BLACK_HERITAGE Genealogists
290 members are following BLACK_HERITAGE genealogy content and G2G forum activity. Join the Black_Heritage Project to collaborate.
Deanna Fratus
Apr 28, 2024
I have some African American/Black Ancestors.
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Lisa (Anderson) Haskins
Apr 23, 2024 | |
Terese Higgins
Apr 12, 2024
Working on the US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project
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A (Hine) H
Apr 5, 2024
I learned about the US Black Heritage Project after discovering a slave owner among my ancestors and want to follow and contribute to the mission of the project.
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M Ellington
Apr 2, 2024
Help for finding enslaved ancestors.
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Ray Landry
Mar 19, 2024
I am interested in buidling profiles of African Americans who resided in SW La in the period 1860-1880.
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Rosann Kent
Mar 15, 2024
I have been documenting formerly enslaved and free people of color in north Georgia, particularly those associated with gold mining.
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LaMyra Morton
Mar 7, 2024
follow
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Michelle Hinton
Mar 6, 2024
I come across slaves/former slaves while researching my ancestors and would like to be able to add them for the benefit of their ancestors.
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Terri (Coffey) Smith
Mar 5, 2024
Working on the USBH 1880 Census Project.
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Christine Miller
Mar 2, 2024
1880 census
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Alice (Williams) O'Dea
Mar 2, 2024
Working on 1880...
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C Merrick
Mar 2, 2024
Have contributed to US Black Heritage Project,1880 Census
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Vik-Thor Rose
Feb 24, 2024
Working on adding 1880 census
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Ashley Hurlburt
Feb 23, 2024 | |
Mike Travis
Feb 22, 2024
Member
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Roshonda Smith
Feb 22, 2024
Help with my family tree
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John Stewart
Feb 20, 2024
I am working on the USBH 1880 Census Project
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Olivia Cunningham
Feb 18, 2024
I am biracial and very interested in my black heritage!
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Nikki Orvis
Feb 16, 2024
Keep up to date on what the Project is doing.
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Johanna (Laubach) Robinson
Feb 15, 2024
Documenting Macon County, Alabama and my husband's family
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Jean (Proffitt) Nunnally
Feb 13, 2024
I'm following the Black Heritage Project because I want to help connect more Black Americans to their ancestors.
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Barbara Rockett
Feb 11, 2024
I'm helping to enter Black families listed in the 1880 U.S. Census for Mississippi.
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Alfred Butler Jr
Feb 11, 2024
helping out in USBH 1880 Census Project
Also related to Frederick Douglass via marriage and DNA to surname Daggett [edit] | |
S Davis
Feb 10, 2024
Adding to USBH Project
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Stephanie Jones
Feb 9, 2024
Tracing my family's history.
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Kathleen Kowalski
Feb 8, 2024
BH project 1880
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Daryl Seager
Feb 7, 2024
I'm working on making sure every black person on the 1880 census has been added to wiki tree.
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Cindy (Brown) Croxton
Feb 7, 2024
My ancestors were slave owners, and I would like to help where I can.
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Jennifer (Lawrence) McDougall
Jan 23, 2024
I'm obsessing about learning wikitree and very interested in this project so want to follow this tag. Updating my profiles for enslaver ancestors for example https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Simon-7234 and want to learn policies etc as I view this feed. Thank you!
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Mason Bunker
Jan 10, 2024
am a part of usbh project
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Megan Oliver Briggs
Jan 4, 2024
Interested in learning more about my roots
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Laurie Caraway
Dec 21, 2023 | |
Alyssha Rose (Jordan) Jordan-Bird
Dec 10, 2023
I’m an African American woman who is trying to find more information about my African American ancestors.
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Joyce (Bjorkgren) Rivette
Dec 8, 2023
Joined USBH project
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Val Rollins
Nov 27, 2023
Interested in linking Black descendants to enslaved ancestors that I run across in doing genealogy
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Sharon (Coyle) Ballard
Nov 22, 2023
As a descendant of enslavers, I am interested in participating in the US Black Heritage Project
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Delbra (Barr) Brown
Nov 17, 2023
black heritage
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Kristen Stiefel
Nov 9, 2023 | |
Amy Jones
Nov 4, 2023
I will be working to research and build profiles of the people who were enslaved.
