GenWeekly, Vol. VII, No. 7
It's Genealogy. It's Weekly. It's GenWeekly.
February 12, 2010
Elisabeth Lindsay, Editor
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This Week's Articles
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by Rita Marshall. Only ten questions? What might that mean to researchers of the future?
by Larry Naukam. A good review of the limitations as well as the benefits of the world's largest bibliographic reference.
Recent News
- Many records shed light on African-American genealogy. Benefits of the 1870 U. S. census and encouragement for pre-1870 records.
- Resource includes Holocaust documents. Highlighting the release of recent archive documents on Footnote.com
- Time to revisit the SSDI? A good review of this frequently updated resource.
The Genealogy Guide
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The Slave Narratives Project, currently titled "Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1938," is comprised of some 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. The collection is housed at the United States, Library of Congress, and made available online through the Library's "American Memory" collection.
In the years of the Great Depression between 1936 and 1938, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent writers in seventeen states to interview ordinary people and write down their life stories, among them African-Americans once held as slaves. Whether or not one's ancestors were interviewed, the slave narratives provide a compelling account of what it meant to be a slave. In 2003 and HBO documentary, Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives, was presented featuring several well-known personalities.
Archive Articles
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