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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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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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grandmother, great aunts and great uncles
Holly Springs, MS; Robinsonville, MS; and Memphis, TN
oral history
1860s
Robinsonville, Mississippi
Ida B. Wells lineage- TEST or PUT TO REST
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Interviewed Aunts, Uncles, Grandfather
Notoway County, Blackstone, Virginia
Interviewed Aunts, Uncles, Grandfather, Census records, Wills, Birth& Death
1800s
Nottoway County, Blackstone, Virginia
Family tree - tracing roots
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Many aunts and uncles and parents
Texas Polk County
Parents Aunts and Uncles have shared stories over the years
1866
My parents were born in Kansas
My name Boganey is extremely unique and virtually all are related
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Mom, aunts, bio-dad
USA...at home or on phone
listening to family stories mostly
2000s
Mom and aunts: northern europe. Western U.S Dad: nigeria, igbo
I heard It
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mom,aunts
charleston,sc
oral history
1999
new york
easy find
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Mother, aunts and uncles.
Bostwick, Georgia
Researcher and family members
1800s
New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Slavery to Freedom
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Mother, aunts, grandmother & great-grandfather
Navasota, TX & Grimes, TX
Traditional story passed down over generations
1870s
Great-grandfather from Beaumont, TX; rest of family born in CA
Texas Legislator during Reconstruction
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My aunts
Research
A black slave who became a surrogate mother
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My father, uncles, aunts, and grandmother
Birmingham, Alabama area
My father, uncles, aunt, and grandmother and see something on the internet.
1900s
Las Vegas and Ohio
My father's Alabama roots?
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My grandmother,my mother, my aunts, & also published in a newspaper.
In Augustus, Georgia and later retold in The LaFayette Sun Times 1951
oral history and documented material
1859
Augustus Georgia, Appling County and LaFayette, Alabama, Chambers County
Its a story about honoring who you are, and whose you are.
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My mother
West Virginia
great aunts and uncles
1890s
West Virginia
Family History
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My mother and aunts
Anson county, Morven, North Carolina
Oral history
1856
North Carolina
Oral family history confirmed
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my mother aunts and uncles are the tellers of the story
Leland and Greenville Mississippi
I heard the story after viewing a photo of a woman in slave garments
1930s
my family is originally from mississippi and louisisana and arkansas
This story surrounds my great great grandmother born in 1855
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My mother, aunts, uncles, and grandmother
Mississippi
passed down
1890s
Greenville and Greenwood Mississippi
mothers fathers family
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my mother, my aunts and uncles
Stedman, Cumberland County, North Carolina
oral tradition
1925
Cumberland County, Stedman, North Carolina
Over coming adversity
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