This three-year Laura Bush 21st century Early Career Development Research in Service to Practice Grant at Syracuse University, requests $328,728 (cost share an additional $156,413) for LaVerne Gray, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the iSchool, to investigate the African American genealogical community. The project seeks to examine information behavior, explore familial collection building, and support dissemination of unearthed
histories of African Americans and serve as a Community Catalyst.