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Janet (Adams) Demcoe
Nov 3, 2023 | |
Timothy Kilby
Nov 1, 2023
Researcher conducting and documenting African American genealogies
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Christine Walkley
Oct 31, 2023
Interested in my ancestors
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JaKobi Burton
Oct 22, 2023
I want to help say their names. I want to help illuminate the names of the Enslaved listed only by a first name, gender, or tick mark and reattach them and their descendants to their complete identity through sourced genealogical records.
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Z (W) Tyler
Oct 5, 2023
I have entered a new profile and want to keep up with updates and news.
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D Armistead
Sep 28, 2023
To help descendants of enslaved persons working for some of my ancestors in the search for their family members.
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Naomi Van Tol
Sep 10, 2023
I'm interested in researching the enslaved people in my husband's family tree.
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Kate Thompson
Sep 10, 2023
My chromosome #18 and #21 shows African DNA.
Stuck in Amherst, VA with my fifth great grandparents, Richeson Taylor and Isabella Williams. [edit] | |
Sjana Lee (Dreyer) Bauer
Sep 5, 2023
I've been going through family wills and documenting all enslaved people so family can be found and linked back together.
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Mary (Brown) Haak
Sep 3, 2023
I am doing research on early Virginia settlers in my own family. Many were enslavers.
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Shonte Anthony
Sep 1, 2023
I’m following to get tips and help how to find my African American family members
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Rick Fryrear
Aug 20, 2023
A few Fryrears in Kentucky were slave owners, and one escaped slave, John Fryrear (last name as given on his enlistment papers based on his statement that Francis Fryrear was previously his "master") enlisted in the US Colored Infantry at Louisville in 1865.
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Kathryn Morse
Aug 16, 2023
I live in the US South and primarily work on profiles of ancestors, there. So I see slave records. I want to help the project as I see pertinent records.
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Tabitha (Daellenbach) Howell
Aug 12, 2023
I have a special interest in documenting enslaved persons and slave holders. I'm familiar with the BK method.
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Laurel (Kemper) Kennedy
Aug 11, 2023
Linked descendants
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Susan Percival
Aug 2, 2023
Still searching for GRIFFIN in VA & PA and the relatives of PAULINE/PAULINA, b in VA around 1815-1829, her mother reported to have been born in Africa.
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Taneya Koonce
Jul 31, 2023
member of the Black Heritage project
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Sara Rice
Jul 21, 2023
My African American Ancestors are either Smith or Taylor - I haven't found them yet. DNA says Benin Togo.
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Eleanor Harrison
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Emily Miller
Jul 12, 2023
Working on Pen Park project
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Viola (Osborne) Baskerville
Jun 18, 2023
Tracing African Americans with the surnames Braxton, Corbin, Cobbs, Gentry and Turrentine in their family trees. We may be connected.
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Eva Head
Jun 10, 2023
I'm interested in helping source and connect African-American profiles. As I came across more African-Americans during my person family research, and saw how difficult it could be to find sources, I wanted to do what I could.
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Moneak Jones
Jun 9, 2023
Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Texas
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Lynda Davis
Jun 8, 2023 | |
Mary Baker
Jun 6, 2023
curious on this aspect of our history
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Marvin Turner
Jun 2, 2023
Working on my family tree and willing to assist others.
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D F
May 27, 2023
Participation
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Sarah (Councell) Turner
May 21, 2023
Participating in the US Black Heritage Project
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Virginia (Butter) Fields
May 18, 2023
I am transcribing wills and attempting to identify slaves who are named in those wills and in the census records.
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Doug Strand
May 17, 2023
I am very excited about this project and hope to be helpful in advancing it.
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Nadine Norman
May 10, 2023
Looking for ancestors lost to us
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Jenelle Mumpower
May 4, 2023
I have ancestors from North Carolina & Virginia areas that I'm trying to find more about.
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Anonymous Reed
May 1, 2023
My family tree includes Black people.
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Terri Pleasant
Apr 30, 2023
To learn about my ancestors
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Nathaniel Peterson
Apr 28, 2023
Attempting to find information on the Slave owning Petersons from Brunswick County and Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
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Melanie Knight-Smith
Apr 23, 2023
I have ancestors that are African through DNA testing.
