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Aunt Helen
Alabama, and somewhere "up North"
On a long country walk with my visiting Aunt
1920s
Origins: Northwest Alamama
Illicit Love Lost
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aunt, cousins, son
Archer and Gainesville, Florida
oral history
1850s
Florida and Connecticut
Connecting the family
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Aunt?
Montgomery Alabama
Through different relatives
1890s
Alabama (Montgomery)
Davis Roots
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AUNTS , UNCLES, PARENTS, COUSINS AND BOOKS AND DOCUMENTS , TRUSTS, WILLS
GRENADA JAMAICA
OWN RESEARCH
1955
GRENADA, TRINIDAD, TOBAGO, ST LUCIA, JAMAICA
ITS IS A STORY ABOUT A FAMILY DIVIDED FOR DECADES DUE TO CLASS NOT COLOR
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Aunts and cousins
Cleveland,Ohio
grandmother died when I was 2
1915
Macon Ga
Trying to find my grand mothers family tree
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Bernice Pelham
South Carolina & Florida
Family Oral History
1800s
Tampa, Florida
The Remarkable Life of Julia Ann Emanuel Pelham Gaither
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Brother
Atlanta/Pembrook GA
Oral interivew with a family member
1850s
Pembrook, GA
Family ancestory
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Cassie Currie Kirby, my great-grandmother and my mother and aunts.
Brownsville, TN and North Carolina
My Great-Grandmother Cassie Currie Kirby told us stories of the family
1800s
Brownsville, TN and North Carolina
My Great-Grandmother has 20 sibling, but only knew 13.
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Census research- John Pyle
Kaufman Co, TX
Research - census, family research
1870s
South Carolina, then GA, MS and Texas
A white man caring for a half-brother born a slave.
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cousin
Delaware
told by family member
1890s
somewhere in Delaware
Overcoming Adversity
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Cousin
Fort Monroe, Virginia
A Family History Book
1860s
Chesapeake, Virginia
Colored Civil War Veteran
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Cousin
Glenwood, Montgomery County, (now Wheeler County) Georgia
Family Legend
1863
Glenwood, Georgia
Slave Grave
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Cousin
Hushpuckena, MS
Family history
1920s
Koscuisko, MS
Paternal Grandparents
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Cousin
North or South Carolina
Oral History
1800s
Bellville, Florida
Rayam Last Name
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Cousin
On Stewart plantation Richmond, Virginia
My father's first cousin told me this story.
Barbour county in Alabama
My father's grandmother was allegedly of Spanish decent.
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Cousin
Philippi, West Virginia
Oral History
1830s
West Virginia
Oral History Native American
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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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Cousin "Nig"
John Harris Place & Lattimore Place, Baldwin County, GA
Family Oral Historians
1890s
Milledgeville, GA
2 Sisters married 2 Brothers
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cousin Alex Witt
Germany to Alabama
oral history
1914
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The Witt's of livingston county alabama
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Cousin docummented story in a letter to my grandmother.
Natchez, Adams County, Kingston Precinct, Mississippi
I heard the story growing up and it was documented in a letter.
1880s
These ancestors, are from Kingston, Mississippi, via "Malagasy"
Stories of adversity and challenge
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