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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
	Texas (Cherokee county), North Carolina, Virginia,Tennessee	county tax records, cemetary headstones, cousin's geneology records	1800s	Texas	Family Geneology
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1.Older Cousin obtained records from Natl Archive 2.oral tradition from Mom	1.Savannah Ga family migrated from Beaufort SC 2. Windsor N.C.	PBS		1.Savannah Ga family migrated from Beaufort SC 2. Windsor N.C.	1.G.G.Gfather Jake Vandross-Civil War Soldier 2.Tuscarora Indians decendent
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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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a cousin in GA told me that she had always been told WE were FPOC	email x-change	no family members seemed to be the least bit interested in finding ancestor	2005	Hartford, CT and from grandfather who was born in NC	the story goes in our family that we were free people of color
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A great cousin that is 96 years old	Alexander City Alabama	Heard it through relatives and research	1900s	Her partents	It is about my great great great great grandmother and events discovered.
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aunt, cousins, son	Archer and Gainesville, Florida	oral history	1850s	Florida and Connecticut	Connecting the family
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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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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	Noxubee, Mississippi	From an older relative.	1860s	Alto, Louisiana	Bondage
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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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