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Whence We Came
Reviewed by Elizabeth McMillan
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The groundbreaking 1977 television miniseries Roots prompted many people
to eagerly explore their heritage. But this enthusiasm cannot repair all the damage done
to the historical records of blacks during and after slavery, nor compensate for the pain
in re-creating it. For African-Americans, traditional genealogical sources are harder to
navigate and interpret. Thus, family-history seekers must be prepared to look into two
sets of records - one black and one white which poses a special challenge for tracing
African-American genealogy. Finding Your People: An African-American Guide to
Discovering Your Roots offers crucial advice and specific tools to help identify and
overcome these challenges.
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Written by Sandra Lee Jamison, Finding Your People
serves as a comprehensive guide to public records, alternative sources, and other
documents. “When I began researching my family history, I made a few false starts and
took more than a few missteps,” wrote Jamison. “I used the wrong sources,
applied bad strategy, and held unrealistic expectations. You can benefit from my newfound
wisdom and learn from my mistakes.”
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This step-by-step handbook offers
exciting new ways to unveil the past including: Locating lineage and pedigree documents *
Finding slave trade chronologies * Alternate spellings of common surnames * Interviewing
methods * Setting goals and keeping records * Public vs. “alternate” records *
African-American research sources * Local, National and international resources *
Organizing family reunions * Creating pedigree charts and family group sheets * Using
census information. |
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Discovering from where your family comes can help
restore the precious and personal link between yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
M
July 1999
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