S02 Episode 1: Meet the GU272 Descendants Project Season 2 kicked off strong with our special…
Category: Black History
US history for the black American lens. Told through my ancestors’ stories and experiences.
Book review: Jefferson’s Daughters
I’ve just finished my second reading of Jefferson’s Daughters by Catherine Kerrison. I have to say…
Piecing together enslaved family relations at Monticello
I have spent the past few months doing a deep dive into the early colonial enslavement…
Cuffy Pleasants: A journey from slavery to freedom in 1772
An essential aspect of genealogy is the acceptance, more than understanding, that the ancestors will not…
GA Live S01 E11: Meet the IAAM’s Family Research Center Team
Episode 11: Meet the IAAM’s Family Research Center Team We had another powerful & amazing show…
Ghosts in the DNA: The lost diversity of early colonial Virginia
Nestled along the James River, Varina is a remote and quiet part of Virginia. Its vast…
GA Live S01 E09: Pushing beyond the 1870 Census to find your enslaved ancestors
You’ve made it to the 1870 U.S. Federal Census…and now you have no idea of what…
1845 Will of Col. William Bolling (1777-1845), Goochland County, Virginia
Fellow genealogists will understand the pain of trying to find a critical document in order to…
Me, Virginia Historical Society’s ‘Unknown No Longer’ website…and a question answered
There is a growing wealth of information regarding enslaved people (EPs) in America for genealogists who…
GA Live S01 E05: Endogamy: the good, the bad, and the ugly
Donya and Brian’s family research broke Ancestry! The reason why has everything to do with endogamy.…