Join us on Saturday, May 30th for a special family and community history event with the Lincolnville Preservation & Historical Society at the Ebenezer AME Church! Preserve your family’s history with the IAAM’s Center for Family History, Faith-Based team, and Vivid-Pix. The public will have the opportunity to scan and digitize up to 10 family photos (pre-1970s) and documents* using scanning software from Vivid-Pix (to use the scanner, photos, and documents need to be 11”x17” or smaller).

This scanning event is FREE and will be held at the Ebenezer AME Church.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to:

Join a Genealogy 101 workshop

Participate in our Oral History sessions

Choose to contribute your digital files to CFH’s African American Digital Archives

Younger family members can join too – there will be plenty of fun activities to do – making this a day for the whole family! This is a FREE, drop-in event from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. 

*Acceptable Documents & Images ((Please bring a USB drive!))

Church Obituaries

Funeral Programs

Birth Records

Delayed Birth Records

Marriage Records

Death Records

Pre-1970 Family Photographs

Pictures of Old Black Charleston (neighborhoods, businesses, etc.)

Family Bibles (with family birth, marriage, and death entries)

Slavery-related documents

Date: Saturday, May 30 2026

Time: 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Location: Ebenezer AME Church, 124 E. Pinkney Street, Lincolnville, SC 29485

If you would like to preserve the African American history of your community, and live within a 90-minute radius of Charleston, please contact cfh@iaamuseum.org to arrange an IAAM History scanning day in 2026.