African Ancestored Genealogy

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Comment by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on July 23, 2010 at 12:37pm

"Ahoy, George!" I think I gave extensive details many months ago in this group forum? I tried "Bellinger" with the masthead "Search" button; but it covered not just this forum, but the whole of Family Link-plus. Even if I found it, I would not know how to "pull-up" that past posting into a current one for you. Perhaps Ms. Roundree knows how? Alternatively, going back to Bellinger, you may espie other postings too, that interest you. For example, via my late friend Harkless Wooten, I knew the family of then Coast Guardsman Alex Haley's first wife, at Beaufort/Morehead City, N.C. I'm interested to all early South Carolina origin Bellingers, black and/or white. Jim

Comment by Alane Roundtree on July 23, 2010 at 9:25am

Hi George,

I love your take on the BIG PICTURE.

I have been a Legacy devotee since 2000. While I have “test driven” other perhaps more “popular programs” Legacy has been the only software I’ve used to compile my research of the Silver Bluff Slave Community of South Carolina and their descendants.

Aesthetically the software design is easy on the eyes and is friendly to this user but more importantly, at the time I chose Legacy to begin digitally transcribing my research, I was looking for a program that emphasized and provided simple yet thorough documentation of the myriad of sources, evidence, and narrative which defines the work of the family historian. In my opinion, the sourcing capabilities of the software should be the very first thing that draws a genealogist or family historian to a program and Legacy fit my standards.

No program is perfect, but compared to other programs I’ve looked at for my research, my wish list for Legacy is relatively short. I’m still waiting for the “pie-in-the-sky” dream program that caters to the all-inclusive research of this African Ancestored family historian, but until that day arrives I’ll continue to use Legacy and my word processor.

Good Luck finding your program Jason!

Peace,
Alane

Comment by George Geder on July 22, 2010 at 11:26pm

[Here's a response to an inquiry sent by one of our recent members that I thought would be a good candidate for further discussion. Thanks]

Hi Jason,

I'm researching my HANCOCKs in Aiken & Barnwell counties.

I've tried many genealogy software programs; and decided to stick with Legacy 7.4. That answers your question.

The major genealogy software programs can do similar things. It comes down to style, preference, and the amount of customization one wants to do with respect double/triple relationships, adoptees, blended families, gays, and other non-traditional family situations.

Some programs claim to accommodate but are visually ugly; others are pretty, but...; Some make you jump through the 'customization hoop' reminiscent of a circus bear juggling saucers while on roller skates. Personally, I don't want to work that hard to represent my whole family in a genealogy software program.

THE BIG PICTURE

Some will tell you that GENEALOGY primarily deals with bloodlines and how far back you can go with the strictest of adherence. Cool.

Family Historians want to include everybody, blood or non-blood, in the telling of the story. These are brave people. They want to get to the truth and essence of a person, family, community, and ultimately a culture. Their charge is 'IDENTITY' and 'WHAT HAPPENED? None of the genealogy software companies have got to this point. I'm in this group.

Experiment, then choose one.

Peace,
"Guided by the Ancestors"

Comment by George Geder on July 22, 2010 at 9:58pm

Hello James Alfred Locke Miller Jr.,

Please tell us more!
Recall and tell the name of the earlier book.

Peace,
"Guided by the Ancestors"

Comment by James Alfred Locke Miller Jr. on July 21, 2010 at 11:24pm

The new South Carolina slave narrative book: I do not know if the white Mrs. Bellinger is in it; but she is in an earlier book of circa the Depression. This is from a poor memory; at the end of the Civil War; one by one, or a few at a time, she called her now freed slaves in, said times were changed and they'd need their birth certificates (which most could not read); and she copied their birth dates and parentage from the plantation book. I think the ex-slave teller of the story had removed to Florida? Most of my white ancestors, where there is a record, did not treat their slaves "bad" (really bad was hell on earth), but little good is recorded too. Mrs. Bellinger seemed to be a decent woman in a bad institution, serving those who had served her.

Comment by Willette Bryant on July 21, 2010 at 4:47pm

Hi everyone,
Someone told me about a marriage between a P.P. Wilkinson and a Edream Lamar on familysearch, I was wondering if someone else could look and see if the last name a misspell or could this be my grandmother Edream Lomax, it has 1896 as aprox. b. year.

Thanks
Willette

Comment by Alane Roundtree on June 12, 2010 at 10:24am

Link to article:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijneQuOSPKFWdnTgm...

Comment by Alane Roundtree on June 12, 2010 at 10:22am

Rare photo of slave children found in NC attic
By Nicole Norfleet (AP)

An undated rare photo provided by Keya Morgan, found in a North Carolina attic, depicts two slave children, art historians say. In April, the photo was found at a moving sale in Charlotte, accompanied by a document detailing the sale of John for $1,150 in 1854.

Comment by George Geder on May 30, 2010 at 1:21pm

I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives
by Susanna Ashton
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press (May 30, 2010)
ISBN-10: 1570039003

Amazon.com's Editorial Reviews/Product Description

Out of the hundreds of published slave narratives, only a handful exist specific to South Carolina, and most of these are not readily available to modern readers. This collection restores to print seven slave narratives documenting the lived realities of slavery as it existed across the Palmetto State's upcountry, midlands, and lowcountry, from plantation culture to urban servitude.

First published between the late eighteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth, these richly detailed firsthand accounts present a representative cross section of slave experiences, from religious awakenings and artisan apprenticeships to sexual exploitations and harrowing escapes. In their distinctive individual voices, narrators celebrate and mourn the lives of fellow slaves, contemplate the meaning of freedom, and share insights into the social patterns and cultural controls exercised during a turbulent period in American history.

Each narrative is preceded by an introduction to place its content and publication history in historical context. The volume also features an afterword surveying other significant slave narratives and related historical documents on South Carolina. I Belong to South Carolina reinserts a chorus of powerful voices of the dispossessed into South Carolina's public history, reminding us of the cruelties of the past and the need for vigilant guardianship of liberty in the present and future.

I Belong to South Carolina is edited and introduced by Susanna Ashton with the assistance of Robyn E. Adams, Maximilien Blanton, Laura V. Bridges, E. Langston Culler, Cooper Leigh Hill, Deanna L. Panetta, and Kelly E. Riddle.

From the Inside Flap:

Rare firsthand accounts of slavery from across the Palmetto State collected together for the first time.

About the Author:

Susanna Ashton is an associate professor and associate chair in the Department of English at Clemson University. She is the author of Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920 and coeditor of These "Colored" United States: African American Essays from the 1920s.
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Peace,
"Guided by the Ancestors"

Comment by Quan Pruitt on May 9, 2010 at 11:22am

Would like to know if anyone has used the Slavevoyages site? I would love to use it but it seems that without the captains name or the original african name I am at a lost.

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