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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.