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February 26, 2009 362 0

Afriquest, the Free Online Database for African And African American Genealogy, to Launch February 28, 2009

February 26 — After a successful beta period, Afriquest (www.afriquest.com), the free online database for records of African and African American genealogy and...

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February 25, 2009 373 0

White senator discovers family’s African-American roots

It’s often said that a real Southerner can “claim kin” with anyone. Tony Rand realized the same could be true for him. Rand, whose family can trace...

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February 25, 2009 352 0

South Carolina African American Historical Records to be Published Online

Lowcountry Africana, and The South Carolina Department of Archives and History today announced plans to digitize and publish freely online more than 25,000 historic...

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February 23, 2009 358 0

Living a white lie

Three years before MCPS officially opened its doors to integration, Jim Queen was a student with a mixed heritage – part white, part black, part Native American...

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February 20, 2009 441 0

Former Lithonia mayor traces ancestry to Sierra Leone

After a decade of drawing on faded death and marriage certificates and old census and slave records, Marcia Glenn Hunter traced her ancestors back to Samuel Wood, a...

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February 20, 2009 403 0

Before Tuskegee, There was Bullard

He’s probably the most famous African-American combat pilot that you’ve never heard of. His name was Eugene Bullard, and he didn’t fly in Vietnam or...

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February 20, 2009 348 0

Very Rare Slave Quilt Still Survives In Bristol

Slave-made and used quilts are very rare, but there is one here in Bristol. It was made by slave women on the Stoney Point plantation in what is now part of Bristol...

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February 20, 2009 386 0

Stories of early Natchez from a slave named Toney; his role in Revolt of 1781

Toney said he was “a great big boy” when he was taken from Africa — the “old country.” He held his hand four feet above the ground to...

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February 17, 2009 387 0

Blackwell Family History

Thelma Doswell, Certified Genealogist and Blackwell Family Historian, has traced the African-American Blackwell Family back to the slave auction block when, in 1735...

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February 12, 2009 353 0

Slave history often whitewashed

The Joel Lane Museum House in downtown Raleigh is where one of the state’s most prominent families lived, sipping tea from expensive china and overseeing an...

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February 12, 2009 368 0

Ancestry.com Marks Lincoln Bicentennial With Launch of Five New Databases Featuring Millions of New Civil War Era Records

World’s Leading Online Family History Resource Adds More Than 4 Million New Records to Its Civil War Collection, Including More Than 20,000 Letters Written to...

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February 8, 2009 375 0

Connecting to African roots

In celebration of Black History Month, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society sponsored a research day at the Family History Library in downtown Salt...

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