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Evelyn Aniton
Apr 22, 2023
I am an African-American.
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Sarah (Fischer) Gleason
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Carmen Glass
Apr 19, 2023
Would like to determine any ancestral connections and read about history of past events.
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E. Stagner
Apr 5, 2023
Some of my ancestors were slave owners. I am working to add the names of slaves I have found listed in wills and probates to hopefully connect them to descendants.
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Allison Thomas
Apr 1, 2023
I am trying to connect with the Black descendants of my enslaver ancestors.
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Mike Denis
Mar 31, 2023
Because of research I have done since 2008 in central Kentucky
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Trisha Ellis
Mar 27, 2023
I want to help where I can.
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Tiffany Blair
Mar 24, 2023
Interest in finding out more regarding my roots on my father's side.
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Mary (Proctor) Sleppy
Mar 15, 2023
Interested in learning more about the project.
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Zemo Trevathan
Mar 14, 2023
I have black ancestors, and am very interested in building relationships/community across our shared and distinct ancestries.
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Chandra (Askew) Martin
Mar 13, 2023
Participating in the USBH project.
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Tamera Bush
Mar 10, 2023
to connect family history
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Angel (West) Faull
Mar 10, 2023
Black heritage matters, and everyone should be able to trace their ancestors.
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Karen Lee
Mar 2, 2023
I am the descendant of an enslaver, working to identify the names of the enslaved, and where possible connect them to their descendant trees.
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Y (Lee) Zenaida-Cohen
Feb 26, 2023
This describes my heritage.
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Susan McNamee
Feb 24, 2023
Joining project
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Dot Davis
Feb 18, 2023
Stinson Plantation Slaves
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N Gauthier
Feb 12, 2023
interested in increasing Wikitree profiles
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Carmela Work
Feb 11, 2023
My grandpa was black, I want to see if I can find out where my black ancestors came from in terms of which parts of Africa
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Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Feb 10, 2023
Want to help with this project.
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D (Grosvenor) Anonymous
Feb 9, 2023
I am specifically interested in WW1 soldiers of the British West Indies Regiment and West India Regiment and ensuring their contributions are recognised. Notables with Caribbean heritage.
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Nate Whitmal III
Feb 9, 2023
I'm following this tag to learn more about how to find my ancestors' data.
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DeeTee Terry
Feb 6, 2023
Finding my enslaved ancestors before 1870 in the US census
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Melanie (Doherty) McComb
Feb 4, 2023
Volunteering with USBH
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Donna Fournier
Jan 30, 2023
Helper
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Christian Burks
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Dounia Millimono
Jan 18, 2023
I'm interested in connecting the dots between my African and African-American ascendants
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Tawanna Billingsley
Jan 15, 2023
Genealogical research
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Matt Fuller
Jan 13, 2023
African American Fuller heritage
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Holly Johnson PhD
Dec 30, 2022
keep up with updates and posts for the US Black Heritage Project
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Fatima Hollis
Dec 26, 2022
Black American Heritage
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Cyprien Lenoir
Dec 24, 2022
to learn about the forgotten ones who help build this country
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Denise Brewer
Dec 21, 2022
I am interested in finding connections for family members and myself.
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George Jobson
Dec 19, 2022
My own and my wife’s African Heritage
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PE Rosner
Dec 7, 2022
I have close family members who have African ancestry
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Nan (Lambert) Starjak
Nov 25, 2022
Working toward the project's goal of 250,000 profiles by the end of 2023.
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Kathryn (Lake) Hogan U.E.
Nov 24, 2022
My spouse and children are direct descendants of enslaved ancestors.
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Tasha Moody
Nov 18, 2022
I am joining the Black Heritage project
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Sara Lively
Nov 16, 2022
Through the US Black Heritage Project of Wikitree, I am actively researching my enslaver ancestors and contributing to help build our records of enslaved people.
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Hilary Mason
Nov 13, 2022
I’m an African American and hope to contribute to our history on these pages.
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Paul Schmehl
Nov 11, 2022
Added this after research let me to both slave names and a family of freed blacks
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Leah (Monk) Chaillet-Hines
Nov 7, 2022
An area of interest
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Susanne Hale
Nov 5, 2022
Hoping to help with this great project!
