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FREE Rootz Tools & Resources:

A1 - Why Roots?

A Girl Like Me Video  &  Clarke Doll Test II

Problem With YOUR Nature

Who Are You?

Teach Roots Early

 

A2 - Autobiography

The Meaning of Your First Name & Last Name

Baby Names

How Old Are You Really?

What Happened On The Day I was Born?

 

A3 - Elders

Variant Spelling of Family Names (thesaurus)

PeopleFinders (search for living relatives, parents, kids)

SSDI (transitioned relatives; social security death index: use 'advanced search' tab to save time)

Boston Public Library (Heritage Quest no longer available...go to Brookline Public Library: register your bpl card there to use remote; otherwise go to ancestry.com inside any BPL branch- write to the BPL to complaint against their chosen cutbacks)

Footnote.com as an alternate source of many records.

Family Search (advanced)

US Gen Web

 

A4 - Sasha & Zamani

MA State Archives

Family Name Timeline (scroll to bottom for 'TIMELINE')

State Census Records

Slavery Records Library

Civil War Soldier & Sailor System

 

A5 - Africa I Belong

African Ancestry

Genome Project

Face Morpher

 

A6 - Bearing Tradition: Sharing the Lessons:

Brother Blue - Master Griot

National Assoc. of Black Storytellers

Dead Fred

 

Other Rootz Tools & Resources:

Abbrev Rootz Wkbk

Family Tree Chart (pedigree) of 6 generations (jpg).

Ankobia6Tools.xls  (Excel Spreadsheet includes: contacts, home artifacts log, pedigree, family group sheets, research tracker, surname list)

A6 Roadmap.jpg

Federal Census Picture.xls Key facts on U.S. Federal Census.

UScountiesMap.jpg All U.S. counties on one map.

BlackBeltUScountiesMap.jpg

Surnameslist.xls  Keep a handle on all of the branches of your family tree.

DescendantReport.doc  (Word Document) An intelligent family research plan.

Free Family Tree (windows programs):

RootsMagic Essentials (click on "Free Download") or

Legacy Family Tree 7.0

Family Forest

Additional downloads to start documenting your Family Rootz

 

Organizations:

Afro-American Hist. & Genealogical Soc. New England Chapter

Boston Public Library

Center For African-American Genealogical Research

100 tools to get you started building a family tree (type ctrl + F and search by keywords: 'African' or 'Latino' for example).

LestWeForgetMuseumofSlavery

Ankobia6 Flyer (print and distribute freely)

     

AfriGeneas - www.afrigeneas.com/
Site devoted to African American genealogy. Features mail lists, message boards, and daily and weekly genealogy chats.

 

Cyndi's List - African-American -www.cyndislist.com/african.htm
Links to archives, families, libraries, mailing lists, museums, records, researchers, societies and general resource sites.

 

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society -www.aahgs.org/
Dedicated to the encouragement of scholarly studies in both academic, local, and family history of all ethnic groups with particular focus on African Americans.

 

Freedmens Bureau Online -www.freedmensbureau.com/
Online transcriptions of the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands (Freedmens Bureau).

 

African American Cemeteries Online

www.prairiebluff.com/aacemetery/
A database of Black cemeteries.

 

Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, and Delaware - www.freeafricanamericans.com
Family history of most families who were free in this region during the colonial period. Includes extracts from government records.

 

Family Tree Maker: African-American Research 

www.genealogy.com/00000360.html
A listing of websites and contact information for genealogical research.

 

Ancestry.com: African American Research 

www.ancestry.com/library/view/ancmag/2052.asp
Tips and resources on how to research African American ancestry.

 

Ancestry.com: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom 

www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/3318.asp
Article by David Thackery on African-American genealogical research.

 

African American Genealogy -afrogenealogy.8m.com
African American genealogy links and information.

 

Major

AfriGeneas

African-Native Genealogy Webpage

African American Military History

African American Cemeteries Online

African American Census Schedules Online

The USGenWeb Project

CWSS Project: United States Colored Troops

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)

Census Online

The Freedmen's Bureau Online

FAQs soc.genealogy.african

 

General

Ancestry.com

Family Search

Everton's Genealogical Helper

LDS Church Family History Resources

Genealogy Online

Genealogy.com

RootsWeb.com

Treasure Maps

Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research Library

Lineages, Inc.

