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 Help is available for your genealogical research project. Please inquire about rates by our sister site: Colvin Genealogy

 

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About the Researcher:

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                                            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 to name a few,  with 90% of his                                              work  being front page  features. He built on that foundation and began serving Genealogy clients                                                                professionally in 2005.  Not  surprisingly,  with his investigative background, he excelled in his academic                                                    writing assignments and essays  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                                                    continues publishing  at researchgate.net and  academia.edu. where he has attracted hundreds of followers

 

from various academic institutions worldwide. He is also a citizen transcriptionist for The National Archives and Records Administration and a volunteer transcriptionist for the Smithsonian Institute. His public 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, “ a scholarly approach which blends genealogy with overlooked history, wherein he reconstructs biographies of historically-ignored mixed-race couples from the antebellum, a project designed to challenge wrongly-perpetuated ideas of race relations in America. He is the 7th-g-grandson of the Colvin Virginia line's progenitor.

 

EDUCATION:        University of Houston, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Bachelor of Arts in History   GPA: 3.0                                                                                                                       

 

COURSEWORK:

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History: Ancient Civilization, Middle East, Civil War and Reconstruction, Jacksonian America, American Revolution and American Revolution Military History, Historiography, German and French History, Houston History, Chinese History since 1600.

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Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology, Theory of Archeology, European Archeology, Anthropology of Religion, Cognitive Anthropology.

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EXPERIENCE: 

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• Professional Genealogist  See my LinkedIn profile                                                                                                     2005-present

• Citizen Transcriptionist, U.S. Smithsonian Institute (Washington, D.C.)                                                                     2018-present

• Volunteer Archivist, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)                                                      2017-present

• Contract Judge, HUDL and UIL Tournaments Houston Independent School District                                                     2016-2018

• Website owner / Content Creator: The Colvin Study website  https://acolvingeo.wixsite.com/the-colvin-study         2007-present 

• Website owner / Content Creator: Narratives in Black and White:   https://alexcolvin.wixsite.com/narratives           2018-present

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Published and working publications:

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• "The Divine Covenant Expanded: Rev. Daniel Lawrence Hughes, D.D., (1820–1902)"                                     Forthcoming 2023

• "A Rebuttal to Elizabeth Stiles,"     review,    www.academia.edu                                                                                    July, 2021

• “Miscegenation in America 1850-2014: Toward a Historiographic Overview”   Senior research paper,  UH                    Fall, 2018

• “Religious Liberty and Its Virginia Roots”        JAR Annual Volume                                                                             March  2017

• “Trump and Media Oppression”                       www.academia.edu                                                                             March  2017

• “A Response to Steve Harper”                        www.medium.com                                                                            February 2017

• “Clayton House: Profile of a Home”                Houston History Magazine                                                               Summer  2016

• “Religious Liberty in Virginia,”                        Journal of American Revolution (JAR)                                               October  2016

• “What KTRK ABC-13 Gets Wrong,”              Cougar Paw                                                                                        October  2016

• “Watchdog Groups are the New Journalists” The Daily Cougar                                                                               January  2016

• Oral History, Susan Clayton Garwood   Houston History Collaborative, UH                                                              Spring   2013 

 

Campus Activities:

 

• Co-Organizer, “Project Safe Campus”  (UH Graduate School of Social Work)                                                              Fall  2016

• Campaign Manager,  “Gun Free UH”   Awareness campaign for the UH community protesting guns on campus        Fall  2016

• Charter President, Walter Prescott Webb Historical Society,  “Webb UH Main” Chapter                                               Fall  2015