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Posted on September 9, 2015 by grant.hayter-menzies — 4 Comments

A blessing of tracing genealogy back to colonial America is that so much of its documentary history has been so richly excerpted in published histories or reproduced in full in a variety of formats that it’s not always necessary to…

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Remembering their names

Posted on October 22, 2013 by grant.hayter-menzies — 2 Comments

When I joined Coming To The Table over two years ago, I began a journey—a journey into the lives and times of my slave-holding ancestors and, most important for me, into the lives of the people they had enslaved. Taken…

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