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...
NGS and FGS Merger
Very exciting news was announced at FGS today in Washington, DC. Paul Nauta, Sr. Marketing Communications Manager at FamilySearch wanted...
"I Used to Have to Eat Those"
I remember Daddy leaving his job where he worked for the US Civil Service. I did not know what all that meant back then, but I do...
