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Africana Heritage has received the DynasTree top 50 Genealogy Websites award for 2009.
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AfriQuest, the Free, Online Database for African American Genealogy, is Now Live!
WeRelate and the USF Africana Heritage Project announce the launch of AfriQuest (www.afriquest.com), a free, central Internet database for records of African and African American genealogy and history.
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Lowcountry Africana and South Carolina Department of Archives and History to Digitize SC Records
Lowcountry Africana and The South Carolina Department of Archives and History today announced plans to digitize and publish freely online more than 25,000 historic documents of interest to researchers of African American genealogy and history.
Under the new agreement, Colonial and Charleston, South Carolina estate inventories dated 1732-1867 will be digitized and indexed in detail, including the names of more than 30,000 slaves.
Inventories of estates in early South Carolina
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Featured Excerpt: Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family, by Anita Wills
Anita Wills' second book, Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family is a Non-Fiction Narrative of African American History. One of the ancestors chronicled in Pieces of the Quilt, is Great-Great Grandmother Leah Ruth-Warner, who was born in Guinea West Africa, in 1818.
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DNA to Africa: A Preview of Aaron L. Day's Upcoming Book
Aaron L. Day, author of five books and four award-winning articles, explains DNA testing and shares his personal experience of discovering his family's African roots.
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The Haiti I'm OK Board and Information Center at Lowcountry Africana
Our sister site Lowcountry Africana has created a Haiti I'm OK Board and Information Center, where you where you can search the Google Crisis Response service, view Haiti neighborhoods on Google Earth, read breaking news, find links to live updates from Haiti and follow links to other places to search and post. You can also post queries seeking relatives and loved ones in Haiti, or post the names of those known to be OK.
Please read the full text message.
AfriQuest, the Free, Online Database for African American Genealogy, is Now Live!
WeRelate and the USF Africana Heritage Project announce the launch of AfriQuest (www.afriquest.com), a free, central Internet database for records of African and African American genealogy and history.
Please read the full text message.
Lowcountry Africana and South Carolina Department of Archives and History to Digitize SC Records
Lowcountry Africana and The South Carolina Department of Archives and History today announced plans to digitize and publish freely online more than 25,000 historic documents of interest to researchers of African American genealogy and history.
Under the new agreement, Colonial and Charleston, South Carolina estate inventories dated 1732-1867 will be digitized and indexed in detail, including the names of more than 30,000 slaves.
Inventories of estates in early South Carolina
Please read the full text message.
Featured Excerpt: Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family, by Anita Wills
Anita Wills' second book, Pieces of the Quilt: The Mosaic of An African American Family is a Non-Fiction Narrative of African American History. One of the ancestors chronicled in Pieces of the Quilt, is Great-Great Grandmother Leah Ruth-Warner, who was born in Guinea West Africa, in 1818.
Please read the full text message.
DNA to Africa: A Preview of Aaron L. Day's Upcoming Book
Aaron L. Day, author of five books and four award-winning articles, explains DNA testing and shares his personal experience of discovering his family's African roots.
Please read the full text message.
The Haiti I'm OK Board and Information Center at Lowcountry Africana
Our sister site Lowcountry Africana has created a Haiti I'm OK Board and Information Center, where you where you can search the Google Crisis Response service, view Haiti neighborhoods on Google Earth, read breaking news, find links to live updates from Haiti and follow links to other places to search and post. You can also post queries seeking relatives and loved ones in Haiti, or post the names of those known to be OK.
Please read the full text message.
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