SLAVE VOYAGES ORG - TWO DATBASES : TRANS-ATLANTIC and INTRA-AMERICAN

SLAVE VOYAGES ORG  TRANSATLANTIC - era 1514-1866  - INTRA-AMERICAN

year -name of vessel - where captives were purchased - where ship landed - numbers of slaves alive on ship at arrival - name of captain.

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Slavery As It Exists In America.
Slavery As It Exists in England

source: Library of Congress -Washington DC -Prints and Photographs Division

FAMILY RECORD DESIGNED BY A.L. SILVERNAIL

Title : Family record / designed and executed with a pen by A.L. Silvernail, Ionia, Mich.

Summary Design drawing for a family record, with winged angels, birds, blank ovals for photographs, and spaces to list births, marriages, and deaths.

Names : Silvernail, A. L., artist

Created / Published C1886.

Headings Drawings--American--1880-1890.

Family trees--1880-1890.

Notes--18876 U.S. Copyright Office

SENTIMENTAL FAMILY REGISTER

 

MEMORY TABLE FOR DEPARTED LOVED ONES

From the Library of Congress, this Memory Table lithograph was designed 

by A. M. Bleichrode, circal 1974 in New York.

FAMILY HISTORY REGISTER DESIGNED BY CURRIER and IVES 1874

This family register is held by The Library of Congress. 

It is a Currier and Ives design circa 1874

and is a hand-colored lithograph 1870-1880.

AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY RECORD CIRCA 1880 SHOWING PROGRESS IN FREEDOM

I love the Before and After the Civil War of the African American farm family illustrated in this chart, which is held by the Library of Congress Collection.  It was produced by Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio.  It's a chromolithograph and is circa about 1880, about fifteen years after the slaves were freed.

FOURTH OF JULY 1876

This image is held by the Library of Congress.  It is identified this way.  The flag that has waved one hundred years - A scene on the morning of the fourth day of July 1876. ( In Washington D.C.) Fabronius; E.P. and L. Restein's oilchrome, Philadephia : National Chromo Co publication  Philadelphia. A chromolithograph by Dominque C. Fabronius.

LORDS PRAYER FAMILY CHART 1890

This image is from The Library of Congress.  The description says it is a print showing an oval design composed of flowers in frames fashioned from tree branches, at center, within the oval is a young girl kneeling before a book open to The Lords Prayer...

It was created in Louisville, Kentucky by C.D. Phelps  C 1890 

FAMILY RECORD

Make a page for each ancestor?

This image is held by the Library of Congress.

It was originally copyright 1878 by artist John. R. Staples.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HOLOCAUST - FREE and PAY DATABASES IN EUROPE

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - HOLOCAUST STUDIES 

The following is just ONE of the portholes from this web page. 'The Archives Portal Europe is one of the milestones achieved by the participants of the APEnet Project supported by the European Commission in the eContentplus Programme. The project's consortium currently consists of twelve national archives/national archive administrations and five members.

Archivos Estatales (Spain)

Archiwa Państwowe (Poland)

Arhiv Republike Slovenije (Slovenia)

Bundesarchiv (Germany)

Γενικά αρχεία του κράτους (Greece)

Direcção-Geral de Arquivos (Portugal)

Direction des Archives de France

Kansallisarkisto (Finland)

Latvijas Arhīvi (Latvia)

Nationaal Archief (The Netherlands)

National Archives of Malta

Riksarkivet (Sweden)

National Archives of Ireland

National Archives of Belgium

Държавна Агенция Арxиви (Bulgaria)

Department of Archives Administration and Records Management of the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic

Rahvusarhiiv (Estonia)

A POMEGRANATE FAMILY TREE

Image from The Library of Congress - United States

THE ANCESTRY OF PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON

A chart from the Library of Congress that includes the English Heraldry of the Washington family.  I'm always interested in the artistic notions that various family trees, records, and other documents reveal.  These historical renderings can inspire us to think about ways we can fashion our own ancestral charts.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANTS (ALSO KNOWN AS REPARATION LAND GRANTS) #2 GEORGE WASHINGTON FARMER and LAND SPECULATOR : LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

This wonderful article from the United States Library of Congress in the George Washington papers collection tells about his interest in acquiring land but also in seeing that his soldiers got theirs.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS : WASHINGTON AS LAND SPECULATOR

He had over 52,000 acres by 1800. Wouldn't it be a thrill to trace LAND OWNERSHIP in your family and find out that at some point George Washington owned it?  Well, if your ancestors were in the Ohio Valley or Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Kentucky, or Virginia there is a chance.

