Mary Walker was a former slave who escaped her owner, fled north, and came to owna Cambridge landmark. Recent celebrations at the Blacksmith House have brought...
Read moreSouth Jersey history is all in the family
Sisters Marion Buck and Elizabeth Johnston are determined to make sure their family’s historic legacy is preserved. The nonagenarian members of the Still family —...
Read moreAfrican-Americans unearth family histories via new technology
Like so many others, Patricia Watts longed to find out more about her family history. For several years, she searched databases and made numerous trips to local...
Read moreArchives.com Partners with W.E.B. DuBois Institute to Publish the Patriots of Color Database
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — In honor of Black History Month, Archives.com, a website devoted to making family history simple...
Read moreBlair Underwood’s journey to his family roots
Actor Blair Underwood will take a journey to the past when he traces his family roots as part of TV show. The former Petersburg resident is starring on the next...
Read moreInitiative aims to find lost grave sites of slaves
For decades, the stretch of grassy land in an elbow of the Mississippi River held no trace of the people buried underneath. No signs, markers or tombstones pointed to...
Read moreWebinar – African American Genealogy – Migrations and Manuscripts
Thursday Evening, February 16, 2012 WEBINAR – 7:00 until 8:30 PM With Presenters Jim Ison, AG, CG, and Deborah Abbott, Ph.D. : ...
Read moreLong-lost identities of slaves uncovered in old Virginia papers
A historical society in Virginia, where slavery began in the American colonies in 1619, has discovered the identities of 3,200 slaves from unpublished private...
Read moreVanderbilt Group Preserves Deteriorating Slave Records
There are thousands of pages of names, places and people that are disappearing by the second. “Right as we’re talking, we’re losing things,”...
Read moreTale of forbidden love preserved by historical marker in San Jacinto County
A fascinating love story is behind the latest historical marker that has been dedicated in San Jacinto County, a fitting occasion to mark the 50th anniversary of the...
Read moreWoman reclaims neglected slave cemetery from Sanford woods
A small band of volunteers is working to restore a Lee County cemetery that dates to the early 1800s and contains the graves of hundreds of slaves. The burial ground...
Read moreHalifax County woman makes connection to ancestors
Many African-Americans living in Halifax County today are descendents of slaves, but most have a hard time tracing their family’s history. The institution of slavery...
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