Book of Life Workshop

Archivist Tamika Strong will share useful tools for compiling and writing your own family or community history. Associated with the hit PBS series “Finding Your Roots” hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Book of Life is a custom-made, handcrafted scrapbook filled with details of ancestral history.

Create your very own visual representation of your genealogy research and take home a tangible keepsake!

We will supply the scrapbook materials; you bring the photos, the family tree chart and/or any other memorabilia to affix to your scrapbook.

Tamika Strong is an archivist at the Georgia Archives. She serves as the Technology Director of the Georgia Genealogical Society and is on the Board of the Georgia Archives Institute. She has presented workshops at various institutions, including Emory University, the DeKalb History Center, and the Digital Library of Georgia. She leads a monthly genealogy discussion group and is active in several genealogy organizations. Strong graduated from Emory University with a Bachelor of Arts in African American Studies. She received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh and her Master of Archival Studies at Clayton State University.