A BIT ABOUT ME
Genealogist, historical researcher, and content creator, Alex Colvin was an in-demand investigative journalist in late 1980s with free-lance and staff positions with Houston Press, Public News, Montrose Voice, and Innerview Magazine to name a few, with 90% of his work being cover stories or front-page features. He built on that foundation and began serving genealogy clients professionally in 2005. With his investigative background, he returned to academia and excelleld in his academic writing assignments and essays while pursuing his BA in History at the University of Houston where he focused on U.S. Southern Studies and minored in Cultural Anthropology.
His academic work was first published in his junior year in Houston History Magazine and again in his senior year in the Journal of the American Revolution. He continues publishing at researchgate.net and academia.edu. where he has attracted hundreds of followers from various academic institutions worldwide. This is the skill level and professionalism he brings to Colvin Genealogy Research Services which serves clients coast to coast providing them with solid, verifiable empirical results. Alex is also a citizen transcriptionist for The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and a volunteer transcriptionist for the Smithsonian Institute. His public work is featured at his two websites: The Colvin Study, which has been helping the thousands of living descendant of an 18th century Virginia progenitor discover their heritage since 1997, and Narratives in Black and White his contribution to the fields of Mixed Race and Southern Studies which blends genealogy with historical scholarship in order to construct biographies of historically-ignored mixed-race couples from the antebellum, a project designed to challenge wrongly-perpetuated ideas of race relations in America.