Download or read book Black Indian Genealogy Research written by Angela Y. Walton-Raji and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1907, the Indian Territory became the State of Oklahoma. To qualify for the payments and land allotments set aside for the Five Civilized Tribes, the former slaves of these nations had to apply for official enrollment, thus producing testimonies of imm
Download or read book African American Genealogical Research written by Paul R. Begley and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Genealogy written by Charles L. Blockson and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the obstacles and advantages of searching for Black family history, including information about places to research, and documents and techniques used to uncover genealogical history, even though considered lost or incomplete.
Download or read book A Genealogist s Guide to Discovering Your African American Ancestors written by Franklin Carter Smith and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing one's African-American ancestry can be uniquely challenging. This guide helps overcome the obstacles and pitfalls of specialized research by offering a proven, three-part approach.
Download or read book Finding a Place Called Home written by Dee Woodtor and published by Random House Reference. This book was released on 1999 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I teach the kings of their ancestors so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old but the future springs from the past." Mamadou Kouyate "Sundiata", An Epic of Old Mali, a.d. 1217-1257 Two major questions of the ages are: Who am I? and Where am I going? From the moment the first African slaves were dragged onto these shores, these questions have become increasingly harder for African-Americans to answer. To find the answers, you first must discover where you have been, you must go back to your family tree--but you must dig through rocky layers of lost information, of slavery--to find your roots. During the Great Migration in the 1940s, when African-Americans fled the strangling hands of Jim Crow for the relative freedoms of the North, many tossed away or buried the painful memories of their past. As we approach the new millennium, African-Americans are reaching back to uncover where we have been, to help us determine where we are going. Finding a Place Called Homeis a comprehensive guide to finding your African-American roots and tracing your family tree. Written in a clear, conversational, and accessible style, this book shows you, step-by-step, how to find out who your family was and where they came from. Beginning with your immediate family, Dr. Dee Parmer Woodtor gives you all the necessary tools to dig up your past: how to interview family members; how to research your past using census reports, slave schedules, property deeds, and courthouse records; and how to find these records. Using the Internet for genealogical research is also discussed in this timely and necessary book. Finding a Place Called Home helps you find your family tree, and helps place it in the context of the garden of African-American people. As you learn how to find your own history, you learn the history of all Africans in the Americas, including the Caribbean, and how to benefit from a new understanding of your family's history, and your people's. Finding a Place Called Home also discusses the growing family reunion movement and other ways to clebrate newly discovered family history. Tomorrow will always lie ahead of us if we don't forget yesterday. Finding a Place Called Home shows how to retrieve yesterday to free you for all of your tomorrows. Finding a Place Called Home: An African-American Guide to Genealogy and Historical Identitytakes us back, step-by-step, including: Methods of searching and interpreting records, such as marriage, birth, and death certificates, census reports, slave schedules, church records, and Freedmen's Bureau information. Interviewing and taking inventory of family members Using the Internet for genealogical purposes Information on tracing Caribbean ancestry
Download or read book Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama written by Frazine Taylor and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, in workshops and personal consultations, thousands of persons have have received the expertise and knowledge of author Frazine Taylor about Alabama genealogical research. In addition, she has taught the art to hundreds of students. As Dr. James Rose notes, all genealogists looking for the family tree in Alabama sooner or later come across Frazine. And now they have her book, Researching African American Genealogy in Alabama: A Resource Guide. In the book, she provides the information and guidance to help locate the resources available for researching African American records in archives, libraries, and county courthouses throughout the state. The idea for this guidebook rose out of her lecturing throughout the country and having noticed that reference guides on African American family history resources seemed to exist for every state except Alabama. This was regrettable not merely for researchers on African American history in Alabama. In fact, Alabama’s records play an especially important role in U.S. family history research because of the migration patterns of Alabama’s freedmen, first to urban areas of Alabama and then to northern cities, a trend that continued throughout the first part of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Black Genesis written by James M. Rose and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2003 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed with both the novice and the professional researcher in mind, this text provides reference resources and introduces a methodology specific to investigating African-American genealogy. In the second edition, information has been reorganized by state. Within each state are listings for resources such as state archives, census records, military records, newspapers, and manuscript collections.
Download or read book The African American Researcher s Guide to Online Genealogical Sources written by Fallon N. Green and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portable and easy-to-read, the first volume of the African American Researcher's Guide to Online Genealogical Sources, can go with you anywhere. It can fit in your purse, in your desk or in your research bag. Or...just add it to your reference library. Well-crafted and concise, this volume is a must-read for any beginning African American Genealogist. A dynamic resource, it is indisputably the best book for African Americans looking to pursue online genealogical research. The African American Researcher's Guide to Online Genealogical Sources outlines essential steps and pinpoints available internet resources. Inside there are links to free and subscription databases, research projects, university studies, transcriptions, compendium genealogies, scanned images, online digital archives, state and local archives, instructional materials, podcasts, wikis, search portals, online directories, historical societies, message boards, mailing lists and hobby groups. If you want to search for your family’s genealogy, but don’t know where to start this is the book for you.
