Finding a place called home : a guide to African-American genealogy and historical identity / Dee Parmer Woodtor, Ph.D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodtor, Dee, author.

Contributor:

Random House (Firm), publisher.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

United States.

African Americans--Genealogy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans--Genealogy.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, [xii], 499, [1] pages : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 24 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, 1999.

Summary:

A guide to African American history and genealogy shares advice on tracing a family's African roots, explaining how to use the Internet, census reports, and other records to trace a family tree.

Contents:

Regaining Our Collective Memory, Reclaiming a lost family tradition

Beginning Your Genealogical Pursuit. Defining Family Traditions

Techniques and Tools

Your Ancestors on Record. The Importance of Documenting the Life Cycle

A Place Called Down Home. In Search of the Ancestral Home

Unraveling the Ties that Bound. 1970 to 1920

Finding Freedom's Generation. Your Ancestors during the Civil War, 1860-1865

Close to Kin, but Still Waiting for Forty Acres and a Mule. Searching for Your Ancestors During Reconstruction

A Long Way to Freedom. The Genealogy of your Slave Ancestors

The Last Slave and the Last Slave Owner

The Records of Slavery 00 Reconstructing Families and Kinship in the Slave Community

The Records Freedom Generated

The Last African and the First American

Conclusion. Family Reunions and Regaining a Collective Memory

Special Topic 1. Sources for Advanced Research in Slave Genealogy

Special Topic 2. African American Institutional Records

Special Topic 3. Caribbean Ancestry

Special Topic 4. American Indian Ancestry

Special Topic 5. World Wars I & II

Special Topic 6. What To Do with Your Research. Writing Family Memoirs or the Family Story and 101 Genealogy Research Projects Waiting to be Done

Special Topic 7. A Further Note on County Courthouse Records.

Notes:

"First Paperback Edition November 1999."

"Revised and expanded"-- front cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-487) and index.

Local Notes:

RBC Reference copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

037570843X :

9780375708435

037540595X

9780375405952

OCLC:

43704062

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