Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Sassy Jane Genealogy
US and European Genealogy Research
Posts about resources for African American resources for genealogy research.
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 [...]
Visualizing 315 Years of the Atlantic Slave Trade 315 years. Millions of lives. 20,528 voyages in this infographic, documented from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. The infographic above was designed by Slate magazine's Andrew Kahn, to [...]
