by Toni | Jan 30, 2019 | Alana Thevenet's Archive: Freedmen's Bureau Records
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATIONMicrofilm Publications Roll 104, Target 6 Labor Contracts Series I (1-106) 1866 Union District, South Carolina Freedmen’s Labor Contracts Transcribed by Alana Thevenet Source Citation “South Carolina,...
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by Toni | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
Rev. Ulysses S. Rice, Jr. (1925-2014) was the great grandson of Henry and Mary Smith. Emory Wallace Vance, Sr., my grandfather, was Henry’s sister’s, Jane Smith Johnson McCoy’s grandson. With African American genealogy, the simplest relationships have to be scoured...
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by Toni | Jan 24, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
African American genealogy is not easy. Having an enslaved family makes it so difficult to trace your family, but I have been blessed to discover that they my family knew branches of the family back then. They kept in touch without the modern-day technology that we...
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by Toni | Jan 17, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
After I had discovered that Henry Smith was the brother of Jane Smith Johnson McCoy from the letter of my grandfather, Emory Wallace Vance, Sr., grandson of Jane, I decided to look into the descendants of Henry and Mary Smith and the enslaver of Henry Smith, John...
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by Toni | Jan 9, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
When you conduct African American genealogy, you must consult oral history interviews, those you took and ones that exist before you began. I would be remiss if I claimed to do all this research on my own. On the Johnson-Vance side of my family, I was very fortunate...
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