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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
	Halifx county, North Carolina	slave records		family records, photographs	Family tree
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	Simpson County, Mississippi	Family and Research	1857	Mississippi	Slavery and Research
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	Texas (Cherokee county), North Carolina, Virginia,Tennessee	county tax records, cemetary headstones, cousin's geneology records	1800s	Texas	Family Geneology
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	Yazoo County Mississippi	census records	1880s		genealogy research
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"common" conversation	Charles County, Maryland	father's mother	1882	Charles County, Maryland	Native American Indian
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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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My Grandfather, original story from his Grandfather	From somewhere in Africa to Georgia Colony	From My Grandparents	1790s	My Grandfather was born in 1880, Florence Township, Stewart County, GA	My G-grandfather Prince Shepherd, II.
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96 year old cousin and my now deceased great-grandmother	Taliaferro county Georgia	Oral history and my own research	1890s	Taliaferro and Hancock counties Georgia	Secret Father
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As a child my mother and grandparents would tell us stories about slavery .	Anson, Cumberland, Montogomery, Moore , and Davidaon Counties in NC	Oral history that was pass down for one generation to the next.	1780s	Anson County NC, Polkton and Wadesboro, NC	Ancestors: The Story of Rachel
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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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Children of Wash Rood/Lewis	Stewart County, Georgia	Oral History	1830s	Maradi Tribe	Overcoming
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Cousin	Glenwood, Montgomery County, (now Wheeler County) Georgia	Family Legend	1863	Glenwood, Georgia	Slave Grave
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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 "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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Cousins, aunts, uncles	Sibley, Mississippi (Adams County)	family history	1900s	Adams County, Mississippi	great grandparents
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family	North Carolina		1690s	Alamance County, North Carolina	Family Tree
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Family Historian - Lovick	Lenoir County, NC	Internet	1863	Kinston, NC	Colored Troops
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