

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: FamilySearch for Beginners: Marriage Records
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am – Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Learn to trace your family history using FamilySearch, a free online genealogy platform. In this hands-on workshop, site educators will guide you through the process of exploring historic marriage records, with a special focus on the first legally recognized marriages of African Americans after emancipation. Using real 19th-century Brazoria County documents, we’ll walk you step-by-step through how to:

- Navigate and search FamilySearch
- Locate and analyze historic marriage records
- Build and organize your family tree
- Connect records across generations
- Apply these skills to your own genealogical research

Educators will use examples drawn from historic individuals from Texas to demonstrate research tips, common challenges, and methods for verifying family connections.

This program is perfect for absolute beginners ready to explore genealogy for the first time and for experienced researchers interested in working with a new platform or diving deeper into post-emancipation records.

Program Dates:
Sat, Feb 28, 10-12 p.m. at Levi Jordan Plantation SHS, Brazoria
Sat, Mar 21, 10-12 p.m. at Varner-Hogg Plantation SHS, West Columbia
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/west-columbia/familysearch-for-beginners-marriage-records/200029245871455
- **Event Categories**: workshops
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 140

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: West Columbia
- **state**: TX
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1702 N 13th St, West Columbia, TX, United States, Texas 77486
- **lat**: 29.15787
- **long**: -95.64357
- **full address**: 1702 N 13th St, West Columbia, TX, United States, Texas 77486

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site (https://allevents.in/org/varner-hogg-plantation-state-historic-site/10196981)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 21 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1702 N 13th St, West Columbia, TX, United States, Texas 77486
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about FamilySearch for Beginners: Marriage Records ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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