Renowned and noted Genealogist in Louisiana for the past fourteen years. Analytical, research and persuasive with strong skills in teaching, conducting, documenting, preserving genealogy research materials.

TEACHING AND CONDUCTING SEMINARS AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

Designed methodologies for African American genealogy research.  Topics range from how to research your family history, how to collect oral history, document and preserved your family historical information. Taught genealogy in after school program for children Found a genealogy camp for children Founder of the African American Genealogy Connection, Inc. Producer/Host of two local Educational Television Programs in New Orleans, LA. Knowing Your Family History Educational Television Program African Roots Educational Television Program Executive Producer a documentary entitled...The Untold Story " Slavery In The 20th Century"

HUMAN INTEREST AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCES

Donated to the Amistad Research Center, a collection of papers and documents. The collection consists of documents of World War II African Americans soldiers of St. Helena Parish and Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. The Harrell Family personal papers.

2005. Antoinette and her colleagues C.C. Campbell Rock and Claudette Hurd found a genealogy camp for children. Many articles were published on the Youth Genealogy Camp. The camp received National and International media coverage.

2001. Antoinette, her son Bernard and IIona Lyttle complied and recorded nine African American cemeteries in St. Helena Parish and Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.

PUBLISHED BOOKS/PUBLICATIONS

You Are My Shadow " The Harrell Family History", Self-published trade paperback, 114 pages, photos, containing the Harrell Family History. It is the first African American Family History book to be placed on the shelves of the Amite Genealogy Library Family History section. Her works has been featured in People Magazine, Nightline New with Ted Koppel, Jet, and many other National and International Media.

LAST SLAVES OF MISSISSIPPI " 20TH Century Slavery"

For the past ten years, Antoinette Harrell has been researching, documenting and conducting lectures on the subject of Peonage " Involuntary Servitude". In 2003 she met a family in Amite, Louisiana who said they were held as slaves until 1961. Antoinette's peonage research has proven that slavery didn't end for hundreds of thousands of people in sixteen states in the U.S and sixteen counties in Mississippi.