A LOOK AT CONNECTICUT SLAVERY PERSONIFIED

 A LOOK AT CONNECTICUT SLAVERY PERSONIFIED-My Lyon-Green-Merritt-Ancestors with Speaker Teresa Vega – Teresa Vega has been researching her family history/genealogy for almost 20 years. She began in 2010 to research her family history using a combination of traditional genealogy and genetic genealogy. Ms. Vega has been able to trace several of her maternal mixed-race lines back to colonial New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Virginia. She holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Anthropology and Asian Studies from Bowdoin College and worked as an adjunct professor in Cultural Anthropology while attending CUNY Graduate School and University Centers doctoral program in Anthropology. Ms. Vega is also the co-administrator of Family Tree DNA’s Malagasy Roots Project along with CeCe Moore of PBS’s Finding Your Roots and DNA Detectives.

Admission is free. Refreshments will be Served

 Special Lyon Guests are other Lyon Ancestors arriving form Port Chester, Norwalk, Pennsylvania and Washington, DC