ACPA is a statewide volunteer organization dedicated to honoring, recording, restoring and preserving all cemeteries and burial grounds throughout Alabama. Its goal is to locate confirm and register every cemetery in the state of Alabama, regardless of age, location, or religious and ethnic background. 

Melvin has been organizing and chairing family reunions since 1997. Under his direction, the Reed-Puryear Family Reunion has grown from 75 members in 1998 to over 200 in 2006. The Reed-Puryear Family Reunion was featued in the July 2006 issue of Ebony Magazine and their website, which he built and maintains, was voted the Best Family Reunion site for 2006 by the Black Web Awards. Melvin currently serves as the Family Reunion Forum manager at AfriGeneas.com and was recently named their 2006 Volunteer of the Year.

Mary is a professional genealogist with more than 25 years experience. She is an expert in Alabama slave records, specializing in Marengo and surrounding counties. Mary is the founder and organizer of the Faunsdale Connection, the annual reunion of the descendants of the 81 slaves that were brought to Faunsdale Plantation in Marengo County, AL from Somerset Place Plantation, Creswell, NC in 1843. She is a frequent speaker and workshop presenter.

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Regis  is a Centurion of the Wilberforce Forum, a Christian think tank of Prison Fellowship Ministries promoting justice, freedom of religion, and the sanctity of life. He is a columnist for Chuck Colson’s BreakPoint and a Contributing Editor for Salvo Magazine. His writings on faith and culture regularly appear on Crosswalk and the Crux Project among other places. Serving as a men’s ministry leader and worldview teacher in his community, Regis also publishes a free weekly commentary to stimulate thought on current issues from a Christian perspective.

Lovie is an experienced genealogist whose research centers on Marengo, Jefferson, Mobile and Wilcox counties in Alabama and the Quivers, Davenport, Gaines and Compton surnames and variable spellings. She has presented her research using courthouse records and little known schools censuses at the Annual Family History Conference at Olive Harvey College, Chicago, IL and has been a featured speaker on the Chicago Access Network television program. She is a member of the Afro-American Genealogical and Historical Society of Chicago.