by Toni | Sep 27, 2018 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
Historic newspapers are an important resource for African American genealogy. Runaway slave ads, jailor’s notices of captured runaway freedom seekers, notices of estate sales, private sales and sheriff’s sales that include the names of enslaved ancestors...
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by Toni | Sep 25, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
Last month I accessed a book online entitled “Census of Abbeville Village and Abbeville Voter List May 1885,” compiled by Lowry Ware held by Larry A. Jackson Library at Lander University. I really had found another way to identify African Americans in 1885 and in...
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by Toni | Sep 24, 2018 | Blog, USCT Pension Files
Biographical Summary Albert Fell was born 15 Dec 1843 on the plantation of Joseph Mikell on James Island, Charleston District, South Carolina. In 1866, Albert married Hannah, who had been enslaved by Tom Legare on James Island. Albert and Hannah knew each other from...
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by Toni | Sep 20, 2018 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
One of the biggest challenges in African American genealogy is the sometimes sparse body of documents we have to work in. We’ve been working for years to digitize documents in the Lowcountry, first as Lowcountry Africana, and now as the IAAM Center for Family...
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by Toni | Sep 6, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research, Research Problem Solving
Have you ever found yourself researching a person with a common name? One time I was helping someone research her family history at the South Caroliniana Library in Columbia, South Carolina. We located her ancestor’s will, and she was browsing through. When she got to...
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