Excerpt: Washington's lifelong interest in land speculation is illustrated in the fight over bounty lands promised to the veterans of the Virginia Regiment who fought with him in the French and Indian War. In this episode, Washington acted on behalf of his fellow veterans as well as vigorously, sometimes aggressively, in staking out his own land claims.

This post is part of a series.  To pull up the series, click on the tag Help - Land Grants - AWG

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WHAT'S UP at the FAMILYSEARCH - LDS FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY IN SALT LAKE DURING CORONAVIRUS-19 LOCKDOWN

The Family History Library owned and operated by the Latter Day Saints Church (ie. The Mormons) in Salt Lake City, Utah, is genealogy central in the United States.  The outside of the physical library now has the FAMILYSEARCH title on it.

So many generations of researchers and historians - since before there was Internet or on-line databases - have depended upon it.  The library currently holds more data than the Library of Congress.  Television series that focus on genealogy such as Who Do You Think You Are, depend on professionals and research assistants who spend about 1000 hours of research for one 40-minute program.

If you have a FamilySearch account, which is easy enough to sign up for, you can log in and watch live stream videos or find past live stream videos done on Zoon now archived on YouTube.  Some of these are instructional, others update you on what's happening there, and there are some question-and-answer opportunities.

I suspect that a lot of people are using their time indoors to do their genealogy research because every time I log in to FamilySearch and start a search the whirling icon keeps on whirling.

I know my browser needs updated but I cannot at this time do it.  It's annoying that the message comes up EACH AND EVERY TIME a new page shows up on my screen.  What a pain in the butt.

The library was affected by the recent earthquake that occurred in Salt Lake just shortly after it all closed down due to the virus.  The shelves are sturdy and bolted so none of them fell but some ceiling panels and books did land on the floor.  This is good news.  Should it reopen and you be researching there, you're not likely to be hurt in an earthquake of the 5.7 or less category.

5.7 is a good shake but nothing compared to the Northridge quake of 1994 which was 6.7.  (The earth experience earthquakes all over every single day, this we know due to the latest technology.  However, it does seem to me that earthquakes are occurring in more places that don't expect them and where housing might not be built or fortified for them.)

Enjoy your research.  Try to take good notes you can read in the future, so you know where you stopped, what your goals are, and so on.


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SLAVE NARRATIVES - HISTORY and TESTIMONY FOR GENEALOGY

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS - INFORMATION ON SLAVE NARRATIVES

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938  DIGITAL IMAGES ONLINE OF TYPED NARRATIVES.

FROM THE SITE: 2300 first person accounts of slavery and 500 black and white photographs of former slaves... The published volumes containing edited slave narratives are arranged alphabetically by the state in which the interviews took place and are there under by the SURNAME of the INFORMANT (i.e. the slave).... Federal field workers were given instructions on what kinds of questions to ask their informants and how to capture their dialects. The result of which may sometimes be offensive to today's readers...

COMMENTARY:  

Realize that the slaves interviewed were old people in their 80's and 90's. 

I've had ONE genealogy project in which I believed I'd found the FAMILY of the owner of a slave who gave a narrative.  The ex-slave's story was about being cruelly abused by a certain man who was likely one of this family's members in South Carolina. The North Carolina branch of this family had not owned slaves and my client said he'd been told by his father that they did not believe in slavery.

What a find if your ancestor is one of the 500 ex slaves whose photos appear.

For many Americans with Southern U.S. roots (though there were slaves in states not thought of as Southern) slave owners and/or slaves are part of their ancestry.  

I suggest you scan through this collection just to get a feel for it. The collection is NOT inclusive of every ex-slave, just a sampling of those still alive and willing to be interviewed. Try scanning for names in your family. Tie this in with whatever census information.  The place of interview is NOT always the place the person was enslaved.

The interviewing writers were told what questions to ask and did their best to record the stories as part of a Works Projects Administration job.  If you have reason to believe one of your family members worked on this assignment, the writer's names appear also.

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CHRONICLING AMERICA - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS's FREE HISTORICAL NEWSPAPER DATABASE

CHRONICLING AMERICA - NEWSPAPERS HISTORICAL 1789-1924

I ran a search for a name and was a little surprised to find a Pennsylvania Newspaper completely typeset in GERMAN.  Though I knew that at one time there was a vote about our National Language and German came in second to English, so many Germans were here by then that many publications and records used for genealogy are in German.

Depending on your library system, you may or may not have some newspaper databases available for free.  This one is, and is brought to us from the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

LOS ANGELES PUBLIC LIBRARY : HAS 10,000 TITLES FROM RESOURCES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY

Did you know that the Central Library genealogy collection has over 10,000 titles and "this exhaustive database is not duplicated in any other California library, and contains documents not even available through the Library of Congress!"