Safeguards are not be keeping pace with the pace of genetic testing technology, a Stanford University bioethicist warns. In an interview for the Stanford School of...
Read moreTracing Slave Ancestry Just Got Easier
Host Liane Hansen speaks with George Tyson, president of the Virgin Islands Social History Association, about a comprehensive collection of records from the Caribbean...
Read moreHistory and faith: Tracing the first black family in America
For 30 years Thelma Williams has spent more time with Anthony and Isabella and their child, William, than she has with many of her living relatives. She sneaks out to...
Read moreNyack professor uncovers history of ex-slave’s success
When she died in 1879, Cynthia Hesdra – a black ex-slave – was worth an estimated $2 million in today’s dollars, making her one of the wealthiest...
Read morePeggy Negro, 22 Years: Who Was She?
Just up the bank from Town Pond in East Hampton’s South End Burying Ground stands a small, brown headstone that reads: Here lies the remains of Peggy Negro Serv. to...
Read moreAncestry.com Launches One of the Most Comprehensive Collections of Caribbean Slave Records
PROVO, UT–(Marketwire – July 16, 2009) – Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online commercial resource for family history, today announced that...
Read moreProQuest Announces ProQuest African American Heritage
ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 10, 2009 – ProQuest announces the first digital library resource dedicated to the unique needs of African American genealogical research...
Read moreFamily roots lure many African-Americans back to South
Anita Davenport’s curiosity about her family’s past began with the photographs that surrounded her. She said she wanted to know the stories behind the...
Read moreRare piece of local black history for sale for $68K
The small, stained document is chipped on its edges and weak at its folds, but it represents an important piece of July 4 history concerning an African American man...
Read moreWoman will keep trying to join DAR
Keep trying. That’s the message Yvonne Studevan received from the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her membership application had been unusual in every...
Read moreSouth county resident explores the many branches of her family tree
Elinor Thompson decided about 10 years ago to begin researching her family history. That isn’t uncommon. By some accounts, genealogy is the fastest growing...
Read moreAn Index to African-American History becoming a reality in Saratoga County (NY)
During my visit with Jane Meader Nye, volunteer in the Saratoga County Historian’s Office, I was able to see her current project–an Index to African-American...
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