Chances, if you’re a person of color, you’ve looked at your DNA results and spotted a…
Category: AfAm Genealogy
researching your African American ancestors in the US has unique challenges. Here are more tips and tricks which I hope help you break through some genealogy walls.
In Her Own Words: The Rosa Parks exhibition at the Library of Congress
The Rosa Parks “In Her Own Words” exhibition at the Library of Congress is a powerful…
The full estate inventories for Governor Arthur Middleton of South Carolina, circa (1737) & grandson Arthur Middleton (1797)
with thanks to the Charleston County Public Library who digitized this document for Genealogy
S03 E08: Should descendants of enslaved Africans pay to access genealogical databases?
400 years of systemic identity erasure poses formidable challenges for the descendants of enslaved Africans in…
The 1766 estate inventory for Col. Thomas Middleton of Charleston, SC & Savannah, GA.
Some of the enslaved people held by Col. Thomas Middleton were the ancestors of the enslaved…
Genealogy Adventures: Our Everyday European, Native, and African-descended research resources (pdf)
This file was a handout for a presentation I gave at the Library of Virginia’s Family…
GA S03 E03: Scotchtown: Enslaved family genealogy research with Jennifer Hurst-Wender & Andi Cumbo-Floyd
In this episode, we spoke with Jennifer Wender-Hurst (Preservation Virginia) and writer/editor Andi Cumbo-Floyd about the…
GA S03 E02: Gullah Geechee Genealogy with Althea Sumpter
In this episode, we spoke with researcher Althea Sumpter, who comes from the Gullah community in…