Tony Burroughs is an internationally known genealogist, author, teacher and lecturer. He teaches genealogy at Chicago State University and is the president of Black Roots. Mr. Burroughs appeared as the African American genealogy expert in the public television series, Ancestors (February 1997). In 1996, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Genealogical Society and co-authored the African-American Genealogical Sourcebook (Gale Research 1995).
Mr. Burroughs has been practicing genealogy for twenty years, having traced two family lines back seven generations. He has extensive experience in libraries, archives, historical societies and county courthouses. He has conducted the African-American Genealogy workshop at the National Archives – Great Lakes Region for nine years. He also lectures at local, state and national genealogical conferences and has given half-day and full-day workshops in over a dozen cities. He was the APG 20th Anniversary Luncheon Speaker at FGS in 1999, the Keynote Banquet Speaker at GENTECH 98 in Fort Wayne, and the James Dent Walker Memorial Lecturer in Richmond, Virginia in 1994. His talks are on all aspects of American Genealogy, African-American Genealogy and technology. His presentations include exciting color slides to bring family history alive.
Mr. Burroughs is a graduate of the National Institute of Genealogical Research in Washington, D.C. and the Institute of Genealogy and History at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. Board positions include: New England Historic Genealogical Society, Association of Professional Genealogists, Gentech, and an FGS Delegate. Past board positions include: President of the Afro-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Chicago, Inc.; Federation of Genealogical Societies and the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Postal Advisory Committee. He is also past curator of the African-American Genealogy Collection at the Avalon Branch of the Chicago Public Library.
Black Roots
P.O. Box 53091
Chicago, IL 60653-0091
773-924-7172Lectures by Mr. Burroughs
Beginning and Intermediate Researchers
Black Roots: Tracing the Family Tree
The Six Phases of African American Genealogy
Tracing African Americans in Cities & Towns
Researching Vital Records
Jumping the Broom: Marriage Records for African-Americans
Researching Census Records
Intermediate and advanced researchers
Locating Sleepy Hollow: Or Anywhere Else Your Ancestor Lived
After the Census in African-American Genealogy
Intermediate African American Genealogy
Using the LDS for African-American Genealogy
Biographies, Autobiographies and Family Histories
Researching Obituaries for African Americans
Using Records at the National Archives
The Nature of Genealogy
Creating Order Out of Chaos
Advanced researchers
Military Records for African Americans
Researching Buffalo Soldiers
Blacks in the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau Research
Researching the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company
Problem Solving in African American Genealogy
Out of the Mouths of Slaves
African American Surnames
Forty Acres and a Mule
Methods & Sources of Identifying Slave Owners
Slave Genealogy
New Sources for Researching Slaves
