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John "Raymond" Gourdin is a native of Georgetown County, SC. He has been active in genealogical and historical research for more than 20 years. During 1995, he published his family genealogy -- GOURDIN: A French-African- American Family from South Carolina, 1830-1995.
Finding ancestral connection with Civil War soldiers during his research, he initiated a more detailed research of Civil War soldiers from his ancestral home community and in 1997 he published Voices from the Past: 104th Infantry Regiment-USCT; Colored Civil War Soldiers from South Carolina. Raymond has conducted numerous sessions on doing genealogical research in South Carolina, most notably at the annual conference of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS), in Washington, DC, and at the Greater New York chapter of AAHGS, in Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of the National Genealogical Society, president of the Central Maryland chapter of Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Amercian Society of Freedmen Desendants, and the United States Colored Troops Institute. |
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