by Toni | Aug 31, 2018 | Blog, Found on FamilySearch
FamilySearch has digitized the register of white and colored of births, deaths, marriages and baptisms for the Episcopal Church of the Advent in Williamston, North Carolina. The earliest records record the names of enslaved members, with slaveholders identified. The...
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by Toni | Aug 31, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research
We attended this month’s Lower Richland Heritage and Genealogy Society LRHGS’ Kindred Connection: Sharing Our Stories. The funding for this project came from Richland County Conservation Commission. This meeting was hosted by Dedra Harvin at Jerusalem Baptist Church...
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by Toni | Aug 31, 2018 | USCT Pension Files
Biographical Summary James Perkins was born about 12 June 1840 at or near Pactolus, NC. His mother was Flora Perkins. His siblings were Lucy, born 1 February 1850; Gracey, born 5 September 1853; Sam, born 15 October 1855; and David, born 27 May 1858. The story of...
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by Toni | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research
I read Susie King Taylor’s (1848-1912) autobiography where she told of her enslaved experiences with grandmother, Dolly, escaping to freedom, working as an army nurse and teacher, returning to Georgia to marry Russell Taylor, and moving to Boston. Over a week ago, I...
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by Toni | Aug 6, 2018 | Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
After you find an obituary about an ancestor, what else are historic newspapers good for? Newspapers can tell you a great deal about what went on in your ancestor’s time period. African American newspapers bring to light burials, education, masonic lodges, ministers,...
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