African American Genealogy Getting Past the 1870 Brick Wall

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  • čas přidán 29. 01. 2022
  • African American Genealogy: Getting Past the 1870 Brick Wall: This presentation includes several personal examples of my efforts to locate my ancestors in records prior to 1870. These records include a slave schedule, Freedman's Bank Records, a will, and the WPA Slave Narratives.
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Komentáře • 32

  • @Earlygrind
    @Earlygrind Před 2 lety +4

    Maaan this was great, the way she was breaking down the research, I gotta get on my family tree, both sides

  • @TalkLifeMedia
    @TalkLifeMedia Před 2 lety +2

    This is deep and informative

  • @cbennett3917
    @cbennett3917 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thanks 🙏🏾 you're a wealth of knowledge.

  • @cbennett3917
    @cbennett3917 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thanks!

    • @YKDATRUTH
      @YKDATRUTH  Před 6 měsíci

      Thanks for the superchat.

  • @cameronhunter8277
    @cameronhunter8277 Před 2 lety +4

    I’m also a descendant of the Cox family “Thomas Cox” of Alabama and his family were black American Indians. You insult your ancestors when you call them slaves. They owned the land up until the WWI and WWII era

    • @iamnvmbr2015
      @iamnvmbr2015 Před rokem +3

      Facts. The paper trail don’t lie. How can we just own land out of nowhere if we weren’t already here??? I smell more lies some damn where lol

    • @madameuati
      @madameuati Před rokem +1

      My husband is a descendant of the Cox family of Alabama .

    • @sidewayz1936
      @sidewayz1936 Před rokem

      Would that be Ben goss by any chance?

    • @kudjoeadkins-battle2502
      @kudjoeadkins-battle2502 Před rokem

      No blacks Indians in Alabama.

    • @advils12
      @advils12 Před 9 měsíci

      Agreed, they own African black slaves too

  • @tanelise4673
    @tanelise4673 Před 6 měsíci

    You had a lot of lucky finds. Great work!

  • @ave383
    @ave383 Před rokem

    Her family is from the same area as some of mine. Marion. I haven't found any Africans however i have foundal endless scottish and irish people who are black in those areas.

  • @blackfootchata86
    @blackfootchata86 Před rokem

    I've had no issue getting back to 1830 census. I've hit a brick wall there, any suggestions, advise would be greatly appreciated.

    • @ave383
      @ave383 Před rokem

      What have you found? Did any documents say they were Africans? What type of names did they have? You may have black Europeans in your family and if you do you have to look at the census in Scotland or wherever they came from to continue

    • @UnknownNev
      @UnknownNev Před rokem

      @@YKDATRUTH There were black/African people in pre-modern Europe during the Medieval and Tudor times.

  • @Iammyaboriginalsoul
    @Iammyaboriginalsoul Před 8 měsíci +1

    I do both ...but can't connect my grandmother to her parents on her obituary.

    • @Iammyaboriginalsoul
      @Iammyaboriginalsoul Před 8 měsíci

      Can use some assistance with getting her BIRTH certificate, without a BIRTH PLACE.

    • @Iammyaboriginalsoul
      @Iammyaboriginalsoul Před 8 měsíci

      Am doing our family GENEALOGY through her obituary, that all the source I have .

    • @YKDATRUTH
      @YKDATRUTH  Před 8 měsíci +1

      Where are you doing your genealogy? Which site?

  • @greenpill2586
    @greenpill2586 Před 2 lety +4

    If you finding African in any records at that time... it's false. I do geneology. Don't know what you're pushing but, Africans wasn't in America in mass. That's the harsh truth.

    • @greenpill2586
      @greenpill2586 Před rokem +4

      @@YKDATRUTH the gap in your teeth is a lie

    • @iamnvmbr2015
      @iamnvmbr2015 Před rokem +1

      @@greenpill2586 🤣🤣YK must haven’t done his genealogy or something. YK, u need the documents my guy. Documents ain’t gone lie. People will though. Again, remember what u said about most of the slave trade happening in 1800s when we know slavery ended in 1865. Why the fuck don’t we look like Africans sir???? That’s the real question. And I don’t need your words tbh. A nigga need documentation going foward. Sicka dis shit. I’m rocking with Dane cuz at least he telling people to go grab the actual documents which like I said, don’t lie.

    • @monsterinc3135
      @monsterinc3135 Před rokem

      ​@@greenpill2586 dude it ain't no lie search up slavery in America and you'll be surprised shii did you know the FIRST LEGAL SLAVE OWNER WAS BLACK

    • @ave383
      @ave383 Před rokem +1

      ​@Y.K Da Truth do a live stream and prove it wrong. I do genealogy. Most of you black people in America come from Europe. 😂 I've seen some Africans in the records. It was very late though. They came in the 1800s and there were very few. If a census record contained 50 people there were 4 African ls.

    • @bigbadwolf444
      @bigbadwolf444 Před 11 měsíci

      My family came in from Ireland and met the indians

  • @sentientbeings3885
    @sentientbeings3885 Před 2 lety

    Well I thought slavery never happened

    • @ave383
      @ave383 Před rokem

      Slavery the way they teach it in school never happened. A slave could go to court and sue their master. That's not the Slavery you know and love.
      You wanted to be dense and had no clue who they were enslaved to? Most people were enslaved by their parents. It's in the records

    • @ave383
      @ave383 Před rokem

      @@YKDATRUTH show and prove.