No need to apologize, if one person asked a question there's probably 10 or 20 that you may have helped. Pam ----- Original Message ----- From: <AMcLane101@aol.com> To: <ALBULLOC-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 7:58 AM Subject: Fwd: [ALBULLOCK] What Plantation..... > > --part1_e8.dfe91db.276b7d93_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > The message in reply to the question about "plantations" was intended for > "Angie", not necessarily the entire list... (messed up again! Sorry.) > > Annette > > --part1_e8.dfe91db.276b7d93_boundary > Content-Type: message/rfc822 > Content-Disposition: inline > > Return-Path: <ALBULLOC-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Received: from rly-xa01.mx.aol.com (rly-xa01.mail.aol.com [172.20.105.70]) by air-xa05.mail.aol.com (v77.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:42:13 -0500 > Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by rly-xa01.mx.aol.com (v77.27) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:41:50 1900 > Received: (from slist@localhost) > by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id eBFDf4504283; > Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:41:04 -0800 > Resent-Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 05:41:04 -0800 > X-Original-Sender: AMcLane101@aol.com Fri Dec 15 05:41:03 2000 > From: AMcLane101@aol.com > Message-ID: <c9.b654f59.276b798b@aol.com> > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 08:41:31 EST > Subject: Re: [ALBULLOCK] What Plantation..... > Old-To: AngieHere4U2@aol.com > Old-CC: ALBULLOC-L@rootsweb.com > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > X-Mailer: AOL for Macintosh sub 147 > Resent-Message-ID: <Q3ofMC.A.vCB.v9hO6@lists6.rootsweb.com> > To: ALBULLOC-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-From: ALBULLOC-L@rootsweb.com > X-Mailing-List: <ALBULLOC-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/460 > X-Loop: ALBULLOC-L@rootsweb.com > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: ALBULLOC-L-request@rootsweb.com > > Sounds like you are just getting started and are at about the same place we > all get to when we start to look for details on our slave ancestors. You > get to the early 1900's or late 1800's and the information becomes very > scant. But, you're now "hooked"! > > First of all, you'll need to start going beyond the census records and check > county court (probate) and land records for Bullock Co. And, you'll need to > expand your knowledge of the general history of the region. For example, > Bullock Co. was not Bullock Co. in the early 1800's. Bullock was formed much > later from Macon Co.; so, any existing records up to about 1850 might be > found in a nearby county, not in Bullock: Macon, Lee, Pike, Russell... > Check these court records, too. Look especially for wills of people (white > people) with the same surname. If you are lucky, your ancestors adoped the > name of a former slave owner whose property is found in a will or land > records. > > Another hint, don't look for the name of a "plantation". Not all land > owners/slave owners had vast tracks of land or estates that had a distinct > name. The vast majority of slave owners had only 2-6 slaves, who worked > smaller farms. The farm (or plantation) may have simply been referred to as > "the Jones Place". One good source for researching land ownership is the > Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Most of their listings are of land managed > by the government and release to buyers throughout the 1800's. These > records will show some of the original land grants; but, you will have to > check in county records to track subsequent sales of these land allottments. > BLM has a web site which most of us doing research use frequently. Check > for birth and death records, too. These may reveal what county your > ancestors originated from... (might not have been Bullock)... also, "Colored > Marriages". Sometimes these records bear more information than just the name > of the principals. > > Keep at it. I've been at this for only about three years and I'm still > learning! > > Annette > > > --part1_e8.dfe91db.276b7d93_boundary-- > >