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Tabatha (Jaeger) Steele
Nov 5, 2022
I want to help preserve the history and find ancestors.
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Heather Kelsch
Nov 5, 2022
To assist in giving history back to all people
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Wanda (Reeder) Horn
Oct 30, 2022
My brother and I have a small amount of African DNA from the Bantu people and matches to African American cousins.
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Shirleen (Bartholomew) Beland
Oct 29, 2022
Because I have some distant black heritage, but I've not been able to find it.
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Karen Lowe
Oct 28, 2022
As a project member, I enjoy adding Black families to WikiTree.
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Crystal Queen
Oct 11, 2022
US Black American
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Loretta Buckner
Oct 9, 2022
Re-connecting families to their Early American origins as unwilling colonists, and unpaid abused labor.
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Cindy (Hawes) Van Dam
Oct 7, 2022
I am researching the descendants of people enslaved by my husband’s ancestors. I also have several African American friends who I have helped with their genealogy. With their permission I am building trees here.
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Kimberly Kelly
Oct 7, 2022
I am of Black descent and I am very interested in the project.
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Vicky (Campbell) Bredenberg
Oct 5, 2022
Family of enslaved African descent
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Leah Kerr
Sep 21, 2022
I want to find other family members.
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Dona (Barnett) Buckmann
Sep 20, 2022
Found probate records with slave names in a family group I've been researching.
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Christopher Vandroff
Sep 13, 2022
To learn more about where I come from
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Johnathan James
Sep 10, 2022
I'm black, so hopefully this will be useful, and hopefully I can be of use.
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Heather (Foster) Foster-McCullough
Sep 9, 2022
I have ancestors who are documented slaveowners, so I have relatives who are descended from those they enslaved. Possibly shared ancestry. I want to honour those who persevered and remember their names when they are found
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D Rahming
Aug 31, 2022
Interesting subject matter
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Kim Williams
Aug 28, 2022
Would like to join project
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S. Fary
Aug 23, 2022
I want to research, create, source, connect and improve profiles both for people who were enslaved and for their descendants.
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Nanette (Campbell) Rohrbaugh
Aug 18, 2022
I have enslavers in my ancestry and I have added profiles of the enslaved as I come across them in my research.
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Cinderella (Ware) Hayes
Aug 11, 2022
I ma black and exploring my heritage beyond just knowing that I am black.
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Sarah (Thompson) Durham
Aug 10, 2022
I'm interested in following and in the future assisting in this project.
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Judith Davidson Ph.D.
Aug 9, 2022
I am investigating the enslaver and enslaved members of my family tree.
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Jacqueline (Young) Braddy
Aug 4, 2022
PATH Project
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Paige Singleton
Aug 3, 2022
Keep Connecting!
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Stacey Martin
Aug 3, 2022
working on project
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Mary (Todd) Todd-Allen
Aug 1, 2022
I am passionate about locating, naming, connecting and honoring those who came before me.
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Vicki (Waller) Posey
Jul 30, 2022
Interested in helping
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Jack Cheiky Jr
Jul 29, 2022
Just want to help.
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Beverly (Felty) Enslow
Jul 28, 2022
Interest. Work on African American Baha'i profiles, and others.
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Charles Uzzell
Jul 26, 2022
I study slavery & try to track slaves from wills to present day.
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Susan Hedgpeth
Jul 26, 2022
I'm looking for family connections.
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Benjamin Booth
Jul 24, 2022
I have some African American distant cousins.
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Daphne (Foster Goodwin) Foster
Jul 22, 2022
To find unlock as much of my family’s history as possible including finding who owned my ancestors as slaves.
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J Cheatwood
Jul 20, 2022
Many ancestors from South Carolina owned enslaved people. I have a list of 140 slave names. Many more unnamed.
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Laura (Franger) Corbett
Jul 20, 2022
Honoring the ancestors of my longest, dearest friend.
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Katherine Wood
Jul 20, 2022
I'm beginning to enter information about enslavers and enslaved persons in my own family.
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Ursula Lenori
Jul 11, 2022
To help with adding African American
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William Spriggs
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Georgette King
Jul 2, 2022 | |
Denise E
Jun 29, 2022
Profiles, profile improvement
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Steve Florman
Jun 24, 2022
I am committed to helping in the effort to connect African-Americans with their families.
