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Lecturer: Course 11


Cynthia Rosers, wife of Samuel Rosers for 25 years, mother of two, and grandmother of four, was born in New York City. After living several years in various northeastern states including New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts her family moved to Miami Florida in 1962. Her two children were born there and after a career with Southern Bell Telephone, several banks and Hertz Rent A Car; Mrs. Rosers began her twenty-two year career with Delta Airlines in 1972. In 1981 she started her own company, Pygmy Corporation. In 1994 Mrs. Rosers took an early retirement from Delta Airlines and went to work full time in her own business, expanding the alterations service to include machine embroidery.

Mrs. Rosers had been researching her family history for 12 years when she became fascinated with African American history and began to study the subject. What she learned became a history lesson of sorts for her many clients. She would share with them whatever bit of history she learned that day. After several years of this her clients started to pressure her to help document the African American history of their county, Coweta.

In 2001 Mrs. Rosers became the only African American board member of the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society at the request of President Natalie Helvie. Seeing the need for preserving Coweta's African American History a separate committee was started which led to the incorporation of the African American Alliance, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation and preservation of the African American history of Coweta County. The organization opened the first African American Museum and Research Center in Coweta in 2002. Mrs. Rosers was the founding director for the next two years.

While gathering family history information for the first Jamaican Blessitt family reunion in 2004, Mrs. Rosers visited the Genealogy Department of the Registrar General's Department (RGD), in Twickenham Park, Jamaica and immediately decided she wanted to work there. In January of 2005 her resume was accepted and she became the Genealogy and Records Research Supervisor for RGD.

Mrs. Rosers was working on her Bachelor of Science Degree in History at the University of West Georgia, Carrollton, Georgia at the time she took the appointment in Jamaica.

January of 2007 Mrs. Rosers resigned from the Registrar General's Department and started her personal genealogical research business in Jamaica to assist migrated Jamaicans research their family history.