African American Genealogy Resources
African American Genealogy
Records help re-root family treesComedian Whoopi Goldberg once joked about friends who can trace their ancestors back to 15th century France and England’s Tudor...
Breaking Down ‘Wall Of Slavery’Maddy McCoy’s passion for genealogical connections has some extremely personal roots. The Fairfax City resident, who is compiling...
Coloring TreeWhen Gloria Brogdon’s great-grandfather died just after the Civil War, some white folks came to the house in Charlotte County and...
Descendants of slaveholder join to note historyDeborah Bartley said her family always wondered why she liked sugar so much. Or why she always wanted to spend time near the water....
General Genealogy
Avid Genealogy Buff Became WebmasterPORT NECHES, TX (PRWEB) June 20, 2005 — Bill Cribbs wasn’t always interested in his family history. Not until he met a...
Cathy’s family secretsWHEN Cathy Freeman had “cos I’m free” tattooed on her arm, she meant it as a bold statement about love and identity....
African American History
A legacy left unmarked for black Civil War vetsHILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - For more than a century, the bodies of some 300 black soldiers who died in the Civil War have lain in unmarked...
About 200 are believed buried in old African-American graveyard in MansfieldMichael Evans stooped over and scratched into the earth as though preparing a future garden instead of tending to the past.Ripping...
McWorter memorialized at presidential libraryA life-size bronze bust of a former slave who founded a west-central Illinois town was donated by his descendants Thursday to the Abraham...
American and World History
New Exhibit Profiles Ontario’s Early Black HistoryTORONTO and DRESDEN, ON, Dec. 13 /CNW/ - A traveling exhibit called Enslaved Africans in Upper Canada will leave a lasting legacy...



