Catonsville family traces roots to Virginia settlers in 1600s A century ago, the Page family settled in Catonsville, founded a church and operated the neighborhood...
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Early African American Landowners From the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century, Fairfax County counted 66 African American landowners. In that short time...
Read moreNews Roundup: Bermuda Genealogist, New Slave Database, Brazil Slave Market Uncovered
Digging up family trees When Glen Ming started researching his family tree in 1995 he didn’t know his grandfather’s name. Since then he has become an...
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Jean Toomer’s Conflicted Racial Identity @ The Chronicle Review Did Jean Toomer consider himself black, mixed or American? Rudolph P. Byrd and Henry Louis Gates...
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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...
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