African Slavery in the Caribbean & South America
One of the most important things that have made me very successful in my research is reading history. Reading history provides me with clues of where to look next. While the genealogy community has taken a stronghold of dipping into DNA testing, it has opened the door to a lot of misconceptions. Note that this…
Santiago Margarida – 8 Years Old Facing Slavery
While digging through records for Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico in search of my own African ancestors, I came across a record at the end of the book that caught my attention. Another baptism, but a baptism of an African child. I had previously posted about discovering a record of a 10 years old girl from…
Slave Voyage Database & Slave Registers for British Colonies
A great source on researching your African ancestors is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Voyages website. The website contains over 36,000 Voyages of enslaved Africans. This website covers the entire globe so this will pertain to all islands and countries were Africans were forced into labor.Ancestry also has a great number of databases in their catalog. One…
African Holocaust and the Impacts to Our Ancestors
One thing I have noticed in my research in genealogy is the close of the nonexistence of research of African ancestry over the years. Today more are interested as their DNA is providing a visual into their past; African ancestry. People are now looking to find and understand and are faced with the ugliness that…
Video Tutorial: Looking at Digital Records on FamilySearch
If you have written to me and I have not responded, it is not that I am ignoring you. It simply means that I cannot keep up with the questions being asked. So knowing how frustrating it can be in researching your ancestry, I created a quick tutorial on how to view digitized records. Yes,…
Digitized Brazilian Slave Church Records
One of the struggles with those who descend from enslaved Africans in the USA is trying to connect the dots to determine where you came from. One pattern I have noticed in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America is that religion was the key controller of documentation. I am posting images for those who…