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Title: Genealogists Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors: How to Find and Record Your Unique Heritage (Geneologist Guide to Discovering Your African American Ancestors, 1st Ed) by Emily Anne Croom, Franklin Carter Smith ISBN: 1-55870-605-4 Publisher: Betterway Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: First-rate entry in a very good series . . .
Comment: The volumes in Betterway's "Genealogist's Guide" series have been genrally excellent in leading researchers through the special problems, situations, and resources connected with non-Anglo-European-male ancestors. Anyone, even an otherwise experienced family historian, who has attempted to develop a black lineage more than three or four generations back in the United States knows the historical and social problems involved often are considerable - but they aren't insurmountable, as the authors show. Smith, a Houston librarian with legal training, learned early of the reluctance of his elderly relatives to discuss the "slave days" and of the tendency of black genealogists to end their quest with the 1870 census. He begins with the basics, the stuff we all learned (or should have) in the first year of research, but slants it toward the necessities of African-American history, including the need to deal with frequent name-changes, "consulting the elders," and evaluating family stories (both of which are especially important here). Likewise, in reading the federal census schedules, one must understand what was meant, both officially and locally, by "colored" and "mulatto," the definitions of which changed over time. Military service records, an important resource in most white pedigrees, are more problematic for black lineages before World War II. Church records are proportionately more important. Smith gives considerable space to the use of white (i.e., slaveholding) family records in tracing black families, and to the proper use of the federal census slave schedules -- subjects few of us have much experience with. Finally, he relates all this through three extended cases drawn from his own family research which exemplify the techniques and adjusted mind-sets he explained earlier. They're well written, carefully worked out, and inspirational as well as informative, and are worth the price of admission by themselves.
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Title: How to Trace Your African-American Roots: Discovering Your Unique History by Barbara Thompson Howell ISBN: 0806520558 Publisher: Citadel Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Black Roots: A Beginners Guide to Tracing the African American Family Tree by Tony Burroughs ISBN: 0684847043 Publisher: Fireside Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Listening For Our Past : A Lay Guide To African American Oral History Interviewing by Hasker Nelson, Hasker Nelson ISBN: 0964732106 Publisher: Heritage Research Creations Pub. Date: 28 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity by Dee Woodtor, Dee Parmer Woodtor Ph.D. ISBN: 037570843X Publisher: Random House (P) Pub. Date: 01 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: The Unpuzzling Your Past Workbook: Essential Forms and Letters for All Genealogists (4th Ed) by Emily Anne Croom ISBN: 155870423X Publisher: Betterway Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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