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 on...
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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 right!...
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by Toni | Oct 4, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research |
This is how African American genealogy moves forward: slowly, methodically. When I moved to Columbia, South Carolina in 2005, I came across Lowry Ware’s name among the library book shelves at Richland Library. I looked for what I could find there on Beverly Vance...
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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 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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