Author: Montgomery VanderpoolPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Alphabetical listing of date, book and page number by groom's name with bride's name index.
Colored Marriage Bonds, Logan County, Kentucky to 1900
Author: Montgomery VanderpoolPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Alphabetical listing of date, book and page number by groom's name with bride's name index.
Colored Marriage Bonds, Logan County, Ky. to 1900
Author: The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia
Author: Gerald L. SmithPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813160669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
The story of African Americans in Kentucky is as diverse and vibrant as the state's general history. The work of more than 150 writers, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an essential guide to the black experience in the Commonwealth. The encyclopedia includes biographical sketches of politicians and community leaders as well as pioneers in art, science, and industry. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in an array of notable figures, such as writers William Wells Brown and bell hooks, reformers Bessie Lucas Allen and Shelby Lanier Jr., sports icons Muhammad Ali and Isaac Murphy, civil rights leaders Whitney Young Jr. and Georgia Powers, and entertainers Ernest Hogan, Helen Humes, and the Nappy Roots. Featuring entries on the individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, and institutions that have shaped the state's history since its origins, the volume also includes topical essays on the civil rights movement, Eastern Kentucky coalfields, business, education, and women. For researchers, students, and all who cherish local history, The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia is an indispensable reference that highlights the diversity of the state's culture and history.
Generations Past
Author: Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
This book "is a selected list of books in the collections of the Library of Congress compiled primarily for researchers of Afro-American lineages. Included in this bibliography are guidebooks, bibliographies, genealogies, collective biographies, United States local histories, directories, and other works pertaining specifically to Afro-Americans. Emphasis is on books that contain information about lesser-known individuals of the nineteenth century and earlier, although Afro-American business and city directories published through 1959 are listed"--Introd.
Finding Your African American Ancestors
Author: David T. ThackeryPublisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9780916489908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Although the search for African American ancestry prior to the Civil War is challenging, the difficulties are not always insurmountable. Finding Your African American Ancestors takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, and helps you find them using the federal census, plantation records, and other helpful sources. The book also considers ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable information from The Freedman's Savings and Trust records.
Journal of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society
Author: Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (Washington, D.C.)Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Marriage Bonds Book Z
Author: Author not statedPublisher:
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Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kentucky Ancestors
Author: Marriage Bonds Book DD.
Author: Author not statedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Marriage Bonds Book Y
Author: Author not statedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marriage records
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description