Limited Time Free Webinar: Nicka Smith presents "Finding Isaac Rogers"

I've been waiting a while for this one!  The list of situations and events listed for this webinar touch on almost every genealogical interest I've heard of from Americans with some Southern ancestry.  Nick Smith presented "Finding Isaac Rogers" on September 13, 2017 (free to non-subscribers through September 20, 2017):

Discover how a book, scant clues, crowd sourced research, and limited online records came together to make ancestral ties to the Trail of Tears, US Civil War, a hanging judge, an outlaw, and of slavery in the Cherokee Nation.

Runs 1 hour 32 minutes



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Fantastic Video Find: "BlackProGen: North and South Carolina Genealogy Research"

Do you have black ancestors from North or South Carolina?  Check out this Google video discussion "BlackProGen: North and South Carolina Genealogy Research" led by Nicka Sewell-Smith of BlackProGen.

A lot of great sources in this one!

Renate mentions the Wilson Library at UNC, the Rubenstein Library at Duke University, and the North Carolina Digital Collections.

Toni mentions the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, as well as Low Country Africana, which is chock full of resources for South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.






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Fantastic Find: Historical African American Newspapers Available Online

[The broad ax. (Salt Lake City, Utah), 31 Aug. 1895. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Library of Congress.]

The James A. Cannavino Library at Marist College, located in the Hudson River Valley of New York State, provides a guide to historical African American newspapers available online through various sources. Here's what Marist's website says about the project:

Content

This guide provides a list of historical African American Newspapers available online as part of digitization projects at libraries and historical societies as well as digitization projects done by Google.  The content is available for free, though it is at the discretion of the institution providing the content. The newspapers contained within guide are those that have ceased to operate or are currently running papers with archives available.  It does not include papers that are currently running and only offer access to the most recent articles. 

Availability of Newspapers 

Many of these newspaper links do not contain the full print run of the paper, but what the digitizing institution has as part of their collection or what has been completed so far.  There may be more content to follow or there may not, but this guide will be updated with additional newspapers, issues, and dates as they become available.  Each newspaper's webpage provides specific information about what content they have available online, though every effort has been made in this guide to make clear what is available online. 

Importance 

These newspapers provide an interesting view of history and aid in research in the field of African American history.  They are a valuable resource that can be found in different institutions throughout the United States and this guide brings them all together in one place to aid students and teachers of history.

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Fantastic Find: NYPL Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience"

One of Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs (10 to 16 January 2016) included Robyn N. Smith's informative post "How Were Slaves Sold?" at her Reclaiming Kin blog (Robyn reviewed the site in 2013 in her post "The Schomburg and Black Migrations").  Robyn used a source I had not seen before, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (a research unit of the New York Public Library), and their incredibly rich 2005 website "In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience."

In particular, she used this map:

From the NYPL Schomburg Center "In Motion" website.

I have a question about my 3rd great grandfather Jesse T S "JTS" Warren (1825-1894), who moved from Macon County, Alabama to Cass County, Texas in 1852.

Notice  the demographic makeup of the nameless enslaved people in the 1850 Federal Slave Schedule from Macon County looked like at least one or more family units (men, women, and children):

1850 U.S. census, Macon County, Alabama, slave schedule, District 21, p. 183 (penned), Jesse Warren, owner; NARA microfilm publication M432; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Jan 2016).

Notice the strangely consistent ages of the men and women in the 1860 Federal Slave Schedule in Cass County, Texas:

1860 U.S. census, Cass County, Texas, slave schedule, Beat No. 4, p. 33 (penned), J.T.S. Warren, owner; NARA microfilm publication M653; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 21 Jan 2016).

Was the census taker in 1860 just winging it, or were the slaves actually those ages, and therefore where had JTS bought them?  Maybe the Schomburg map could hold clues?






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