LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson: Author | Teacher | Certified Genealogical Lecturer ℠ | Certified Genealogist® | Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists

Publications

 

Awards & Mentions

Award for Excellence: National Genealogical Society Quarterly 2021

Awarded for an exemplary published article that demonstrates excellence in modern genealogical research, “Parents for Isaac Garrett of Laurens County, South Carolina: DNA Corroborates Oral Tradition,” published in the June 2020 issue of the NGSQ.

Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Genealogy Award 2020

Awarded by the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, for original research in support of African American Genealogy

International AAHGS Book Award 2018

Awarded by the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society in the Non-fiction – Genealogy category

Next Generation Indie Book Awards 2017

Finalist in the African American Category

Phillis Wheatley Literary Award 2017

Awarded by the Sons & Daughters of the U.S. Middle Passage for literary works dedicated to the history of enslaved or indentured people of African descent in the U.S. prior to the 13th Amendment

South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, Summer 2017

“This work is highly recommended as a guide for research.”

Atlanta-Journal Constitution, 20 Nov 2016

“African American research guide is a model for others”

Researching Enslaved Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina is available from the following vendors::

Books

  • NGS Research in the States Series: Alabama, NGS Special Publication 136. Falls Church, Virginia: National Genealogical Society, 2021. Available at https://www.ngsgenealogy.org/ris/alabama/
  • A Guide to Researching African American Ancestors in Laurens County, South Carolina, and Selected Finding Aids. Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris, 2016.
  • The Source : the Garrett, Neely, and Sullivan families : over two hundred years of African American history, beginning in Laurens County, South Carolina : 2010 supplement. Salt Lake City: Family Heritage Publishers, 2010.
  • The Source : the Garrett, Neely, and Sullivan families : over two hundred years of African American history, beginning in Laurens County, South Carolina. Salt Lake City: Family Heritage Publishers, 2008.
  • The Source of our Pride : the Garrett, Neely, and Sullivan families : two hundred years of African American history, beginning in Laurens County, South Carolina. San Jose: Family Tree Press, 2000.

I served as the editor and principal writer of two Church histories that document the involvement of families that organized them:

  • Macedonia Baptist Church 1920-2011: a History of the Little Church on the Hill. Bethesda, Maryland: Macedonia Baptist Church, 2011.
  • Historical book of Bethel Hall Missionary Baptist Church. Laurens, South Carolina: the Centennial 1910-2010. Laurens, South Carolina: Bethel Hall Missionary Baptist Church, 2010.

Articles

Copies of the books listed here can be found in the Library of Congress. The third edition of my family history and 2010 Supplement are also available in various other repositories including:

  • Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, College of Charleston, South Carolina
  • Genealogical Society of Utah
  • Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library
  • South Carolina State Archives
  • Richland County Public Library in Columbia, South Carolina
  • Laurens County, South Carolina Library
  • Charles L. Blockson African American Collection at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  • W.E.B. DuBois Institute of Harvard University

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