US Black Heritage Project Georgia Team

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Surnames/tags: black_heritage Georgia Slavery

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

Team Leader: Notify Emma McBeath if interested in this position

Team members:

• Stacey Martin
• Vickie (Kendrick) Miranda
• Miyako Jones
• Dot Tribble
• Carolyn Martin

Contents 1 Goals 2 Projects 3 October Through December 2023 Project 4 Other Georgia Projects Pending 5 Other One Place Studies 6 Resources 7 Stickers 8 WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project 9 Sources

Goals

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

• 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 Georgia 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 Georgia, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.

Projects

• Locating and documenting all African-American cemeteries in Georgia, including developing profiles on WikiTree for persons found, as well as free space pages for the cemeteries on an as-needed basis.
• Locating and documenting all plantations in Georgia that utilized slave labor with at least 40 slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for enslavers and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.
• Locating and developing profiles for Freedmen in Georgia.
• Make profiles for the Georgian Tuskegee Airman who don't yet have profiles on WikiTree.
• Begin One Place Studies for African-American towns and communities in Georgia.

October Through December 2023 Project

TBA

Other Georgia Projects Pending

• Georgia African-American Notables
• African-American Cemeteries in Georgia
• Military and War, African-Americans from Georgia
• Georgia Plantations
• African-American Resources for Georgia - breakdown by counties for Wikitree's US Black Heritage Project
• US Black Heritage: Connectors Page (See Georgia section for the 10 largest unconnected branches by birth location)

Other One Place Studies

• See: African American sites top list of Georgia's 10 'Places in Peril'

Resources

• African-American Resources for Georgia for a list of history, photographical, map, and genealogical resources.
• "List of plantations in Georgia (U.S. state)
• "Georgia Plantations", Georgia Genealogy Trails
• Freedmen Narratives
• Young, Jeffrey. "Slavery in Antebellum Georgia." New Georgia Encyclopedia, last modified Sep 30, 2020
• Search Wikitree for Slaves in Georgia
• Lowcountry Africana, African American Genealogy in SC, GA and FL

Stickers

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

Place {{Georgia Sticker|born in Georgia}} below the African American sticker if they were born in Georgia. Place {{Georgia Sticker}} below the African American sticker if they lived in Georgia 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