Newspapers provide details about communities that cannot be found anywhere else. Once a time consuming source to search, great strides have been made by providers, including the Library of Congress, in their digitization. Chicago Defender: A Brief History The Chicago Defender was founded in 1905 by Robert Abbott and catered to an African-American population. It […]
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Met His Fate by the Rope Route: Lynching
This country has a long history of racism, white supremacy, Jim Crow and discrimination. Violence is at the core of those systems. Without violence, they couldn’t exist. Far from being passive or willing subjects, African and Native peoples and their descendants fought back in myriad ways. That’s why slave rebellions were often dealt with by […]
Biblically Speaking
(Update, 2019: The standards in genealogy have been updated and have been modified from what was written below. Please consult the newest standards, the book is referenced below.) I have had some wonderful discoveries in bibles over the past year. I want to share them with you along with some thoughts on evaluation. Definitions and […]
Court Records Rock
I absolutely, positively LOVE court records! OK, I guess I should caveat that: I don’t particularly like court records about myself, but historical court records in search of those ever-elusive ancestors are way, way cool. They are second on my “genealogical excitement” scale only to Civil War pension records. I have an entire brief I […]