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ONLINE LGTBQ Genealogy

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Learn how to discover clues in genealogical records to find ancestors that may have been LGTBQIA. Q&A to follow. Access sent to registrants.

Dr. Stewart Blandon Traiman tells stories of many LGBTQ ancestors in the historical context of LGBTQ rights. Clues may be found in photographs, the census, newspapers, obituaries, cemeteries, military records, marriage records, and LGBTQ Archives around the world. 

Genealogy has been an obsession for Stewart for 30 years, and he has a wide breadth of genealogical source knowledge, both online and off-line. Stewart began building my own family history as a teenager by interviewing parents, grandparents, and other relations about his Nicaraguan roots. When he married, he took on the new adventure of researching his husband’s Ukrainian and Polish Jewish immigrant ancestors. He’s researched both of his children’s biological origins back to the colonial United States and Western Europe. Stewart has been a CGS volunteer since 2014 publishing our eNews. This year he will complete his six year term on the Board, where he serves as recording secretary. Since 2018, he has been blogging on LGBTQ Genealogy in hopes of raising awareness that not everyone in our family trees was heterosexual. In his previous lives, Stewart was an Internal Medicine physician and a Health Information Technology analyst and manager.

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