by Toni | Aug 6, 2018 | Family History Research, Let's Talk Records |
After you find an obituary about an ancestor, what else are historic newspapers good for? Newspapers can tell you a great deal about what went on in your ancestor’s time period. African American newspapers bring to light burials, education, masonic lodges, ministers,...
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by Toni | Jul 25, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research |
The Palmetto Leader covered articles from all over the country, but it also told about the news in Charleston, South Carolina. This African American newspaper revealed stories about churches, universities, and schools. It kept up with the social scene, reported...
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by Toni | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research |
Recently, I was going through the official site of Richland Library in Columbia when I noticed there is an online version of The Palmetto Leader. It has been added as part of the newspaper collection digitized by University of South Carolina. To have this African...
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by Toni | Jul 11, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research |
If we as African Americans were to just take ministers from one area and research the area and research the other counties and states that they serve, we would learn more about their families, people in the new areas, and churches in the new areas. We could find out...
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by Toni | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research |
In the last two posts, we have been reviewing The Dial, an African American newspaper that existed in 1914. The editor was Rev. Conley Lincoln Henderson, and Rev. Robert F. Fox was the associate editor. Let’s now go back to our first scheduled cleaning as a community...
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by Toni | Jun 27, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research |
Now we will share with you even more findings from researching the board members of The Dial, an African American newspaper, that we told you we found while restoring Fairview Cemetery. The first person researched was Conley Lincoln Henderson. He was the newspaper’s...
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