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
-- By Trina Michelle Robinson I’ve always been fascinated by migration stories. Hearing the details about why a person left the place of their birth to settle somewhere new always…
BitterSweet EditorsDecember 22, 2020
Violet Craig Turner (1828-1906) When I was a child, Uncle George's stories and the serious inflection in his voice always commanded my attention. He frequently told me about…
Antoinette BroussardOctober 23, 2020
“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
Part 2 of the Oral History post describes the kinds of impacts that oral history research can have, regardless of the circumstances of the family whose history is being woven…
Prinny AndersonApril 4, 2017
So many of us want to know our ancestors’ stories and find out more about where we’ve come from. DNA research has advanced our ability to find and learn about…
Prinny AndersonMarch 28, 2017
Search by Category
RESEARCH & FINDING DOCUMENTS
Stories of documents lost and found, of the research journey & the various methods used
HEALING, REPAIR & ACTION
Narratives about personal acknowledgements, apologies, healing, reparations & personal or public activism
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE
HISTORY, CULTURE, PEOPLE, PLACES, EVENTS
Focus on specific historical stories, cultures, people, and the power of places & spaces
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE
SLAVERY & ITS LEGACIES
General & individual narratives of slavery. Stories of historic harms & institutional racism. Telling the truth about slavery.
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE
LINKED DESCENDANTS
Stories about descendants of enslavers and enslaved connecting & learning more about their shared history
CLICK HERE
CLICK HERE