Ancestors - PBS series companion site

African American Lives - PBS series companion site
 

Software Maker Sites:

Family Tree Maker Online

Ultimate Family Tree

Family Origins

Generations Family Tree

Reunion (Mac software)

Progeny Software

Ancestral Quest
 

Vital Records:

Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

Death Records: Online Searchable Death Indexes & Databases
 

Surname Lists:

GENDEX--WWW Genealogical Index

Internet Family Finder

Roots Surname List (RSL)

US Name Distributions

 

DNA

African Ancestry

African DNA

Ancestry DNA

Family Tree DNA

 

Free Negros

Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia

Free Black Registry of Augusta County and Staunton City, Virginia

Creoles of Color in 19th Century New Orleans

 

Slavery

AfriGeneas Slave Data Collection

Slave Movement During the 18th and 19th Centuries

Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library

American Slave Narratives

Excerpts from Slave Narratives

North American Slave Narratives

Ex-slave Narratives

Freedmen and Southern Society Project

Alabama State Archives - Slavery

Middle Passages - Slave Ship Database

Been Here So Long: Selections from WPA Slave Narratives

Ohio Ex-Slave Narratives, 1937-1938

Illinois Database of Servitude and Emancipation Records (1722-1863)

The Slave Revolt On Board the American Brig Creole

Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial Newspapers

Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870

Birth In The African Tradition

MS Forks of the Road

Appraisement & Inventory of Slaves in Wills - Macon County, AL

Heritage of Slavery in South Africa - Slavery at the Cape

Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820

Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy  

Slavery and the Underground Railroad in Maryland

Son of the South, "Slave Heritage Resource Center" 

Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database 

 

Military

African American Military History

African American Warriors

Black Women In The Military
 

Revolutionary War:

Colored Patriots of the American Revolution
 

Civil War:

Freedom Fighters - United States Colored Troops in the Civil War

Organization of United States Colored Troops By State

United States Sailors and Soldiers

U.S. Colored Troops formed in North Carolina

African American Civil War Memorial

The Resting Places of US Colored Troops

Black Civil War Soldiers of the Trans Mississippi West

Vermont African Americans in the Civil War

Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service

7th Regiment Colored Infantry

54th Massachusetts Infantry

55th Regiment Colored Infantry

106th Regiment Colored Infantry

111th Regiment Colored Infantry

Descriptive Recruitment Lists of Volunteers for the U.S. Colored Troops for the State of Missouri, 1863-1865
 

Buffalo Soldiers:

The Buffalo Soldiers of the Western Frontier
 

WWI:

The American Negro in the World War
 

WWII:

366th Infantry Regiment (WWII)

The Men of Montford Point: The First Black Marines

African Americans during WWII

African Americans in WWII
 

Korean Conflict:

African Americans in the Korean War
 

Vietnam War:

 

Black History

The Carter G. Woodson Institute

African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress)

African-American Odyssey (Library of Congress)

African-American Perspectives (Library of Congress)

WPA American Life Histories (Library of Congress)

Historical Text Archive: African American History

Afro-American History

African-American Women: A Research Guide

AFRO-American Almanac

Africans in America

The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

African American Family History Research - Missouri

Black Archives of Mid-America

19th Century African American Newspapers

African American Women - Online Archival Exhibits

Mississippi Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography

Lynchings: The National List

John & Sarah: A Family's Journey To Freedom

The Black Experience in America

Institute for African American Studies, University of Georgia

African American Inventor Series: Slave Laws

The African World Online Holocaust Museum

National Visionary Leadership Project
 

Images:

bconx.blogspot.com

Images of African Americans from the 19th Century

Photographs from the Alabama Negro Extension Service

African American Images from Syracuse, New York

Jackson Davis Collection of African American Educational Photographs

Jim Crow Museum Website

 

Black-Native History

Native American Genealogy

Siler Roll: 1851 Census of Cherokees east of the Mississippi

Black Indians/Black West

American Indian Resources

The Creek Nation

Among the Creeks

Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory March 4, 1907(scroll down and follow instructions to search NAIL)

The Choctaw Nation

Black Indians and Intertribal Native Americans Association

African - Native Americans: We are still here

Freedom Fighters (Black Seminoles)

Cherokee-Blackfoot

African-Native Americans: We are still here: A Photo Exhibit

Black Seminoles in Texas and Mexico

 

Mixed Race genealogy

Strat43z's Tri-Racial Genealogy Page

American Cross Race Genealogy Research Website

Melungeon Research Page

 

Race and Ethnicity

Battles in Red, Black and White: Virginia's Racial Integrity Law of 1924

The Plecker Letters

Interracial Voice

The Jackson Whites

"White",''Mixed" or "Other"?

