Born at 24th and Linden streets in west Oakland, she attended Clawson, Hoover and Technical high schools. After serving the Oakland public schools for 25 years as a volunteer and administrator, she retired as the executive assistant to the superintendent in 1986. Price also served as dean of students of Holy Names College. She attended Holy Names, Cal State Hayward and UC Berkeley, and has a master s degree in education. Providing genealogy assistance is her modest description for the magic she works with her enormous collection of books, microfilm and computerized databases.
Price employs a vast array of research resources that can yield instant results.
I sometimes follow a hunch and things appear. My maternal great-grandfather, Jordan Hill, was a Union Army water boy in the Civil War. The book covers a period of time that could help explain the flight of her paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Kimble, from Grenada, Mississippi. When some people see the documentation of their family s white blood, illegitimacy, unknown fathers, multiple wives, prison records and slavery status in wills as transfers of property, they can become hostile and sad. Then I decided to convert that anger into energy to do something constructive.