by Toni | Sep 25, 2017 | Beginning Genealogy, Blog, Family History Research |
This is the final post in the series about mistakes family historians sometimes make. Most of us use a family tree to keep track of the names and events in the lives of our ancestors. How many of us have considered what makes up the foundation of a well constructed...
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by Toni | Sep 18, 2017 | Beginning Genealogy, Blog, Family History Research |
In Mistakes Made, Lessons Learned and Relying on One Source Type, we discussed the pitfalls that family historians can unknowingly fall into. Another very common mistake is rushing back too quickly in an imagined race to find direct ancestors. This more often that...
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by Toni | Sep 15, 2017 | Free People of Color, Manumissions, Remarkable Documents |
This document, an affidavit concerning the free status of Sally, Harriet and Martha who were emancipated by Stephen Oliver in Charleston, South Carolina in 1819, lists the names and exact birthdates of Martha’s children, and Harriet’s children and...
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by Toni | Sep 14, 2017 | Blog, Remarkable Documents |
The lists below, made in March of 1862, record the names of contrabands in the Union Army camp at Beaufort, SC. The records are part of the collection “United States Union Provost Marshal Files of Two or More Civilians, 1861-1866,” available at...
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by Toni | Sep 13, 2017 | Blog, Manumissions, Remarkable Documents |
This remarkable document, an affidavit concerning the free status of Josephine Pritchard of Charleston, South Carolina, documents six generations of a single free black family, through the maternal line. Surnames are Pritchard, Johnson, Payne, Owens, and Perroneau...
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