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Baker Johnson and the Johnson Brothers were the owners of an Iron Works Plantation called The Catoctin Furnace. Before Baker Johnson died in 1811, he wrote a will allocating this slaves to his family. Out of the 70+ slaves one was named Sook and another was named Betty. Delbra’s Sook of Jefferson Georgia had a […]
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Crystal Emory Claggett discovered a few years ago that her great grandfather was mulatto and that new discovery has opened up a connection to many cousins she never knew. We explore in this session just how we are related to Crystal and how to use Gedmatch and DNA Painter to help us Break Through Those
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LWHBMF is a documentary based on the published work titled We Are Family – Anderson’/Whigham’s of Bullock, Barbour and now Choctaw and Wilcox County Alabama. After 30+ years of conducting research about her family’s history using her grandmother’s stories and recollections, Delbra Brown a descendant, writer, producer and director not only published her book but
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Is this session with the Descendants of Catoctin Furnace Group, I share how to successfully use DNA, Gedmatch and DNA Painter to how you are related to your known cousins.
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If you perform a search for the DNA surname match Siler, do you find results you are not familiar with? In this session, I explain how the enslaver Siler purchased, sold, and gifted his family slaves and over time acquired up to 259 slaves when he died. Surnames mentioned in this session are: Barron (FG43)
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In order to successfully conduct research on your enslaved ancestors, there are vital and key steps you must take. DNA might help you figure out how you’re related to someone, but there is a great deal of work you must do to find that connection. In this session, I share with the Friends of the
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As a dedicated genealogy researcher, my commitment lies in uncovering the stories of my ancestors who were tragically separated, gifted, and sold during the era of slavery. In this video presentation, I aim to share valuable insights and methodologies that I employ to navigate the complexities of DNA matches, particularly when confronted with unfamiliar surnames
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In this session, using DNA, Ancestry and Gedmatch, we reviewed the pedigree chart of A Leslie out of Barbour, County Alabama to discover how the Wootens, Hootens, Leslies, Warlicks, Woods, and Harpers are related.
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Did you know that most of us who have ties to Alabama have ancestor connections to South Carolina and the West Indies like Jamaica? This is a session for the Williamsburg, SC group to show how we must expand our research beyond the boundaries of our immediate locale interests. For me, it started when I
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