Two years ago I purchased a fancy microfilm reader. Here it is, sitting on a table in the back of my office: And here is the microfilm collection I planned to work...
Read moreSearch for roots leads one man to Cedar Grove
When Raymond Reddick began going through his grandmother’s attic after she passed away in 1985, he stopped to look through a box of pictures. Inside were photographs...
Read moreRemarkable Story of Slavery, Civil War, Forbidden Love, Implicit Relations, and the Decision That Forever Changed a Family in The Knight Family Legacy: One Family’s Story
Pembroke Pines, FL, August 13, 2010 –(PR.com)– Historical Biographer/ Autobiographer Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton today announced the release of The Knight...
Read moreNew Alex Haley museum lets visitors search their own roots
Author Alex Haley, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Roots: The Saga of an American Family sparked a surge of interest in genealogy in the 1970s, is the subject of a new...
Read moreGullah Geechee People, Maroons & Seminoles to Reunite in Florida August 19 -22
On Saturday, August 21, South Floridians will have the opportunity to experience an authentic Black culture that can be traced directly back to the enslavement of...
Read more‘Born’ genealogist finds ties here
Lisa Lee has traced her family lineage back to the early days of legal slavery in America. Her fascination with genealogy began in 1970 when, as a 14- year-old girl...
Read moreFoxx learns his African roots
For years, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx could trace his ancestors no further than a mid-19th century slave auction in Moore County. Until Thursday night. That’s...
Read moreDescendants dedicate headstone to ancestor
For more than 75 years, the descendants of Stephen Tarpley have held family reunions, and this year, over the Fourth of July weekend, more than 270 descendants...
Read moreAfrican Ancestry Tracing Goes Mobile with AfricanAncestry.com’s First Multi-City ‘We Are Africa’ Road Tour
Washington, DC (PRWEB) July 20, 2010 If you think ‘Mobile Ancestry’ is another new app … think again! In an old-school move, African Ancestry, the company that...
Read moreFootnote.com and Lowcountry Africana Join Forces to Create an Interactive Slave Records Collection
SALT LAKE CITY–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today Footnote.com (www.footnote.com) and Lowcountry Africana (www.lowcountryafricana.net) announced the launch of a new...
Read moreConfronting Slavery-In an African American Family
Every African American family has a history but not every African American family knows much about their family history. Slavery tore black families apart and thus...
Read moreDNA testing helps Hampton women search for African roots
Back when Mamie Locke was growing up in Rankin County, Miss., she had a great aunt who seemed to know the whole family story. Not only could she tell who was who for...
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