Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity - Softcover

Woodtor, Dee

 
9780375708435: Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 037570843X ISBN 13: 9780375708435
Verlag: Random House Reference &, 1999

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A comprehensive guide to AfricanAmerican history and genealogy shares uptodate advice on tracing a family's African roots, explaining how to use the Internet, census reports, and other records to trace a family tree. Reprint.

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Dr. Dee Parmer Woodtor is an instructor at DePaul University's School for New Learning in Afro-American Family History and Genealogy and at Chicago's Newberry Library. She is the author of the children's book Big Meeting. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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Mamadou Kouyate "Sundiata", An Epic of Old Mali, a.d. 1217-1257

Two major questions of the ages are: Who am I? and Where am I going? From the moment the first African slaves were dragged onto these shores, these questions have become increasingly harder for African-Americans to answer. To find the answers, you first must discover where you have been, you must go back to your family tree--but you must dig through rocky layers of lost information, of slavery--to find your roots.

During the Great Migration in the 1940s, when African-Americans fled the strangling hands of Jim Crow for the relative freedoms of the North, many tossed away or buried the painful memories of their past. As we approach the new millennium, African-Americans are reaching back to uncover where we have been, to help us determine wh

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Ten Most Important Points for Beginning Genealogists

1. Know that the records about your family's past are there, and your task is
to find them.

2.  Try filling out your first set of genealogy forms -- a five-generation
chart and a family group sheet.  That will tell you how much you know and how
much you have to find out from family members.

3. Call or write all important family members to let them know you plan to do
the family's genealogy and you pray for their cooperation in this important
project

4.  This is not a do-it-alone project. Ask a close family member to be your
partner, preferably in the state where ancestors lived.

5.  Collect and copy all of your own family's  records -- birth marriage, and
death certificates as well as other records.

6.  Collect and copy form your parents and grandparents all of their old
records -- old funeral programs, employment records, photos, bible entries,
school or military records.

7. Create an address book of all  your relatives who are 50 years old and
over.  These are the people you will interview first.

8.  If you've done the above things, you have already collected quite a bit of
material.  Time to get organized! A small two-drawer filing cabinet in which
you file all your materials is a must.

9. Join a local genealogy society.

10:  Try your first set of interviews starting with your parents or
grandparents.

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Verlag
Random House Reference &
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
037570843X
ISBN 13 
9780375708435
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Anzahl der Seiten
499
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