US Black Heritage Project Tennessee Team

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Surnames/tags: Tennessee black_heritage

The Tennessee Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of Tennessee.

Interim Team Leader: Emma MacBeath

Team Leader in Training: Taneya Koonce

Contents 1 Goals 2 Projects 2.1 Current Projects 3 One Place Studies 4 Plantations 5 Resources 6 Stickers 7 WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project 8 Sources

Goals

This team is part of the US Black Heritage Project. Our goals are the following with specific emphasis on Tennessee:

• To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting African-American Genealogies.
• To create the largest online public database of connected African-American families.
• To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting African-American families to the Global Family Tree.
• To process all types of documents from Tennessee regarding free and enslaved ancestors with the goal of creating their profiles and connecting them to their descendants.
• To provide and maintain a logical and organized structure to help individuals identify their ancestors and celebrate their history.
• To improve all profiles of ancestors with Black heritage in Tennessee, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.

Projects

• Locating and documenting all African-American cemeteries in Tennessee, including developing profiles on WikiTree for persons found, as well as free space pages for the cemeteries.
  • See Tennessee, African-American Cemeteries for existing categories. The categories are broken down by county, then by cemetery, profiles and free space cemetery pages respectively, designated with the number in each area currently on WikiTree.
  • Some African American Cemeteries at Find A Grave
• Locating and documenting all plantations in Tennessee that utilized slave labor with at least 40 slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for slave owners and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.
• Locating and developing profiles for Freedmen in Tennessee.
• Begin One Place Studies for African-American towns and communities in Tennessee.

Current Projects

• Create WT profiles for first enrollees of Fisk Free Colored School (precursor to Fisk University): James Dallas Burrus, John Houston Burrus, Virginia E. Walker, and America W. Robinson
• Create WT profiles for deceased Fisk University presidents: Charles Spurgeon Johnson, Rutherford Hamlet "Lubby" Adkins, James Raymond Lawson, Walter J. Leonard, Stephen Junious Wright
• Davidson County 1880 Census Project. It is located on two spreadsheets due to the size: Spreadsheet #3 and Spreadsheet #4

One Place Studies

Plantations

• See Tennessee Plantations for an index of existing plantation pages in Tennessee

Resources

See African-American Resources for Tennessee.

Stickers

Along with the {{African-American Sticker}} you may also wish to add an Tennessee sticker to profiles.

Place {{Tennessee Sticker|born in Tennessee}} below the African American sticker if they were born in Tennessee. Place {{Tennessee Sticker}} below the African American sticker if they lived in Tennessee for a large part of their life, but were not born there.

WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project

• US Black Heritage Project
• US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal
• US Black Heritage Index of Plantations

Sources