Wayback Machine: When You Stumble on Links That Do Not Work
UPDATE This was shared by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, owner of Nutfield Genealogy: 29 February 2020 "I love the Wayback Machine! I heard that...
Knowing Your Family History Well Enough to Learn More
How many of you know and remember your family history well enough to be able to learn more if the opportunity presented itself? Let me...
My Own Research is Better Than What My Family Members Were Told
George Anderson Tucker (1882-1932) I want to let you know that if you research your ancestry for yourself looking at documents for...
Bishop William Heard (1850-1937) and Family Were Maroons Before Emancipation in Georgia
Heard, William H. (William Henry), 1850-1937, Portrait of William H. Heard, published in the book The bright side of African life, 1898,...
Did Your Ancestor Spend Time as a Maroon During Enslavement?
Sylviane A. Diouf, Slavery's Exiles, (C-SPAN: 3 March 2014) , What is an African or Black Maroon? A maroon was not a enslaved person...
Andrew J. Chesnutt (1833-1920), Born Free, Town Commissioner, Justice of the Peace, Helped Establis
Andrew J. Chesnutt was the son of an enslaver and a farmer, Waddell Cade. His mother, Ann Chesnutt, was a free black mistress and...
Find Student, Community, Schools, and Town North Carolina Newspapers Online
DigitalNC It's important to make sure you check all types of historic newspapers student, community, school, and town. For example, your...
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth T. Chick Remembered in Oral History
In Voices of the Past by Caldwell Sims, a formerly enslaved man, Mr. Milo H. Evans on March 17, 1937 recounted a story called "The Pipe"...
Finding Enslaved Ancestors
We want to identify whether or not we have had enslaved ancestors. We start in the wrong places though. Because I began before being a...
New Book Lifts the Veil Off of Ignored Black History in South Carolina
We received this book review, Virtue of Cain: From Slave to Senator, the biography of Lawrence Cain... Takoma Park, MD – August 21, 2019...
