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NEWS ITEM - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 13, 2006

Black genealogy group meeting...

The next meeting of the African American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley
(AAGGMV) will be held Saturday, March 25, 2006, 1:00 p.m. at the Cyrene African
Methodist Episcopal Church, 227 W. Ash Street, Piqua, OH.

The featured speaker will be Mr. Lawrence Hamilton, an AAGGMV founder and a well known
family historian and genealogist-lecturer in the Miami Valley, whose topic will be:
“Utilizing the Bible as a Family History Resource.” A brief business meeting will follow
his presentation.

Mr Hamilton has lectured and written extensively on African American genealogy and his
family research. He most recently spoke at Edison State College, Piqua, in February on
the Randolph Freedmen - former slaves granted their freedom in Virginia before the Civil
War and who settled in Southern Ohio near Piqua. Descendants of the family remain
today in the Miami Valley. In corporation with Cincinnati-Hamilton Public Library, Mr
Hamilton was part of a segment of the PBS-TV production: “The History Detective,”
which aired nationally last year. He was recently the focus of a story in The Cincinnati
Enquirer that dealt with finding African American roots at the Cincinnati library. Mr
Hamilton has traced his family’s roots back to the 1790s.

Mr. Hamilton is a retired educator from Piqua High School where he was Chairman of the
Social Studies Department and was twice nominated for Teacher of the Year. He earned
a Masters Degree in Education from Wright State University and has pursued graduate
studies at Edison State College in Piqua, and The University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.

The meeting is free and open to the public.

Web site: www.aaggmv.org

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Contact: Robert L. Harris, African American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley, P.O.
Box 485, Yellow Springs, OH. (937)767-1949. E-mail: <rharris25@woh.rr.com>