by Toni | Aug 14, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research, Research Problem Solving
In African American: Finding Out a Little More about the Enslaver, we found James K. Vance in 1850 and 1860 on the census. By the time 1870 came around Beverly Vance (1832-1899) was no longer enslaved and was named in the census. He is at home with his wife and...
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by Toni | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog, Family History Research
Year: 1850; Census Place: Saluda Regiment, Abbeville, South Carolina; Roll: M432_848; Page: 155A; Image: 316 Why would you want to trace the person back in time who enslaved your family? Because if you know he was the...
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by Toni | Jul 17, 2019 | Beyond the Basics, Blog, Family History Research
Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National...
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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 | May 7, 2018 | Blog, Family History Research
Chronicling America has historical newspapers. It is an internet-based, searchable database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages. In the basic search you can choose to search the entire archive or choose a...
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