Maria S. Montgomery & Allison Thomas Maria Montgomery found me on Ancestry.com in 2016. Our family trees overlap because my ancestors enslaved hers. We are “linked descendants”—cousins regardless of whether…
Allison ThomasJanuary 19, 2021
Dear BitterSweet Readers and Writers: We are pleased to announce the re-launch of BitterSweet: Linked Through Slavery, a blog hosted by the Linked Descendants Working Group and Coming to the…
BitterSweet EditorsDecember 22, 2020
-- 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
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