Recently, I decided to revisit my Prather family’s historic cemetery in Montgomery County, Maryland. The church was then called Brooke Grove Methodist Church, and is on Maryland’s Inventory of Historic Properties. I discussed in a previous post how useful these types of databases can be. Brooke Grove was built after the Civil War by a […]
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Maps Lead the Way To Better Understandin...
I’ve always known that maps are an underused but vital part of genealogy research. I think the difficulty in finding them contributes to this for most people. Recently, maps helped me to better understand connections between my enslaved ancestors. I thought I’d share it with you in the hopes that it will inspire you to […]
Published Slave Narratives
Lately I have been reading a lot of published slave narratives. These are not to be confused with the WPA slave interviews from the 1930s. I am referring to slave narratives that were written and published mostly in the 19th century. The authors were former slaves, many of whom who had fled slavery. These books […]