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great grandmother
johns island,sc
oral history told to me by my aunt and varified in the 1910 cenceus
1860s
charleston,sc [Cainhoy]
Master's Driver
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My father, uncle and aunt
Accomac County, Virginia
family story
1880s
Doughtery, Virginia
Black Irish
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aunt
Abbeville County, Abbeville, South Carolina
Oral history, estate papers, court documents, news articles.
1916
Abbeville, South Carolina
Lynchings and Land Loss
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Aunt
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Oral History Interview
1912
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Cape Verdean Ancestry
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Aunt
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A family legend
1890s
She was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Losing the land
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Aunt and Uncle
Bradley, Abbeville and Greenwood, South Carolina
Oral Discussion
1870s
Greenwood, South Carolina
Four Generations
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aunt eula mae lowery tucker
Greenville, Alabama
person research
1807
Andalusia Alabama
Butler slaves
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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 lena
Middle East
great Aunt
1800s
great uncle ahab
The Accident
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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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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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Cousins, aunts, uncles
Sibley, Mississippi (Adams County)
family history
1900s
Adams County, Mississippi
great grandparents
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father, aunt, grandfather
Marion County, Florida
oral history and research
1885
Marion County, Florida
homesteading
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from an aunt, then my own research, and elder cousins
virginia, ohio
doing research
1805
ohio
my family, it was a secret that our ancestors were black
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from my Aunt
Germany
1918
Portland, Oregon
Change
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Grand mothers, aunts, uncles
In South Carolina/ Chacago
From Grand mother, aunts, uncles and thier cousins
Due West, South Carolina
Leila Dotson and Ollie Daniel McAdams Grand parents
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Grandma heard the story from an Aunt that is long dead.
In Andalusia, Al. But I can't find grandpa Ralph or his mom in census.
Oral history from my Grandma on my fathers side.
1900s
We know from 1920 census that it is Andalusia, Al.
Mystery, great grandpa Ralph committed a crime and fled the south in 1920.
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