Genealogy

The records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands are an invaluable resource, but how successful can you be when tracing the individuals within them? Using case studies, learn how to extract crucial details and to use them in more commonly used record sets like the census, vital records, and beyond.

The Lost Friends Collection contains more than 2,500 advertisements taken out by individuals who were attempting to locate family members and fictive kin who were separated due to enslavement. Through case studies, learn how to use the notices that were printed in the Southwestern Christian Advocate from 1879-1900 and were sent out to more than

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery “except as a punishment for crime,” and in doing so, the stage was set for the United States to go from having one of the largest populations of enslaved people in the world to the nation with the largest population of people incarcerated in the world. In this session, learn

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