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STORYTELLER	LOCATION	HOW YOU HEARD	YEAR TOOK PLACE	TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN	WHAT IT'S ABOUT
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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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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other family researchers	French Louisiana Mobile, New Orleans, Opelousas	louisiana archives published research	1780s	Louisiana	fighting for freedom
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