On October 25, 2023 Dionne Ford, author of the memoir Go Back and Get It: A Memoir of Race, Inheritance, and Intergenerational Healing (2023), answered questions from participants of the…
BitterSweet EditorsNovember 29, 2023
"DNA doesn’t lie," genealogist Charlotte Bocage explains her essay in The Searcher (Summer 2003, Vol 60, No 3, pp. 63-65, a publication of the Southern California Genealogical Society). "I am…
Charlotte BocageSeptember 8, 2023
-- By Pat Simmons The beginning of my author bio reads, “Pat Simmons is a self-proclaimed genealogy sleuth who is passionate about researching her ancestors and then casting them in…
Pat SimmonsNovember 3, 2022
-- By Patricia Lowther Stamp Show in Wisconsin On Saturday I attended a stamp show with my husband, Kevin, here in Springfield, Virginia. Kevin steered me to the Philatelic dealer…
Patricia LowtherOctober 14, 2022
Developed for the Linked Descendants meeting, May 2022 African American family history and genealogy researchers often find their work made more difficult or blocked altogether by the legacies of slavery…
BitterSweet EditorsMay 27, 2022
BitterSweet talked with CTTT member Beverly Bevel about her experiences researching her enslaved and enslaver ancestors. In 2019, Beverly founded “The Lewellen Project,” a non-profit organization with the mission to…
BitterSweet EditorsApril 12, 2022
Sharon Leslie Morgan moved to Noxubee County, Mississippi to research her ancestors’ history. Morgan’s great-great-grandmother, Betty Warfe Gavin, was enslaved there, and gave birth to 17 children. The father of…
Sharon Leslie MorganJanuary 4, 2021
“Is genealogy racist?" I typed into the search engine. I had just received results from an ancestry DNA test. No surprises there --- 99.9% northwestern European genetic heritage. I immediately…
Diane KenastonApril 1, 2019
Part 3 concludes this blog series on conducting oral history research through the story of the Getting Word project. If you want to know more about the project and the…
Prinny AndersonApril 11, 2017