During your early discoveries of family ancestry, it is likely that you will find words, phrases, photographs and other documents that may trigger emotions and reactions that you may have...
The African American families in the post-slavery, Reconstruction years See informationwanted.org “Eliza Jane Elam searching for Eliza Jane Owens,” Lost Friends Ad, Southwestern Christian Advocate (New Orleans, LA), January 25, 1883, Last Seen:...
As genealogists on all levels -- beginners who are researching family histories to the veterans/professionals -- we have to learn from our ancestors' experiences. In your reading of this wonderful...
News release, 19 August 2021 http://www.uzh.ch/en.html Humans have been always on the move, creating a complex history of languages and cultural traditions dispersed over the globe. An international team under...
This is part two of the blogs about the Great Compromises in September 1850 and 1895 that impacted African Americans. “To those of my race who depend on bettering...
This report from Chicago, Illinois by health officials in 1918 reads like a one that could have been written in 2021. The upshot is that we should learn from our...
SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 2021 Looking forward ... Photo by Suliman Sallehi on Pexels.com For this moment, consider the possibility that you chose to come forth into physical...
Source: Today in History - September 20 | Library of Congress (loc.gov) On September 18 and 20, 1850, history recorded two distinct “compromises” that impacted African American lives. Part One,...
Growing up in Omaha, Nebraska and Chicago, Illinois, I am used to frequent ribbing about the Midwestern "foreign land." It was while I was attending Clark College (now CAU, a...
