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Georgia Counties: Jasper, Putnam, Henry, Fulton, Elbert, Wilkes, Oglethorpe
Unknown Family
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I found a connection via story on this website about the Ginwright Family
Found Connections To Jack Leonard As A Result Of African American Lives
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Halifx county, North Carolina
slave records
family records, photographs
Family tree
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Louisiana
family members research; oral history
1900s
Louisiana
rich heritage
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Raleigh, North Carolina
family story
1890s
Raleigh, North Carolina
great grandparents
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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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David H Branch my great-great grandfather(David
on the Mayflower
My father told me, his father told him, his father's mother told him,
1767
Petersberg, Virginia
My family heritage
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I DON'T KNOW MUCH TO TELL YOU JUST A LITTLE FROM MY MOTHER.
NEWWW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.
ON PBS CHANNEL 30 IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA. I'M AN NATIVE OF N.O.LA.
1962
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.I ALSO HEARD FROM MISSISSIPPI & KANSAS.
I 'M LOOKING FOR MY MOTHER SIDE THE " POLK'S FAMILY"
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My father, uncle and aunt
Accomac County, Virginia
family story
1880s
Doughtery, Virginia
Black Irish
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Not a family Story
SC, GA, FL, LA, OK, TEX, Mexico
The Leader "Willie Warrior"
1800s
My Grandfather
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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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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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Aunt
Guthrie, Oklahoma
A family legend
1890s
She was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Losing the land
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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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Bernice Pelham
South Carolina & Florida
Family Oral History
1800s
Tampa, Florida
The Remarkable Life of Julia Ann Emanuel Pelham Gaither
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Brother
Atlanta/Pembrook GA
Oral interivew with a family member
1850s
Pembrook, GA
Family ancestory
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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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