your documents and pictures will be saved on this drive for you to take home. You will also be asked to complete and sign a short donation form for the Center to add your donated records to the Center for Family History's archive.
Community elders can join too- there will be a commemorative “story booth” audio recording area where the elders can record family memories or historic community memories from ‘back in the day’.
Younger community members can join too- there will be plenty of fun activities to do – making this a day for the whole family!
This is a free, drop-in event from 10 am until 3:30 pm.
However, to guarantee a scanning spot during the day, Chicora Cherokee and Accabee community members are encouraged to sign up for a 15-minute scanning spot by visiting IAAM History Harvest 21 September 2024 scanning sign-up
*Acceptable Documents & Images
Church Obituaries
Funeral Programs
Birth Records
Delayed Birth Records
Marriage Records
Death Records
Pre-1970 Family Photographs
Pictures of Old Black Charleston (neighborhoods, businesses, etc.)
Family Bibles (with family birth, marriage, and death entries)
Slavery-related documents
Date: Saturday, 21 September 2024
Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
Location:
Gethsemani Community Center
2449 Beacon St., North Charleston, SC 29405
If you would like to preserve the African American history of your community, and live within a 90-minute radius of Charleston, please contact [email protected] to arrange an IAAM History scanning day in 2025.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Gethsemani Community Center, 2449 Beacon St, North Charleston, SC 29405-8388, United States,North Charleston, South Carolina
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