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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
aunt, cousins, son	Archer and Gainesville, Florida	oral history	1850s	Florida and Connecticut	Connecting the family
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Brother	Atlanta/Pembrook GA	Oral interivew with a family member	1850s	Pembrook, GA	Family ancestory
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Cousin	Spartanburg, South Carolina	Discussing wit older relatives.	1850s	Spartanburg, South Carolina	Tracing my family tree back to 1850.
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father	Whitehaven, MD	oral and public records	1850s	Whitehaven, MD	My great-father got his 40 acres and a mule
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Father and cousin	Red Bud, Illinois		1850s	Red Bud, Illinois	Orphan ancestor
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Grandmother	Groverhill , Ohio	Oral and published Ohio History	1850s	Mandale. Ohio	Doctor D C Goings Wappoo Indian Faith Healer
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I heard it from a distant, elderly cousin.	Georgia	I did an oral history interview with an elderly family member.	1850s	Georgia	It is about a relative who chose not to pass for white though he could have
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Mother	Texas	Oral History	1850s	Texas	Celebrity Sighting
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Mother, Estelle Alma Singleton Taylor/ Aunt Ruby Ursula Singleton Thompson	Sumter, So Carolina	Handed down through the years on maternal "Singleton" Family	1850s	Sumter, So Carolina -- came North in 1923 settling in NY then CT	Ancestor "Singleton" found gold in Sumter, So. Carolina and bought freedom
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My aunt told me.	In Calloway or Carroll County, Missouri.	It's a family story.	1850s	Texas (her father was born in Missouri).	A slave-holder's daughter.
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My grandmother	Savannah, Georgia	My grandmother	1850s	Savannah, Georgia	Spanish American War Veteran
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My grandmother and her siblings often talk about this	Hallsville, Harrison County , TX	I was the child who was interested in the family history from my grandma	1850s	Alabama	Uncle Mack Nolan - black city councilman
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My Mother	Shellmound, Schlater, Greenwood, Mississippi	Passed down	1850s	Shellmound, Mississippi	Remembering My Mother
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my mother's father	Ridgley, Maryland	oral tradition	1850s	Caroline County of the Eastern Shore of Maryland	great-great grandfather linked to a white family
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