In this episode, we chat recent discoveries that led to finding family members separated by slavery.…
Category: Enslaved Research Strategies
Strategies you can use when researching your enslaved ancestors
S03 E14: University of Virginia’s Memorial to Enslaved Laborers with Dr. Shelley Murphy
In this episode, as we chat with our special guest, African American Research & genealogist Shelley…
S03 E13: Researching Slavery-Disrupted Family Trees with Melvin Collier
In this episode, the author, genealogist and founder of the popular Roots Revealed website (https://rootsrevealed.com/author/melvinjcollier228596363) joins…
Cracking genetic genealogy cold cases with incorrect AncestryDNA ThruLines
Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team! My apologies for the lack of articles over…
S03 E11: Puerto Rican & Caribbean Island Genealogy
Chances, if you’re a person of color, you’ve looked at your DNA results and spotted a…
S03 E07: Research Trees for Specific Genealogy Goals
Online family trees are created to meet different research needs and goals. Different kinds of family…
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…
Adapting the Beyond Kin approach + cluster genealogy to research poorly documented ancestors
The enslavement of a third of my ancestors forced me to develop a skillset that would…