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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
	Connecticut	grandfather	1900s	Maio,Cape Verde (Djarmaio)	Grandpa Frank
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"common" conversation	Charles County, Maryland	father's mother	1882	Charles County, Maryland	Native American Indian
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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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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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Not a family Story	SC, GA, FL, LA, OK, TEX, Mexico	The Leader "Willie Warrior"	1800s	My Grandfather	PBS
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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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Alec Powell my paternal great grandfather	Shipment Virginia - Lovingston, VA	From my paternal grandmother	1600s	Shipment Virginia	Using Assimilation as a Means to Freedom
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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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father	alabama	family legend	1830s	mississsippi	workman's value
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Father	Greenwood, MS & West Helena, AR	Father	1800s	Greenwood, Mississippi	Great-Grandfather
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Father	Minner Quarters	Conversations with my father	1945	New Madrid, Missouri	Ritual and Habitat
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Father	Nigeria Guyana Belize		1890s	Belize, formerly British Honduras	inherited talent
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father	South Carolina and England/France	Chris Rock was on Oprah talking about my great great grandfather/my father	1944	Smoaks, South Carolina	My family name being on this show and inspiration
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father	Whitehaven, MD	oral and public records	1850s	Whitehaven, MD	My great-father got his 40 acres and a mule
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Father and cousin	Breaks, Virginia	Family Members	1800s	Kentucky	Black flight
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Father and cousin	Red Bud, Illinois		1850s	Red Bud, Illinois	Orphan ancestor
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Father and Mother	Washington, DC; Greesboro, North Carolina; Lincolnton, North Carolina	Family discussions	1870s	Greesboro, North Carolina; Lincolnton, North Carolina	Abolitionist
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