Frazine K. Taylor is a native of Wallsboro, Alabama, and a member of the Mt. Canaan Missionary Baptist Church where she is also the church's secretary and librarian.

She is a graduate of Southern Normal High School, Brewton, AL, holds a B.S. in Business Commerce from Knoxville College in Tennessee, and received her Master in Library Science from Atlanta University, in 1984.  She is a former Peace Corps Volunteer who lived in the Fiji Islands for several years and has traveled extensively in the South Pacific.

Mrs. Taylor is the former Head of Reference for the Alabama Department of Archives and History (ADAH) and is an expert on Alabama records.  She works part-time at Alabama State University (ASU) as an Archivist.

In addition, she is the President of the Elmore County Association of Black Heritage and Chair of the Black Heritage Council of the Alabama Historical Commission. She serves on the boards of the Patrons for the Study of Civil Rights and African American Culture at ASU, the Alabama Cemetery Preservation Alliance, the Alabama Governor's Mansion Authority, and is the President of the Friends of the Alabama Archives. Since 2004 Mrs. Taylor has coordinated the African American Course for the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) at Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama.

Taylor researched family roots and ties to Alabama for the PBS series for Tom Joyner, Linda Johnson Rice, and Condoleezza Rice, for African American Lives 2 (2008) and Finding Your Roots (2012).

She is the author of Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama: A Resource Guide, published in 2008.