Alex Colvin, owner of Colvin Genealogy, was an in-demand investigative journalist in the early 1990s with free-lance and staff positions with Houston Press, Public News, Montrose Voice, and Innerview Magazine, 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, 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 and again in his senior year in the "Journal of the American Revolution." He continued publishing at researchgate.net and academia.edu. Today he brings his years of professional skills to "Colvin Genealogy Research Services" which serves clients coast to coast providing them with solid results. He is also a volunteer archivist for The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and a Citizen Transcriptionist for Library of Congress as well as smaller repositories. His public work is featured at his two websites: "The Colvin Study," which helps the thousands of living descendant of an 18th century Virginia progenitor discover their heritage, and "Narratives in Black and White, " a more scholarly approach to overlooked history, as 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.

Alex Colvin, owner of Colvin Genealogy, was an in-demand investigative journalist in the early 1990s with free-lance and staff positions with Houston Press, Public News, Montrose Voice, and Innerview Magazine, 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, 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 and again in his senior year in the "Journal of the American Revolution." He continued publishing at researchgate.net and academia.edu. Today he brings his years of professional skills to "Colvin Genealogy Research Services" which serves clients coast to coast providing them with solid results. He is also a volunteer archivist for The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and a Citizen Transcriptionist for Library of Congress as well as smaller repositories. His public work is featured at his two websites: "The Colvin Study," which helps the thousands of living descendant of an 18th century Virginia progenitor discover their heritage, and "Narratives in Black and White, " a more scholarly approach to overlooked history, as 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.