The Blurred Racial Lines of Famous Families

The Myth of the Black Irish

Delaware's Invisible Indians

Mitsawoket

The Tragedy of the Mulatto

The Multiracial Activist

 

Black Genealogy

African-American Cultural & Genealogical Society

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society

AAHGS - Prince Georges County, MD

African American Genealogical Society of Northern California

African American Genealogy Group

African American Genealogy Group of the Miami Valley (OH)

African American Genealogy Society of Sacramento, CA

African Atlantic Genealogical Society 

Black Family Genealogy & History Society (AZ) 

Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society (MI)

Black Belt African American Genealogical and Historical Society (AL)

Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum

 

Black Church

African Methodist Episcopal Churches on the Internet

African-American Churches in Tucson

African American Churches on the Internet

Links to AME Churches on the Web

National Baptist Convention, USA

Church of God in Christ

CME Church

 

Museums

ALABAMA

State Black Archives Research Center and Museum (Normal)

CALIFORNIA

African American Museum & Library at Oakland 

California African American Museum (Los Angeles)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Anacostia Community Museum 

National Museum of African American History and Culture 

FLORIDA

Carter G. Woodson African American Museum (St. Petersburg)

Riley House Museum (Tallahasee)

Wells' Built Museum (Orlando)

GEORGIA

APEX Museum (Atlanta)

Jack Hadley Black History Museum (Thomasville)

Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History (Augusta)

Tubman African American Museum (Macon)

IDAHO

Idaho Black History Museum (Boise)

ILLINOIS

DuSable Museum of African American History (Chicago)

INDIANA

African / African-American Historical Museum (Fort Wayne)

IOWA

African American Historical Museum and Cultural Center of Iowa (Cedar Rapids)

KANSAS

Kansas African American Museum (Wichita)

LOUISIANA

Arna Bontemps African American Museum (Alexandria)

River Road African American Museum (Donaldsonville)

MARYLAND

Banneker-Douglass Museum (Annapolis)

Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture (Baltimore)

MASSACHUSETTS

Museum of African American History (Boston)

MICHIGAN

Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History (Detroit)

NEW JERSEY

African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey (Newtonville)

NEW YORK

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York City)

NORTH CAROLINA

Afro-American Cultural Center (Charlotte)

OHIO

African American Museum (Cleveland)

National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center (Wilberforce)

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (Cincinnati)

PENNSYLVANIA

African American Museum in Philadelphia (Philadelphia)

Central Pennsylvania African American Museum (Reading)

Civil War & Underground Railroad Museum of Philadelphia

SOUTH CAROLINA

Avery Research Center for African-American History & Culture (Charleston)

Penn Center, York W. Bailey Museum (St. Helena Island)

Slave Relics Historical Museum (Walterboro)

TENNESSEE

Chattanooga African American Museum 

TEXAS

African American Museum (Dallas)

Buffalo Soldiers National Museum (Houston)

National Cowboys of Color Museum (Ft. Worth)

VIRGINIA

Alexandria Black History Museum 

Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia (Richmond)

Hampton University Museum & Archives (Hampton)

WASHINGTON

Northwest African American Museum (Seattle)

WISCONSIN

Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum (Milwaukee)

 

Mail list and message boards

The African-Native Genealogy Message Board

Black Indian Culture Forum

Genealogy Resources On the Internet: Uncategorized Mailing Lists

 

Webrings Other Links

AfriGeneas List of Links

Cyndi's List: African American

African American Genealogy Webring

United States Colored Troops Ring

Afro American Web Ring

Genealogy Resources on the Internet: African American

Academic Info: African American History

African American History

Social Studies School Service: Genealogy: Ethnic Research

Top Genealogy Sites

BLACK Quest Power Resource Links

African American Historical and Genealogical Resources

Digital Librarian: African-Americans

The American Colonist's Library: Primary Source Documents

African American History

Black Genealogy Exchange

 

“Do not be mistaken, the object of the man is not to make a carpenter, but the object of a carpenter is to make a man” -W.E.B. Du Bois

     
         
 

Ankobia6 - Rootz Workshop
"Ankobia" in Twi means: those who lead the way in commitment and courage.  Ankobia6 is an multiple session Rootz research and presentation (story-telling) project for small groups of community residents.  The Team moves through six phases of global genealogy & history for beginners (A6):

  A1. Why Roots? Getting started.

