Janice M. Sellers is a professional genealogist specializing in Jewish, black, forensic, and newspaper research. She edits four genealogy publications and serves on the boards of San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society, African American Genealogical Society of Northern California, and California State Genealogical Alliance.

She is a member of Association of Professional Genealogists, Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy, Genealogical Speakers Guild, and CGS.

She has traced her family to Kamenets Litovsk and Porozovo, Belarus; Kamenets Podolskiy and Orinin, Ukraine; and Kreuzburg, Latvia. Her Web site is ancestraldiscoveries.com.

Her blog may be found at http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/

“Finding and Following the Paths of My Cuban Cousins” (Thurs-113) 7:30 – 8:45 A.M.

Janice M. Sellars was always told that she had cousins who had immigrated to Cuba, but no one could remember their names or even which branch of the family they were from. And Cuba is a difficult country to research. As more records became available online, she was able to uncover enough clues to find and contact some of her Cuban cousins. In the summer of 2015, she traveled to Cuba to see what traces she could find of her family.

Topics: Cuba