MARGO LEE WILLIAMS

Margo Lee Williams is currently the Deputy Registrar for the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage (SDUSMP), and an award-winning author and genealogist/family historian. Her blog, Personal Prologue: Family Roots and Personal Branches, features research stories about her maternal family from Randolph County, North Carolina, and her paternal family in Suwannee County, Florida. She is the historian for the Strieby Congregational Church, School, and Cemetery Cultural Heritage and Literary Landmark Site, in Randolph County; a member of the National Society Descendants of American Farmers; and a former editor of the Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. She is a graduate of Marquette University and has her M. A. degree in Sociology from Hunter College and an M. A. in Religious Education from The Catholic University of America. She has authored three books: Miles Lassiter (1777-1850), From Hill Town to Strieby, and Born Missionary.