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Georgia Counties: Jasper, Putnam, Henry, Fulton, Elbert, Wilkes, Oglethorpe
Unknown Family
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Cave Spring, Georgia
Oral and Written History
1775
Columbus, Ohio
Chubbtown, Georgia
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Detroit, Michigan.
1960s
Detroit, Michigan and Cumberland Island, Georgia.
Design and Inventions
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Savannah, Georgia
My own research
1859
Toogoodoo plantation, SC; Butler's Island, GA; &, Baird plantation, LA
"The Weeping Time"
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Tallahassee, Florida
1990s
Georgia.
overcoming adversity
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Washington, D.C.
Internet
1990s
Hinesville (Holmestown), Georgia
United States Colored Troops
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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 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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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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Children of Wash Rood/Lewis
Stewart County, Georgia
Oral History
1830s
Maradi Tribe
Overcoming
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Cousin
Glenwood, Montgomery County, (now Wheeler County) Georgia
Family Legend
1863
Glenwood, Georgia
Slave Grave
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Freedman Bank Records
Georgia
Genealogy research
1871
Milledgeville Georgia
Discovery of family history
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Grandfather
Georgia
Family
1839
Georgia
Ancestors
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grandfather and elders
United States
oral history
1890s
Savannah, Georgia; Hymanville, South Carolina; Henderson, North Carolina;
family tree
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Grandmother
Georgia
Grandmother
1870
Georgia
uncovering my maternal grandmother's past
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grandmother
Kansas City, Kansas
family story
1951
Macon, Georgia
we had Cherokee and Blackfoot, also Scotch-Irish
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Grandmothers cousin
Africa Igbo Island
Oral History
1820s
carolinas/georgia/mississippi?
Mat/Grandma family story simlar to movie Daughters of the dust
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great great grandmother
Bronson, Sabine County, Texas
oral history
Georgia, Alabama, Sabine County, Texas
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I heard it from a distant, elderly cousin.
Georgia
I did an oral history interview with an elderly family member.
1850s
Georgia
It is about a relative who chose not to pass for white though he could have
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mother and father
Georgia
many family members
1890s
Arkansas
family unity
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