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Locality Guides – April 28th – 6:30pm
Your Personal Tour: Creating a Locality Guide
April 28 @ 6:30 pm CT
Lisa Medina will be in-person, presenting
Your Personal Tour: Creating a Locality Guide. Yarborough Branch Austin Library and hybrid.Register -
Summer Camp
Join SCC members on a summer adventure.
May – August
3rd Tuesday at 7pm
Once a month participants will examine an article, design a short locality guide, create a
research log and author a very short proof.Participants who will be given certificates of completion and an APG water bottle ($35)
Schedule
April 21st – Introduction to article and camp
April 28th – Locality Guide Webinar
May 19th – Create a Locality Guide based on Piedmont Region of North Carolina
June 16th – Research question and Log
July 21st – Proof Sketch
August 18th – Proof Summary
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How to Apply to a Lineage Society: A Step-by-Step Guide for Genealogists
Lineage societies honor our ancestors by preserving their stories and contributions. For genealogists, membership can be a rewarding way to share research, preserve records, and connect with others who value family history. While the…
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Lineage Societies: Preserving Heritage and Building Connections
For genealogists, researching family history is more than a personal journey—it can also be a way to connect with communities that honor shared heritage. Lineage societies are organizations that require proof of descent from…
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Indentured Servitude in the 17th-Century Americas: A Forgotten Chapter in Family History
When we think of early labor systems in the Americas, slavery usually takes center stage. But in the 17th century, another system played a huge role in building colonial society: indentured servitude. For genealogists…
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The Second Middle Passage: Genealogy and the Forced Migration Within America
When many people think of the slave trade, they picture ships crossing the Atlantic—the Middle Passage that carried millions of Africans to the Americas. But after the U.S. banned the international importation of enslaved…
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Ship Manifests and the Lives of the Enslaved
When we think of ship manifests, we often picture tidy lists of passengers and goods crossing the Atlantic. But for millions of Africans forcibly transported during the slave trade, these documents tell a very…
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Domestic Slave Trade Manifests
When the United States banned the importation of enslaved Africans in 1808, demand for enslaved labor did not stop—it shifted. The domestic slave trade flourished, with tens of thousands of enslaved people forced from…
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Slaves in Ship Manifests
Ship manifests are invaluable tools for genealogists, but they are also sobering records of one of humanity’s darkest chapters—the transatlantic slave trade. From the 16th through the 19th centuries, millions of enslaved Africans were…
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Crossing the Seas: 18th-Century Ship Manifests in Genealogical Research
By the 18th century, transatlantic migration was no longer a trickle—it was a tide. Colonists, merchants, indentured servants, and enslaved Africans crossed oceans in growing numbers. For genealogists, ship manifests from the 1700s are…
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Genealogy and Ship Manifest Records
For millions of families, the story of immigration is central to their heritage. Whether arriving in Boston, New York, Galveston, or San Francisco, immigrants in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries often appear…
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