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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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 | Found on FamilySearch, Let's Talk Records
FamilySearch has digitized 12 microfilms of marriage licenses for African Americans in Darlington County, South Carolina for the years 1911-1950. The microfilms are part of Darlington County, South Carolina marriage licenses,1911-1950, and can be accessed via the...
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by Toni | Jul 23, 2018 | Found on FamilySearch, Let's Talk Records
FamilySearch has digitized 15 microfilms of marriage licenses for African Americans in Dorchester County, South Carolina for the years 1918-1950. The microfilms are part of Dorchester County, South Carolina marriage licenses,1918-1950, and can be accessed via the...
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by Toni | May 14, 2018 | Found on FamilySearch, Let's Talk Records
FamilySearch has digitized a typescript list of voters in Darlington County, SC, made about about 1876. The list may be accessed via the FamilySearch catalog here. The list of voters is the first item on the digitized microfilm of records from the South Carolina...
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by Toni | May 13, 2018 | Found on FamilySearch, Let's Talk Records
FamilySearch has digitized two microfilms of Civil Actions Concerning Slaves and Free Persons of Color, Craven County, NC, 1775-1885. There are several record subsets on these microfilms, the first contains 2,083 frames of selected records for Craven County, NC that...
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