Posts about resources for African American resources for genealogy research.
The members of the Kellytown Junior Genealogy Club are 8-12 years old. They meet every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon with their leader, Karen, who wrote to me about the club. Becoming History Detectives In [...]
Digitization grants for 2020 were recently announced by the National Archives and Records Administration. Digitization Grants of Interest to Genealogists Unified Court Systems of New York State to support digitizing and making available freely [...]
The Visualizing Emancipation project maps the end of slavery during the Civil War. This project comes from the University of Richmond’s Digital Scholarship Lab. Historians and archivists there combined maps and data, with funding [...]
The Library of Congress has released 25,000 free 19th-century portrait photographs for research. Digitized from glass plate negatives, the collection of 19-century portrait photographs were made by Washington D.C. photographer C.M. Bell. Bell and his [...]