  A2. Autobiography

  A3. Elders

  A4. Sasha & Zamani (those ancestors in

         living memory and those ancestors

         beyond living memory)

  A5. Africa I Belong

  A6. Bearing Tradition (Sharing Ankobia

         Stories)

A6 Objective
We are all aware of the toll that lack of self-knowledge and self-respect and mis-education can take on our community.  The Ankobia6 program was designed to tackle the problem head-on. Team members are helped by a group leader, sponsors and genealogy/archive specialists.  Our youth and adults are offered an opportunity to:

1. build intelligent family research plans

2.  generate findings that carry tradition forward in our community

3. receive training in basic genealogy research, spreadsheet management, internet navigation and other skills needed to re-construct our own personal family history and align it to the wider global story. 

1on1 Family Research Plans
Roots Assessment: ReIdren can assess your current research progress and provide a process map for your next steps.

Roots Research: ReIdren can research your family history in blocks of time ranging from 2 to 20 hours, providing a final report and supporting documentation.  (Complete the information at the top right side of this page).

Rootz Help to Run Projects

Mentor/Sponsor Training Course: ReIdren can help your neighborhood or community organization design and run its own creative global genealogy program, in a 3 hour session.

An effective global genealogy program will have a team of researchers, led by a mentor and a sponsor who guide and support the team as it accomplishes fixed milestones towards a 'descendants day' event.   The workgroup will also solicit the help of genealogy & history specialists, including local senior citizens groups, specialists at local, state & national libraries, archives & repositories, as well as resources available on the internet.

We offer a fun, rich instruction that covers how to use the Ankobia6 workbook, roadmap, & materials to guide your team of researchers through regular meetings, deliverables & tasks.  You will be prepared to run a program from start to finish: from managing costs to communicating with local genealogy/historical specialists.  It is a well paced 3 hour course, that can be held in-site at your organization or at your local community center or library.  The course materials include additional information inserts and a CD with spreadsheet tools and internet links.

 

To enhance project quality for their team-members, the mentor or sponsor can make separate purchases of a number of useful supplies, including: calling cards, USB  storage key drives, recording devices,  African ancestry DNA test kits, envelopes & stamps as well as other writing & folder supplies.

 

Rootz: Just Do It

Parents, Elders & Leaders: Your help is needed.  Ankobia6 is just one of many ways to start a genealogy and history program for black youth in your neighborhood, your community.  Please take this opportunity or make opportunities for black folks to know and think better of themselves.  Don't believe rootz is needed urgently?  Play this video:

Where to start?  To schedule a training session, order a workbook, or find out more, call us at 857 939-1461 or email info@reidren.com.

 

Ancestors In the Attac
A new community TV program that shows Black folks useful ways to build our family trees, share powerful stories and use lessons of the ancestors to face our shared problems today.  Click to view past shows or to participate. 

Latest Rootz NEWS (updated every 8hrs)

 

 

 

 

Ancestors in the Attac is a new family tree tv program that aims to show Black folks useful ways to build their family tree, share powerful family stories and use the lessons of the ancestors to face our shared problems today.  Our premiere at BNN studios in Roxbury 2035 Wash. st..

 

 

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We are looking for folks to participate before in four ways:

1.   Guest appearance in the studio.  We will walk brothers & sisters through the steps necessary to build their family tree with a strong emphasis on using the computer.  If you want to be on live television and have the courage to look for and share your family history, this is your chance.

2.   Call in to the studio live on the air.  If you have any questions about your personal family history or black history, call in to the studio during the live program (the show is usually the last thursday of the month at 8pm). 

3.   Email questions for reading live on the air.  Email your question ahead of time to ancestors@reidren.com and it will be read on the air and responded to fully.

4.   Pre-made interviews/clips.  We are looking to have pre-made interview breaks during the live show so if you would like to be interviewed as someone who knows alot about making your family tree and want to share something about it with the community, or if you are someone who would like to say that they don’t know alot about family tree making but believe it is something important to our community, we would like to record you.

 

If you are interested in participating (whether as a live or taped guest, or by call-in/email in), please contact Joel at 857 939-1461.   

 

   
             

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