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A place called Tensas Parish

Andre Walker

Through out my family research, I discovered the Tensas Parish is signifacant. I have traced my 4th great grandfather in the Tensas Parish. He goes by the name Mike Emerson, born in 1809 in Kentucky. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

my discovery of my family tree

Bruce Jenkins

I grew up in the DHS system of Pennsylvania after my mother's death in 1977. My fateher had passed when I was four years old in 1969. Continue reading ...

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Joe Coffey

Robbin

I was fortunate to have had several conversations with my great great grandmother. Though I was very young I remember one particular "story" she told me often and told me to never forget. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

Grandfather

Kelsey Brodowich

My grandfathers family came over from Wales, and settled in North America. When my grandfather was about three years old his mother left their family and took his baby sister. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

Panamanian hidden

April Hedge

Hello my name is April Hedge. My mothers birth last name is Hewitt. Continue reading ...

November 6, 2012 | 1 Comment

Sarah Lathrop, Maggie and me

Jewel Moore

On Maggie Gyllenhaal's fathers side the story of the Lathrop family that came to America for religious freedom,helped me to recognize Sarah Lathrop in my heritage going back from Plymouth Massachusettes to England. Continue reading ...

October 15, 2012 | Leave a comment

discoverying My History

Eddie R. Henderson

My story is this; my great great grandfather's last name was McIntosh. There are a lot information about the McIntoshes in American History. Continue reading ...

September 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

Bloody Lowndes

Annette Wright

My great uncle Jim Press Meriwether now spelled today merriweather. Who was a local sharecropper in ft deposit alabama. Continue reading ...

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Ethel Waters: Sweet Mama Stringbean

Orlandus Waters

Depending on your age and generation, Ethel Waters is hearaled as a Hollywood icon but also forgotten for all of her accomplishments. Continue reading ...

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The Missing Little French Boy

Alice Le Merle. Jones

On an evening in 1810, my great, great, great grandfater, Elisha Lyman, was strolling along the docks in New London, CT when he saw a ship in the harbor put a small boat over the side, and two figures got into it and began to row ashore. Continue reading ...

September 5, 2012 | 1 Comment

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The basic drive to discover who we are and where we come from is at the core of the new 10-part PBS series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the 12th series from Professor Gates, the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. Filmed on location across the United States, the series premieres nationally Sundays, March 25 – May 20 at 8 pm ET on PBS (check local listings).

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