Happy New Year from the Genealogy Adventures team! My apologies for the lack of articles over…
Category: Enslaved Research Strategies
Strategies you can use when researching your enslaved ancestors
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…
GA S03 E01: Native American Genealogy with Chief Lonzado Langley (Euchee, SC)
In this episode, we spoke with Chief Lonzado Langley of the Euchee in South Carolina about…
Finding Maj. Pierce Butler’s enslaved people who left Georgia with the British in 1815
When the British finally arrived in Georgia in 1815, during the War of 1812, they did…
Case study: Creating a research strategy to find my lost connection to Maj. Pierce Butler’s enslaved people
There are times when the work of other genealogy researchers inspires you to undertake some deep…