General Meeting

General Meeting

Time: 7:00 – 8:30 pm ET

Location: First Presbyterian Church, 189 Church Street, Marietta, GA 30060

Topic: Genealogy Resources at the Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center

Description: Our program is designed to help you navigate the genealogy resources of the Atlanta History Center. The James G. Kenan Research Center is the research component of the Atlanta History Center’s exhibitions, education, and public programs. The 42,000 square foot research center contains thousands of manuscript and photograph collections, newspapers, subject files, and over 4,000 published volumes pertaining to genealogy.

Speaker: Sue VerHoef

Sue VerHoef is Director of Oral History and Genealogy at the Atlanta History Center where she has worked since 2008. She manages the Center’s oral history initiatives including the Veterans History Project, a collection of over 900 oral history interviews of veterans from World War II through the Global War on Terror. She is the curator of More Than Self: Living the Vietnam War, an exhibition of oral histories, photographs, documents, and artifacts from Vietnam veterans and civilians who served in their support. The exhibit was on display at the Atlanta History Center in 2017-2018 and is now available online. Sue creates and presents regularly scheduled genealogy workshops and programs and provides archives orientation tours for public school and university students and faculty. In 2015, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) Southeast Chapter awarded her an Emmy for her contribution in the development of 37 Weeks: Sherman on the March, which aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting. She is a graduate of Brigham Young University and the University of West Georgia.