HILTON 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 graves on the bank of...
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PORT NECHES, TX (PRWEB) June 20, 2005 — Bill Cribbs wasn’t always interested in his family history. Not until he met a tall, burly man with his same last...
Read moreAbout 200 are believed buried in old African-American graveyard in Mansfield
Michael Evans stooped over and scratched into the earth as though preparing a future garden instead of tending to the past.Ripping up weeds and sweeping aside sod...
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Comedian Whoopi Goldberg once joked about friends who can trace their ancestors back to 15th century France and England’s Tudor monarchs. She said she can trace...
Read moreBreaking Down ‘Wall Of Slavery’
Maddy McCoy’s passion for genealogical connections has some extremely personal roots. The Fairfax City resident, who is compiling a Slavery Inventory Database for...
Read moreMcWorter memorialized at presidential library
A life-size bronze bust of a former slave who founded a west-central Illinois town was donated by his descendants Thursday to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential...
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When Gloria Brogdon’s great-grandfather died just after the Civil War, some white folks came to the house in Charlotte County and took away the family Bible — or so...
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