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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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The indenture of former slaves in the early Reconstruction Era

27/12/2013
Brian Sheffey
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I have been blessed to have found a wealth of American and European family history information…