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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
	Zacatecas, Jalisco and Michoacan Mexico	genealogy	1650s	California	Blacks in Mexico
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Eddye Taylor Fennell and Johnnye Taylor Thompson,Henry Taylor's daughters	Abbeville, South Carolina	This is documented in the archives of Abbeville, SC	1870s	Abbeville County, South Carolina	The Founding of Taylortown , South Carolina, a freed Black Community
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My father, uncle and aunt	Accomac County, Virginia	family story	1880s	Doughtery, Virginia	Black Irish
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Father and cousin	Breaks, Virginia	Family Members	1800s	Kentucky	Black flight
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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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grandmother	i was told in northern virginia	From my granmother	1880s	northern virginia	my great great grandmother savvanah cross was cherokee and black
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grandmother	Kansas City, Kansas	family story	1951	Macon, Georgia	we had Cherokee and Blackfoot, also Scotch-Irish
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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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Legal records & a cousin who was one of 1st black Texas legislators (1972)	Tennessee, Texas (Cherokee County)		1776	Texas	Documented Family History
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My aunts		Research			A black slave who became a surrogate mother
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My father	New York City	Oral history	1819	Long Island, NY	Black Indians
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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 Grandmother Mrs. Carrie Bass (Deceased/1995)	Simpson County Mississippi (1880 Census Report)	Found in 1880 Census Records for Simpson County Mississippi	1860s	Crystal Springs Mississippi	White GG Grandfather was married to my Black GG Grandmother in 1880 in MS
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My mother wrote the letter to a cousin. A great-uncle had the bible.	The family were freed blacks in Baltimore and slaves in QueenAnne's County.	My maternal family history was written in a letter and in a family bible.	1813	These relatives lived in Baltimore Maryland.	It is a story about understanding my identity, my character and behaviors.
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