Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Finding a Place Called Home
Author: Dee WoodtorPublisher: Random House Reference
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
"I teach the kings of their ancestors so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old but the future springs from the past." Mamadou Kouyate "Sundiata", An Epic of Old Mali, a.d. 1217-1257 Two major questions of the ages are: Who am I? and Where am I going? From the moment the first African slaves were dragged onto these shores, these questions have become increasingly harder for African-Americans to answer. To find the answers, you first must discover where you have been, you must go back to your family tree--but you must dig through rocky layers of lost information, of slavery--to find your roots. During the Great Migration in the 1940s, when African-Americans fled the strangling hands of Jim Crow for the relative freedoms of the North, many tossed away or buried the painful memories of their past. As we approach the new millennium, African-Americans are reaching back to uncover where we have been, to help us determine where we are going. Finding a Place Called Homeis a comprehensive guide to finding your African-American roots and tracing your family tree. Written in a clear, conversational, and accessible style, this book shows you, step-by-step, how to find out who your family was and where they came from. Beginning with your immediate family, Dr. Dee Parmer Woodtor gives you all the necessary tools to dig up your past: how to interview family members; how to research your past using census reports, slave schedules, property deeds, and courthouse records; and how to find these records. Using the Internet for genealogical research is also discussed in this timely and necessary book. Finding a Place Called Home helps you find your family tree, and helps place it in the context of the garden of African-American people. As you learn how to find your own history, you learn the history of all Africans in the Americas, including the Caribbean, and how to benefit from a new understanding of your family's history, and your people's. Finding a Place Called Home also discusses the growing family reunion movement and other ways to clebrate newly discovered family history. Tomorrow will always lie ahead of us if we don't forget yesterday. Finding a Place Called Home shows how to retrieve yesterday to free you for all of your tomorrows. Finding a Place Called Home: An African-American Guide to Genealogy and Historical Identitytakes us back, step-by-step, including: Methods of searching and interpreting records, such as marriage, birth, and death certificates, census reports, slave schedules, church records, and Freedmen's Bureau information. Interviewing and taking inventory of family members Using the Internet for genealogical purposes Information on tracing Caribbean ancestry
American Genealogical Record
Author: The American Genealogical Record
Author: American Genealogical Record
Author: A List of Some American Genealogies which Have Been Printed in Book Form
Author: The American Genealogical-biographical Index to American Genealogical, Biographical, and Local History Materials
Author: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.
Writings on American History
Author: American Genealogical Record
Author: Edward S ClarkPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337237363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
American Genealogical Record - Giving the genealogy and history of some American families, tracing their ancestry to ante-revolutionary times. Vol. 2, Part 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1892. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
New York Genealogical and Bibliographical Record Devoted to the Interests of American Genealogy and Biography
Author: New York Genealogical and Biographical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description