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Genealogist, historical researcher, and content creator, Alex Colvin was an in-demand investigative journalist in late 1980s with free-lance and staff positions with Houston Press, Public News, Montrose Voice, and Innerview Magazine to name a few, with 90% of his work being front page features. He built on that foundation and began serving genealogy clients professionally in 2005. Not surprisingly, with his investigative background, when he returned to academia, he excelled in his academic writing assignments and essays while completing his BA in History at the University of Houston where he focused on U.S. Southern Studies and minored in Cultural Anthropology. His academic work was first published in his junior year in Houston History Magazine and again in his senior year in The Journal of the American Revolution. He continues publishing at researchgate.net and academia.edu. where he has attracted hundreds of followers from various academic institutions worldwide. This is the skill level and professionalism he brings to his newest endeavor, “Colvin Genealogy” which serves clients coast to coast providing them with solid results and helping researchers discover the tools, discovery pathways, and critical thinking and analytical skills needed for verifiable empirical results. He is also a citizen transcriptionist for The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and a volunteer transcriptionist for the Smithsonian Institute, as well as for smaller, professional repositories. His public work is featured at his two websites: “The Colvin Study,” which has been helping the thousands of living descendant of an 18th century Virginia progenitor discover their heritage since 1997, and “Narratives in Black and White,“ his contribution to the fields of Mixed Race and Southern Studies which blends genealogy with overlooked history, whereby he reconstructs biographies of historically-ignored mixed-race couples from the antebellum, a project designed to challenge wrongly-perpetuated ideas of race relations in America.