In this session, learn about the ins and outs, successes and failures of obtaining membership in two lineage societies – National Society of Daughters of the Revolution (DAR) and Sons and Daughters of the U.S. Middle Passage (SDUSMP) – and how research for the same family line was used to also obtain citizenship in the […]
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I’m excited to share that my family is featured in a new exhibit at the Cherokee Nation National History Museum in Tahlequah, OK! The exhibit is titled “We Are Cherokee: Cherokee Freedmen and the Right to Citizenship” and opens this weekend during the Cherokee National Holiday. There will be an opening reception this weekend that
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“My children have Cherokee blood in their veins…” Isaac Rogers, Cherokee Freedmen, May 20, 1885
Birthright: 8 Generations of Cherokee Freedmen and Our Story of Redemption Read More »
When DNA reveals a relationship between you, your known cousins, and 15 descendants of Old Settler Cherokee Chief John “Nolachucky” Rogers, Jr.
All Roads Lead to Cherokee Chief John Rogers, Jr. Read More »
200+ researchers and family historians focused on african american genealogy descended on music city from October 10-13, 2013 the 34th AAHGS conference.
150 sounds of freedom – 2013 AAGHS national conference Read More »
Isaac “Ike” Rogers, one of the newly introduced characters on the Paramount+ show, Lawmen: Bass Reeves, was a real person and my 2x great grandfather.
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About Isaac Rogers Cherokee Freedmen, U.S.Deputy Marshal, all around bad ass, and my 2x great grandfather. The Timeline ca. 1847 Born enslaved Ike was born enslaved between 1847 and 1853 in the Cherokee Nation (now northeast Oklahoma). He and his mother, Martha May Richardson, were enslaved by Alzira Price May, a Cherokee by Blood and
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Discover how a book, scant clues, crowd sourced research, DNA, and limited online records came together to make ancestral ties to the Trail of Tears, US Civil War, a hanging judge, an outlaw, and of slavery in the Cherokee Nation. Don’t forget the handout attached below. PLEASE NOTE: This webinar is available for patrons of
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Avery Vann was a slaveholder who was married to a Cherokee woman, Margaret McSwain. Upon his death in 1845, his property, which included enslaved people, was divided among his 13 surviving children. In a twist of irony, some of those 13 children would emancipate the enslaved they were bequeathed before the Civil War. This would
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I recently discovered this two volume set, The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees by Rowena McClinton on a trip to Salt Lake City. German missionaries kept a diary during their time in the Cherokee Nation, prior to removal/Trail of Tears, and those diaries have been translated into English and mention the enslaved on almost
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