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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
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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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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Freedman Bank Records	Georgia	Genealogy research	1871	Milledgeville Georgia	Discovery of family history
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Many family members	Norfolk / Portsmouth, Virginia	Oral History, minute books, court records, deeds and wills	1800s	Norfolk, Virginia	Free People of Color, Overcoming Adversity
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Mother's cousin	New Orleans, Louisiana	oral history	1770s	New Orleans, Africa, France, Germany	Survival, overcoming adversity, Gaining freedom, Love for family
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Mother, aunts and uncles.	Bostwick, Georgia	Researcher and family members	1800s	New Jersey and Pennsylvania	Slavery to Freedom
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Mother, Estelle Alma Singleton Taylor/ Aunt Ruby Ursula Singleton Thompson	Sumter, So Carolina	Handed down through the years on maternal "Singleton" Family	1850s	Sumter, So Carolina -- came North in 1923 settling in NY then CT	Ancestor "Singleton" found gold in Sumter, So. Carolina and bought freedom
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my grand aunt	sumter sc (1865)	told by the granddaughter that he was the family first pastor	1865	sumter sc	greatgrandfather usct and a free man
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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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other family researchers	French Louisiana Mobile, New Orleans, Opelousas	louisiana archives published research	1780s	Louisiana	fighting for freedom
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