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Category: Research

Beginning DNA for African American Genealogy

  • Posted on July 7, 2018

Original publication date unknown. By Shannon S. Christmas, MCP >> You’ve talked to every relative you know. You’ve scoured every relevant website, courthouse, library, historical society, and archive imaginable. You’ve even…Continue Reading

1,275 Obituary and Obituary Index Links from the U.S.

  • Posted on July 7, 2018

Originally published May 30, 2018. By The Ancestor Hunt >> One of the main goals for genealogists in searching historic newspapers is to find obituaries. Obituaries are a gold mine of…Continue Reading

The enslaved black people of the 1960s who did not know slavery had ended

  • Posted on July 7, 2018

Originally published May 16, 2018. By Ismail Akwei >> The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 which changed the status of over 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the South from slave to…Continue Reading

Has FamilySearch Digitized the Records You Need?

  • Posted on July 7, 2018

Original publication date unknown. By Toni Carrier >> FamilySearch recently announced that they had added the 2 billionth record to their free online databases of digitized historical documents. The records giant currently adds over…Continue Reading

Georgetown Memory Project

  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018

Originally published April 28, 2018. By Terrence McCoy >> The search for the lost slaves began with a simple question. Every month for two years, Richard Cellini, founder of an organization…Continue Reading

RootsTech 2018 Videos

  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018

Created February 28 through March 3, 2018. Watch  2018 Recorded Sessions.

Common Place: The Lemmon Slave Case

  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018

Originally published Fall 2013. By Marie Tyler-McGraw and Dwight T. Pitcaithley >> In May of 1837, William “Billy” Douglas, a prosperous farmer and landholder in Bath County, at the southern end of…Continue Reading

History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church

  • Posted on July 7, 2018

Originally published in 2000. Month and year unknown. By George F. Bragg >>  When the Church of England came to America, it sought to embrace all of the people, without respect…Continue Reading

Slavery and the American University

  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018

Originally published February 7, 2018. By Alex Carp >> From their very beginnings, the American university and American slavery have been intertwined, but only recently are we beginning to understand…Continue Reading

Look for Your Ancestor in South Carolina Voting Records

  • Posted on July 7, 2018July 7, 2018

Originally published February 5, 2018. By Robin Foster >> For the next few blog posts, we will focus on how you might be able to identify your ancestors in resources generated…Continue Reading

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