Download or read book Help Me to Find My People written by Heather Andrea Williams and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspapers, searching for missing family members. Inspired by the power of these ads, Heather Andrea Williams uses slave narratives, letters, interviews, public records, and diaries to guide readers back to devastating moments of family separation during slavery when people were sold away from parents, siblings, spouses, and children. Williams explores the heartbreaking stories of separation and the long, usually unsuccessful journeys toward reunification. Examining the interior lives of the enslaved and freedpeople as they tried to come to terms with great loss, Williams grounds their grief, fear, anger, longing, frustration, and hope in the history of American slavery and the domestic slave trade. Williams follows those who were separated, chronicles their searches, and documents the rare experience of reunion. She also explores the sympathy, indifference, hostility, or empathy expressed by whites about sundered black families. Williams shows how searches for family members in the post-Civil War era continue to reverberate in African American culture in the ongoing search for family history and connection across generations.
Download or read book African American Families written by Faye Z. Belgrave and published by Cognella Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Roots written by Tony Burroughs and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 2001-02-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trace, document, record, and write your family's history with this easy-to-read, step-by-step authoritative guide. Finally, here is the fun, easy-to-use guide that African Americans have been waiting for since Alex Haley published Roots more than twenty-five years ago. Written by the leading African American professional genealogist in the United States who teaches and lectures widely, Black Roots highlights some of the special problems, solutions, and sources unique to African Americans. Based on solid genealogical principles and designed for those who have little or no experience researching their family's past, but valuable to any genealogist, this book explains everything you need to get started, including: where to search close to home, where to write for records, how to make the best use of libraries and the Internet, and how to organize research, analyze historical documents, and write the family history. This guide also includes: -real case histories that illustrate the unique challenges posed to African Americans and how they were solved -more than 100 illustrations and photographs of actual documents and records you're likely to encounter when tracing your family tree -samples of all the worksheets and forms you'll need to keep your research in order -a list of the traps even experienced researchers often fall into that hamper their research And more.
Download or read book Guidelines for Ancestry Research with an Emphasis on African American Genealogy written by M. T. W. Cruise and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Researching African American Ancestors in Laurens County South Carolina and Selected Finding Aids written by LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written to aid families with ancestors from Laurens County, South Carolina, to jumpstart their genealogical research. Although the focus is on sources of particular relevance to African Americans, the book also contains information relevant to slave-holding families. Also, the background information at the beginning of each section will be of general interest to those families from South Carolina who are researching their African ancestors. In addition to practical advice born from the authors genealogical research and formal studies, the book includes information and compilations regarding the following topics: Free Persons of Color in Antebellum Laurens Slaves in Will Transcripts (17821860) Legislative Papers (17821866) Comptroller General Tax Return Books (18661868) 1869 SC State Population Census 1860 US Census Slave Schedule and Matching African American Surnames in the 1870 US Census Excerpts of Freedmen Bureau Records Grave Markers at Five African American Churches
Download or read book Proud Shoes written by Pauli Murray and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2024-06-25 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1956, Proud Shoes is the remarkable true story of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the South from the pre-Civil War era through the Reconstruction. Written by Pauli Murray the legendary civil rights activist and one of the founders of NOW, Proud Shoes chronicles the lives of Murray's maternal grandparents. From the birth of her grandmother, Cornelia Smith, daughter of a slave whose beauty incited the master's sons to near murder to the story of her grandfather Robert Fitzgerald, whose free black father married a white woman in 1840, Proud Shoes offers a revealing glimpse of our nation's history.
Download or read book Free African Americans of North Carolina Virginia and South Carolina from the Colonial Period to about 1820 written by Paul Heinegg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Student s Guide to African American Genealogy written by Anne E. Johnson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1996 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes background information on African American history and culture and offers suggestions for tracing the genealogy of persons of African descent back to the ancestors' arrival in America. An annotated list of resources is presented for each chapter.
Download or read book Unveiling Roots Tracing African American Ancestry and Slave Records written by Penelope Green and published by Global Publishing Solutions, LLC. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover Your African American Ancestry! "Tracing Roots: Uncovering African American Ancestry through Slave Records" by Penelope Green is your indispensable guide to unveiling the rich tapestry of your heritage. This book empowers you to embark on a transformative journey through history, resilience, and identity. With Green's guidance, explore the unique challenges and rewards of tracing African American ancestry, from gathering cherished family stories to navigating the intricacies of historical slave records. Delve into the profound significance of these records, unlocking the stories of strength, courage, and survival that are etched within their pages. Discover the narratives concealed in plantation journals, letters, and diaries, providing profound insights into the lives and experiences of enslaved individuals. Navigate the complexities of genealogical research, including the power of census data and lineage, and honor the enduring spirit of families separated by the bonds of slavery. "Tracing Roots" extends beyond research, equipping you with the tools to preserve your findings and share your discoveries. Document your ancestral journey, craft a compelling family history, and contribute to the broader narrative of African American genealogy. As you close the final chapter, Penelope Green emphasizes the significance of embracing your heritage and encourages you to continue your journey, celebrating the stories of resilience and belonging that define your family's narrative. Uncover the hidden stories of your African American ancestry and embark on a transformative journey today with "Tracing Roots."
