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Uniting African Americans
with their present-day unknown
relatives
whose ancestors were separated during slavery
THE FORM IS BEING DESIGNED.
Once it has been created, you will be asked to print out the form
to give to newspapers to include as a public service to the community
and to churches and other organizations to include in their printed bulletins.
We understand that the registration and data-gathering processes will be going on for decades. Every journey of a thousand miles has its first step. This is ours.
As the years go by, volunteers will gather information from national, state, county, and city archives containing slave sales records and slaveowners' ledgers, as well as post-Civil War marriage, birth and death records, Reconstruction era voting records, and every other record that still exists. On the federal level, there are thousands of slave narratives from ex-slaves interviewed during the 1930's in all of the southern states and a few northern ones. The records of these formerly enslaved individuals include their full names (and maiden names), and often the names of their spouses, parents, children, slaveowners, plus the state, county, and city limits in which they were born and even, in many cases, the exact street address, city, and state in where they were when they were interviewed.
A database will be created with all of the blood-line last names of each entry. When any last name is searched, all entries with that name will appear along with all related information. We will provide a safe way for individuals to be contacted if they wish to be.
The database will be available online. Those with computers can assist those who do not have one. Libraries with internet access are available to the general public.
For those of you who have access to computers, please print out many copies this form to give to all of your relatives -- especially the eldest -- as well as to your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, and African Americans who are total strangers to you. Please ask them to copy the form and give them to their relatives -- especially the eldest -- and to their friends, their neighbors, their co-workers, and African Americans who are total strangers to them.
Please give as many copies as you can to organizations and churches and civic groups and ask their members to photocopy the forms to give to their relatives -- especially the eldest -- and to their friends, their neighbors, their co-workers, and African Americans who are total strangers to them.
Please fill out as many forms as possible online because that will save us so much data entry work.
THE FORM IS BEING DESIGNED.
Once it has been created, you will be asked to print out the form
to give to newspapers to include as a public service to the community
and to churches and other organizations to include in their printed bulletins.If you would like to be emailed when the form has been completed, please send an email to:
Here's our list of volunteers' cities.
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