Celebrate National Research Trip Week!
This third week of January has been all about research trips for me, so I’m officially proclaiming it National Research Trip week.
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BlackProGen LIVE! Episode 75: Getting the Most From Your Research Trip
If you’ve hit a dead end in your research and you’re not quite sure how to get past it, a research trip to your ancestral location is just the thing for you! We’ll cover how county/parish courthouses are organized, what it’s like to visit a state archives or repository, how you can best prepare before getting to either location, what you should expect, and more.
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Unearth the Lead, Unearth the Slaveholder
How a dive into a critical record set – and a chance encounter with 95 pounds of bacon – is what is what lead to me breaking through a 40 year brick wall.
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Waiting on Fate
After over 40 years of searching, the story of the Atlas family while enslaved has been unearthed, uncovering ties to the family of President Andrew Jackson
BlackProGen LIVE! Episode 74: Reverse Genealogy, DNA, and Tracing the Living
So, you’ve done a great job finding your ancestors, but you’re not sure where to start to try to locate their living descendants. In this episode, we’ll cover tips and tricks you can use to safely and respectfully unearth the identities of your living cousins.
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