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Sherrell Brown
Jun 18, 2022
I'm looking for information on my black ancestors, as far back as I can go; to the slave ships if possible.
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Cheryl (Daniels) Varner Ms.
May 25, 2022
Connecting with enslaved family members
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Heather Quinlan
May 21, 2022
I am currently working on compiling information about an African-American cemetery on Staten Island that was paved over in the 1950s.
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Cossy (Veatch) Ksander
May 5, 2022
I've added profiles for the people enslaved by my VA and KY ancestors. I'm beginning the MD and NC ones.
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Jane Hoskinson
Apr 20, 2022
I'm working on the Missouri Freedmen's Narratives.
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Donald Brearley
Apr 16, 2022
I've done a bit of this in Dorchester County MD, transcribing wills and land records, bills of sale, and manumissions for my family and their relatives
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Annette Harpole
Mar 19, 2022 | |
Kya Winbush
Mar 19, 2022
Interested in African-American genealogy
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Natalie (Durbin) Trott
Mar 13, 2022 | |
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Mar 7, 2022
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Rudy Ramsey
Mar 4, 2022
I have slaveowner ancestors and am interested in helping any possible slave descendants in finding their connection.
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Monica (Bradford) Hayes
Mar 2, 2022
I am African American currently researching my genealogy.
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Kay Jemison
Feb 23, 2022
I'm currently researching my own surname Jemison, and the Nobles family. Black heritage is of great interest to me within any surname.
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Amy Johnson
Feb 23, 2022
I'm interested in this topic and would like to be of assistance where I can.
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H Baggott
Feb 13, 2022
New member looking to find ancestors and relatives. Also looking to help others expand their trees. Ties in Alabama, Florida, Georgia and elsewhere.
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Tatianna Newman
Feb 6, 2022
Black family Lineage
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Jay James
Feb 6, 2022
I'm Black and researching my family.
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William Hosea
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Bree Anthony
Jan 27, 2022
Finding my roots
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Tammy Nuckols
Jan 27, 2022
Trying to help trace the slave population my antebellum southern ancestors may have owned at one point and document their family tree.
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Miyako Jones
Jan 26, 2022
I'm interested in helping with the USBH project.
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Rodney Nicholas
Jan 14, 2022
I am an African American who is very interested in my Black ancestry.
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A Tobin
Jan 13, 2022
Family history.
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David Pratt
Jan 3, 2022
Specialty
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Morgan Mulligan
Jan 3, 2022
Project Member
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Wayne Tucker II
Jan 2, 2022
I research enslaved people in Massachusetts.
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A Kopp
Jan 1, 2022
Related to the kings per dna.
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Claire Taylor
Jan 1, 2022
provide more information about enslaved people from documents of slave-owning ancestors in NC, VA, possibly MD
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Suzanne (Nix) Dyck
Dec 31, 2021
Participating in the US Black Heritage Project
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Marcia Green
Dec 30, 2021 | |
Jai Sanders III
Dec 30, 2021
Of course Black Heritage...
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Nancy (Peterson) Morrissey
Dec 29, 2021
Highlands County Florida, and associated black family research, includes Highlands Park, Lakeside, Lakeside Historic, and other predominate Black Cemeteries in the County. [FL, GA, AL, NC, SC, VA, NJ, IL migration]
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Linda (Lenze) Mearse
Dec 27, 2021
following, to aid myself in proper data-entry
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Evan Overton
Dec 26, 2021
I am interested in my own Black heritage as a person of mixed race descent that includes African-Americans on my paternal side. My father's family is from North Carolina and from what I understand before that, Bermuda.
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David Hamilton
Dec 26, 2021 | |
Jaki Erdoes
Dec 24, 2021
This seems like a worthwhile project.
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Richard Rosenberger
Dec 19, 2021
I’ve been working on US Black Heritage: Connecting Challenge
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Larry (Caldwell) Klaasen
Dec 17, 2021
to help further the project
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Noliwe Hill
Dec 13, 2021
Researching Black Heritage
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Carole (Kirch) Bannes
Dec 10, 2021
Working on USBH Project, focusing on central Ohio and Missouri.
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