Genealogy Trenches

15/04/2024

I have done a lot of researching and I don't think I have ever seen someone's color or race listed as 'yellow' before.

Black, negro, white, mulatto......yes, but never yellow!

Has anyone ever come across this or any other uncommon term?

28/03/2024

The baby boy’s birth on Tuesday marks three generations of men with the same name and the same birthday.

02/03/2024

Baltimore’s historically Black newspaper chain is sorting through its archives. Treasures are surfacing.

A team of archivists is going through the AFRO American newspaper chain’s vast collection of records and artifacts.

13/12/2023

https://fb.watch/oVm1F1cj54/

07/12/2023

1887 photograph of Harriet Tubman, her husband Nelson Davis and adopted daughter Gertie.

19/06/2023

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CNN's Victor Blackwell visits the new International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, where he traces his own family tree with resources...

06/04/2023

02/03/2023

Join genealogist Nicka Sewell-Smith from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 16, at the Cherokee Nation Anna Mitchell Cultural & Welcome Center and on Saturday, March 18, at the Cherokee National History Museum for the Cherokee Freedmen History Presentation. She will dive in-depth into a wide range of Cherokee Freedmen history and ancestral research. Attendees will hear the true stories of the First Kansas Colored Infantry and well-known Cherokee Freedmen, Isaac Rogers, as well as learn about African American genealogy in Oklahoma and how to research your ancestry. Don’t miss this chance to learn more about Cherokee Freedmen and their importance to the Cherokee Story.

For more information, go to VisitCherokeeNation.com/Events.

02/02/2023

We are Back!!!!!!

Episode 18 we talk to my good brother Kelly as he introduces us to his 6th great grandfather. What an incredible journey!!!!!! Check it out!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/genealogy-trenches/id1657966220?i=1000597648621

https://anchor.fm/genealogytrenches/episodes/I-got-Loyalty--got-royalty-inside-my-DNA-e1ubdhj

In this episode of Genealogy Trenches, we dive into the incredible story of Kelly's 5th great-grandfather, Abdul Rahman (Abd-Al Rahman; Ibrahima abd-Al Rahman). As a trilingual military general and heir to a West African nation, Abdul Rahman was captured and sold into slavery, spending 40 years on a...

13/01/2023