Pranas, Primus, Pymus, Primos and Primous – Adventures in census Searching
Some years ago I asked my grandmother about her grandfather and all she could remember is that his name was Primus Anthony and that he was from Brownsville in Haywood...
Read moreGenealogy News Roundup – August 1, 2011
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 moreI Dream Dead People
Last night I dreamed, for the umpteenth time, that my Grandmother had died. I was at the hospital along with a handful of relatives. They told me that doctors had to...
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...
Read moreNews Roundup: Colorlines, Afro Confederates, 40 Acres Commemoration and Baker Family History
How 3 American families blurred the lines of race “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White,” researches the...
Read moreSam Anthony
Sam Anthony is my maternal great-grandfather. According to legend, when he was a sickly walking baby he was left behind when his family moved out of the cabin they...
Read moreSlave Cemeteries Get Cleaned, Documented
Slave cemetery registry for 16 counties in East Tennessee in the works The nonprofit historic preservation group Knox Heritage and the affiliated East Tennessee...
Read moreAfrican American Genealogy News Roundup
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...
Read moreA Poem for Everlette
grandma, daddy knew, you were dying, but never told us. goodbye.
Read moreAbout My Father
My parents divorced when my brother and I were very young, probably 2 – 3 years old. My father, Julius Charity, remarried twice, producing seven more Charitys...
Read morePBS Celebrates Black History Month with More True Originals
An Intimate Look at Trailblazers in New and Encore Programming Before and During Black History Month 2011 ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/...
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