by Toni | Feb 23, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research
Have You Researched the Freedmen’s Cemetery? Calvin Vance (1879-1940), son of Beverly Vance (1832-1899), was living at home at the time of Beverly’s death. He had died the year before the 1900 Census in 1899: Beverly’s place of burial has become a...
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by Toni | Feb 20, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research, Family Stories: United States Colored Troops, Let's Talk Records
More than 178,000 free blacks and freedmen served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War, comprising one-tenth of all Union troops by the war’s end. Their service contributed greatly to the Union’s war efforts and marked a turning...
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by Toni | Feb 16, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
FamilySearch has digitized hundreds of record collections that are freely available online. Some digitized collections are indexed and searchable, while others are not. Indexed collections can be searched, while unindexed collections (labeled “Browse...
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by Toni | Feb 14, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research
US Senate Testimonies: Beverly Vance (1832-1899) Testified Before Robert Smalls, and Others More Ways to Document Your Ancestors in Voting Records After publishing “Look for Your Ancestor in South Carolina Voting Records”, we were notified...
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by Toni | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research
For the next few blog posts, we will focus on how you might be able to identify your ancestors in resources generated between 1865 to 1876. If you remember, last week we found research avenues in “Identifying Research Avenues for Rev. Lafayette Franklin Vance,...
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