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WHAT IT'S ABOUT
Connecticut
grandfather
1900s
Maio,Cape Verde (Djarmaio)
Grandpa Frank
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Raleigh, North Carolina
family story
1890s
Raleigh, North Carolina
great grandparents
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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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great grandmother
johns island,sc
oral history told to me by my aunt and varified in the 1910 cenceus
1860s
charleston,sc [Cainhoy]
Master's Driver
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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
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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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A great cousin that is 96 years old
Alexander City Alabama
Heard it through relatives and research
1900s
Her partents
It is about my great great great great grandmother and events discovered.
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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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As a child my mother and grandparents would tell us stories about slavery .
Anson, Cumberland, Montogomery, Moore , and Davidaon Counties in NC
Oral history that was pass down for one generation to the next.
1780s
Anson County NC, Polkton and Wadesboro, NC
Ancestors: The Story of Rachel
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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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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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Cousin
Hushpuckena, MS
Family history
1920s
Koscuisko, MS
Paternal Grandparents
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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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Cousin docummented story in a letter to my grandmother.
Natchez, Adams County, Kingston Precinct, Mississippi
I heard the story growing up and it was documented in a letter.
1880s
These ancestors, are from Kingston, Mississippi, via "Malagasy"
Stories of adversity and challenge
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Cousins, aunts, uncles
Sibley, Mississippi (Adams County)
family history
1900s
Adams County, Mississippi
great grandparents
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Father
Greenwood, MS & West Helena, AR
Father
1800s
Greenwood, Mississippi
Great-Grandfather
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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, aunt, grandfather
Marion County, Florida
oral history and research
1885
Marion County, Florida
homesteading
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