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...
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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...
Read moreThe National Archives and Footnote.com Launch Online African American History Collection
LINDON, Utah – (Business Wire) In celebration of Black History Month, Footnote.com is launching its African American Collection. Footnote.com has been working...
Read moreThe mixed blood of Indians explained
Today, eight out of ten Native Americans are of mixed blood as a result of slavery and post-slavery intermarriage, particularly in New England. Further, the infamous...
Read moreStory of Newport family begins nearly 200 years ago in Wayne County
About 1812, when Great Britain went to war for the second time with the United States, farmer William Newport left his home in Connecticut and settled in Sodus Point...
Read more‘In memory of Nancy, a colored woman’
There is no last name on Nancy’s grave. The tombstone is half the height of those surrounding it. But it is there – the grave of a former slave buried...
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