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...
Read moreFormer 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...
Read moreBefore 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...
Read moreVery 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...
Read moreStories 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...
Read moreBlackwell 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...
Read moreSlave 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...
Read moreAncestry.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...
Read moreConnecting 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...
Read moreRevisiting family history
Jean Douglas wants to know her name. Oh, she knows the name her parents gave her. She knows the names of her parents, grandparents and great-grandparents. But beyond...
Read moreMan’s search for ancestry, answers leads to Caswell, documentary
At 28 years old, David A. Wilson looked around his hometown at the rough streets of Newark, N.J. and questioned what he saw – black people living day in and day...
Read moreAncestry.ca Celebrates Canada’s Black History With Largest Collection of Online Records
TORONTO, Feb. 5 – Ancestry.ca, Canada’s leading online family history website, celebrates Black History Month with an unprecedented array of online...
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