by Toni | Dec 18, 2018 | Found on FamilySearch, Let's Talk Records
FamilySearch has digitized 1 microfilm of Voters’ Books, Liberty County, Georgia, 1896-1899. The microfilms can be accessed via the FamilySearch catalog here. To view the microfilms, click on the camera icon to the right of the microfilm description, as in...
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by Toni | Dec 18, 2018 | Found on FamilySearch, Let's Talk Records
FamilySearch has digitized 15 microfilms of Colleton County, South Carolina Marriage Licenses, 1911-1951. The microfilms can be accessed through the FamilySearch catalog here. To view the microfilms, click on the camera icon to the right of the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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