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November 2, 2008 489 0

Even in Ford family, race divides generations

Was the matriarch of a Memphis political dynasty a white woman who married into a black family? Or was she a black woman with a white forefather buried in her...

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November 2, 2008 518 0

Old Photographs of African Americans Unknown

Old Photographs of African Americans is a website dedicated to sharing those unknown family photographs with others, as well as submitters photographs, in hopes to...

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November 2, 2008 491 0

Black Folk and Their Kissing Cousins

Keith Josef Adkins, who has researched his family history for seventeen years, shares his discovery of inbreeding among his early ancestors. He writes: “In my...

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October 8, 2008 484 0

Exploring Native ancestry: a how-to

In a highly practical lecture Aug. 16 at the National Museum of the American Indian, author and genealogist Angela Walton-Raji offered little comfort for the family...

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October 1, 2008 480 0

A Family Tree Rooted In American Soil

The old plantation where Michelle Obama’s great-great-grandfather lived is tucked behind the tire stores and veterinary clinics of U.S. Highway 521. But its...

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October 1, 2008 517 0

In a Town Apart, the Pride and Trials of Black Life

Eatonville, the first all-black town to incorporate in the country and the childhood home of Zora Neale Hurston, is no longer as simple as she described it in 1935...

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September 27, 2008 523 0

Old Ned’s Cabin A Reminder Of Former Slave

During pre-Civil War years, there were several slaves on the more prosperous farms in the beautiful Holston Valley near Bristol. Here and there are reminders of that...

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September 27, 2008 625 0

Piece of black history rests with Arkansas church

Centennial Baptist Church sits silently on a downtown street, its doors locked and window panes so clouded light has trouble getting in. The roof is sagging and some...

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September 27, 2008 478 0

Northern Colorado Town a Monument To Possibility

Those who settled Dearfield nearly a century ago felt the same tug to scratch out a good life from hard turf and harsh conditions as pioneers who went generations...

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September 25, 2008 479 0

Tributes.com Launches as the Most Comprehensive Online Resource for Local and National Obituary News & Personal Tributes

BOSTON, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Tributes.com, an online resource for local and national obituary news, officially launched today — forever changing the...

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September 25, 2008 561 0

Genealogy Has a New Face – The 21st Century’s Answer to the Past

GREELEY, Colo., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ — Irbo Inc., a company dedicated to preserving the high standards of the genealogical community, today announced that they...

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September 25, 2008 498 0

Remembering Wellington and Oberlin’s great escape

White and black, they stood together 150 years ago and freed slave John Price from slave catchers. Carlisle Township residents Janice Brooks and her daughter...

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