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Ph.D.
Lecturer: Course 8
Deborah A. Abbott, Ph.D., is president of the African American Genealogical Society, Cleveland, Ohio (AAGS).
She has served as an adjunct faculty member at IGHR since 2007. Dr. Abbott has presented lectures at a variety of
local genealogical societies, libraries, schools, and churches throughout northeast Ohio and the surrounding states.
She has lectured at the Federation of Genealogical Societies Conference, (2008 & 2009) and on several genealogy cruises.
Even though she 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 three year family history research project, which
covers approximately two-hundred and fifty 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 she recently discovered entitled "The Register of Free Negroes
in Boyle County, Kentucky, 1852".
Dr. Abbott is a recently retired professor of Counseling from Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio.
She holds both the Bachelor of Science and Masters of Education degrees from Tuskegee University (Ala) and the
Ph.D. degree from Kent State University (Oh). She is a member of NGS, FGS, 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.
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