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GA Live S01 E09: Pushing beyond the 1870 Census to find your enslaved ancestors

02/07/2018
Brian Sheffey
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You’ve made it to the 1870 U.S. Federal Census…and now you have no idea of what…

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Perry Sheffey: snippets of a life played out in the early years of Reconstruction

06/03/2017
Brian Sheffey
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The Virginia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records (1865-1872) has come up trumps again. Okay, so I…

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Tobias Roane: The Dark Side of Emancipation

16/07/2014
Brian Sheffey
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As I mentioned in my previous post George Henry Roane: the new Freedmen’s Bureau databases on FamilySearch…

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George Henry Roane: the new Freedmen’s Bureau databases on FamilySearch are incredible research tools

15/07/2014
Brian Sheffey
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UPDATED: 15 July 2015.  Thanks to a distant cousin, whom I’ll refer to as Mia, more…

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