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...
Read moreNative and African Americans chronicle history together for first time in Louisiana
In Natchitoches, Louisiana history was made today. The Native American and African American communities were separate communities in the South by design of white...
Read moreBlack families used south Bibb County cemetery beyond slavery era, DOT finds
It’s perhaps a little ironic that history is coming alive at a graveyard. In south Bibb County near the Middle Georgia Regional Airport, archaeologists have been...
Read moreJuneteenth celebrations make a comeback
D.J. Williams and Ralph Cormier each remember Juneteenth celebrations of their childhood. They have both seen the holiday, which celebrates the June 19, 1865, date...
Read moreResearcher delves into county slave records
“How do you learn about a slave — someone whose imprint on life was so restricted that even their name was excluded from most official registers, such as census...
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