South Jersey history is all in the family

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Sisters Marion Buck and Elizabeth Johnston are determined to make sure their family’s historic legacy is preserved. The nonagenarian members of the Still family — South Jersey’s best-known African-American dynasty — are links in a chain … [Continue reading...]

African-Americans unearth family histories via new technology

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Like so many others, Patricia Watts longed to find out more about her family history. For several years, she searched databases and made numerous trips to local libraries to research her family tree. It was during an exhaustive search of her … [Continue reading...]

Archives.com Partners with W.E.B. DuBois Institute to Publish the Patriots of Color Database

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In honor of Black History Month, Archives.com, a website devoted to making family history simple and affordable, today announced the launch of the Patriots of Color Database. Archives.com … [Continue reading...]

Blair Underwood’s journey to his family roots

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Actor Blair Underwood will take a journey to the past when he traces his family roots as part of TV show. The former Petersburg resident is starring on the next episode of the genealogy documentary series "Who Do You Think You Are?" - which airs … [Continue reading...]

Initiative aims to find lost grave sites of slaves

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For decades, the stretch of grassy land in an elbow of the Mississippi River held no trace of the people buried underneath. No signs, markers or tombstones pointed to the more than 300 African-American former slaves buried in two cemeteries about … [Continue reading...]

Webinar – African American Genealogy – Migrations and Manuscripts

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Thursday Evening, February 16, 2012 WEBINAR - 7:00 until 8:30 PM With Presenters Jim Ison, AG, CG, and Deborah Abbott, Ph.D. :                   Migration … [Continue reading...]

Long-lost identities of slaves uncovered in old Virginia papers

A historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private documents, providing new information for today's descendants in a first-of-its-kind online … [Continue reading...]

Vanderbilt Group Preserves Deteriorating Slave Records

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There are thousands of pages of names, places and people that are disappearing by the second. "Right as we're talking, we're losing things," said Vanderbilt history professor Jane Landers who has been working to stop it for a decade. "As if it's a … [Continue reading...]

Tale of forbidden love preserved by historical marker in San Jacinto County

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A fascinating love story is behind the latest historical marker that has been dedicated in San Jacinto County, a fitting occasion to mark the 50th anniversary of the current Official Texas Historical Marker program. It’s the story of William … [Continue reading...]

Woman reclaims neglected slave cemetery from Sanford woods

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A small band of volunteers is working to restore a Lee County cemetery that dates to the early 1800s and contains the graves of hundreds of slaves. The burial ground, near the Buffalo Presbyterian Church on Carthage Street, had fallen into … [Continue reading...]

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