by Toni | Apr 13, 2021 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
One of the biggest research challenges for African American genealogy is documenting enslaved ancestors who were brought from Africa to the Americas in the Atlantic Slave Trade. More than 40% of those who were forced from Africa to the shores of North America arrived...
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by Toni | Dec 31, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
Did you know that FamilySearch has many free resources for documenting your ancestors who served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT)? Here, we will take a look at ten free FamilySearch resources for documenting USCT veteran ancestors, and the information they...
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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 | Oct 17, 2019 | Beginning Genealogy, Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
“United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014.” Database with images. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 16 October 2019. From “Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 – 2014).” Images and...
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by Toni | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog, Let's Talk Records
South Carolina. Probate Court (Colleton County). (2001). Colleton County, South Carolina marriage licenses. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. Containing marriage licenses from Colleton County, South Carolina, 1911-1951, this...
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by Toni | Oct 2, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research, Let's Talk Records
I thought you would like to know about another collection released on FamilySearch.org containing birth registers for the city of Charleston, South Carolina, 1901-1926. It is entitled South Carolina, Charleston County, Charleston, Birth Registers, 1901-1926. This...
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