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...
Read moreRecords help re-root family trees
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...
Read moreColoring Tree
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...
Read moreDescendants of slaveholder join to note history
Deborah Bartley said her family always wondered why she liked sugar so much. Or why she always wanted to spend time near the water. Or even why she decorated her home...
Read moreCongresswoman takes heroic freedmen stance
Cherokee Nation Chief Chad Smith and his supporters denounced HR 2824 by U.S. Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif. The bill is designed to strip federal funding from the tribe...
Read moreAfrican refugees in 1860 burial site remembered in Key West
A recent Black History Month event in Key West honored victims at an oceanfront burial site believed to be the only African refugee cemetery in the United States. The...
Read moreMany Resources Available For Tracking Slave Ancestors
African-Americans have been celebrating their heritage throughout February as a part of Black History Month. For those who have shied away from searching for their...
Read moreCanada still a land of hope & freedom
I COULD feel ghosts swirling through the cold December air. In front of me was the modest grave of John Freeman Walls, a former slave who had escaped to Canada...
Read moreFormer student shares story of royal ancestry
Artemus Gaye knew he descended from slaves, but it took a civil war in his native Liberia, eight trips to Mississippi and years of research to discover he is also...
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