Episode 2: Show You the Way to Go
Using DNA, community, and slavery era research to resurrect a group of formerly enslaved people in Mississippi and Louisiana.
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Episode 1: Unearthing Easter
For years, my paternal grandfather’s family origins were a complete mystery. That’s until two phone calls changed everything I thought I knew.
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384 Formerly Enslaved of William Lovett Balfour (1802-1857) & Family
Sharing a decade’s worth of research into 384 of the formerly enslaved of the Balfour family of North Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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Genealogy for People of Color in Louisiana and Mississippi
Learn to trace your Louisiana and Mississippi roots in our latest BlackProGen hangout!
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When the “Nearest White Person” is Jefferson Davis
The Nervis family of East Carroll, Louisiana and Warren, Mississippi is an affiliated line of the Atlas family. Read about their connection to the former President of the Confederate States of America and the Exoduster movement.
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