by Toni | Oct 31, 2018 | USCT Pension Files
Biographical Summary This pension file was abstracted by Alana Thevenet. Benjamin Cohen was married to Caroline Wilson at Sampit, South Carolina about three years after the Civil War ended. Caroline had been married to Westbury Davis during slavery. Westbury, who...
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by Toni | Oct 30, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research
Antebellum church records can be an important resource for African American genealogy as the records often predate public records that document births, marriages and deaths. Last week, I shared three resources at the room for South Carolina History at the Charleston...
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by Toni | Oct 16, 2018 | Alana Thevenet's Archive: Freedmen's Bureau Records
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION Microfilm Publications Roll 99, Target 9 Labor Contracts (Volume 268) Mar. 1866-Aug. 1867 Rockville, S.C. Source Citation “South Carolina, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872,”...
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by Toni | Oct 15, 2018 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
We had a lively discussion on last Tuesday’s episode of BlackProGen LIVE! “Biology of a Document: From Analysis to Plan,” about getting the most from the documents we have gathered in our African American genealogy research. The episode focused...
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by Toni | Oct 11, 2018 | Beginning Genealogy, Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
I visited the room for South Carolina History at the Charleston County Library in Charleston, South Carolina because I wanted to show you that you should not neglect to check Charleston church records back in 1720-1822 for African American genealogy. That’s...
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