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...
Read moreOld 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...
Read moreBlack 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...
Read moreExploring 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...
Read moreA 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...
Read moreIn 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...
Read moreOld 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...
Read morePiece 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...
Read moreNorthern 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...
Read moreTributes.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...
Read moreGenealogy 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...
Read moreRemembering 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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