Amy Tanner Thiriot

Amy Tanner Thiriot is the author of “Slavery in Zion: A Documentary and Genealogical History of Black Lives and Black Servitude in Utah Territory, 1847–1862”. She is an independent family and community historian, biographer, and adjunct university instructor in the Family History Research program at BYU-Idaho. Her presentation at RootsTech 2021, “What Genealogists Should Know about the Laws of Slavery,” drew on the experiences of Biddy Mason and Mason’s friends to explain how a knowledge of legal history can help inform genealogical research. Thiriot is a consultant on the Biddy Mason Collaborative project and Century of Black Mormons. She lives in Pennsylvania and is a graduate student at the University of Dundee.