June 9-14, 2013

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B.S., Tuskegee University
M.Ed., Tuskegee University
Ph.D., Kent State University

Lecturer: Course 3


Deborah A. Abbott, Ph.D., has served as an adjunct faculty member at IGHR since 2007. She is a Trustee on the Board of the Ohio Genealogical Society. Dr. Abbott has lectured at national, various state and local genealogical conferences. In September 2011, Dr. Abbott was selected to deliver her lecture entitled "Slave Research: A Closer Look at Freedom as the annual James Dent Walker Memorial Lecturer at the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference held in Springfield, Illinois. Even though Dr. Abbott specializes in African American genealogy, she enjoys teaching genealogy methodology to all.

Dr. Abbott is presently working on a genealogical project which traces the ancestry of an African American family from Ohio and Illinois back to their roots in Kentucky. This project which covers approximately two-hundred years, was highlighted in February, 2008 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper under the title "Six- Volumes to Amplify a Family History". Dr. Abbott is also working on a genealogy transcription project focused on a court document of free blacks of Boyle County, Kentucky.

Dr. Abbott is a recently retired professor of Counseling from Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio and past president of the African American Genealogical Society, Cleveland, Ohio (AAGS). She holds both the Bachelor of Science and Masters of Education degrees from Tuskegee University (AL) and the Ph.D. degree from Kent State University (OH). She is a member of NGS, FGS, the Association of Professional Genealogists (APG), the Ohio Genealogical Society (OGS), and the Genealogical Speakers Guild (GSG), as well as other local genealogy societies. She has been researching in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky since 1990.