by Toni | Dec 4, 2019 | Beginning Genealogy, Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records |
You can look up obituaries for any ancestor who passed away between 1862 to about 1992 in The Online Obituary Index online at the Beaufort County, South Carolina Library. The index includes the names of over 24000 people whose deaths were published in the local...
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by Toni | Dec 3, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research |
Bishop William H. Heard, From Slavery to the Bishopric in the A.M.E. Church, Page 14, Arno Press and New York Times, New York, NY, 1969 After rereading “One More Day’s Journey,” by Dr. Allen Ballard, I decided to get the autobiography which was cited in his notes on...
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by Toni | Nov 19, 2019 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research |
One More Days Journey: The Story of a Family and a People I remember finding out One More Days Journey: The Story of a Family and a People, by Dr. Allen B. Ballard existed from a family reunion while I was living in Joliet, Illinois. I visited the library to discover...
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by Toni | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
Edmund L Drago, Hurrah for Hampton! Black Red Shirts in South Carolina During Reconstruction (Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press; March 1, 1999) In my search for Beverly Vance (1899-1832), I came across Hurrah for Hampton! Black Red Shirts in South Carolina...
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by Toni | Oct 31, 2019 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research
Eric Foner, Freedom’s Lawmakers (Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press, 1996) I ordered this book to document my great great grandfather, Beverly Vance (1832-1899) years ago. The author of the book states that he included black officeholders during...
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by Toni | Oct 30, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
“United States Census, 1870,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6WS9-C83?cc=1438024&wc=92KC-PT1%3A518655201%2C519483101%2C518737801 : 14 June 2019), South Carolina > Abbeville > Greenwood...
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