Author bio

 

Alex Colvin was an in-demand investigative journalist in the early 1990s with free-lance and staff positions with  Houston Press, Public News, Montrose Voice, and Innerview Magazine. He built on that foundation and began serving Genealogy clients professionally in 2005.  With his investigative background, he excelled in his academic research training while completing 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 and again in his senior year in the  Journal of the American Revolution. He continued publishing  at researchgate.net and academia.edu.   Today he brings his years of professional skills to his business,  Colvin Genealogy which serves clients from coast to coast providing them with solid empirical results.  He is also a volunteer archivist for The National Archives and Records Administration and a citizen transcriptionist for the The Library of Congress and smaller repositories. His genealogical work is featured  at his two websites: The Colvin Study, which helps the thousands of living descendant of an 18th century Virginia progenitor discover their heritage,  and Narratives in Black and White, which showcases reconstructed biographies of historically-ignored mixed-race couples from the antebellum and beyond.     

 

Contact: narrativesinblackandwhite@gmail.com

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