This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/JU.2ADI/863 Message Board Post: Hi! My name is Toni Carrier. I am the founding director of the University of South Florida Africana Heritage Project. We are committed to rediscovering precious records documenting African American ancestry, and making that information available on a free, public access internet site. Our website, which will be hosted by Rootsweb (God Love ‘Em), is now under construction, and we are accepting submissions of deed and will records that list slaves by name. We hope to come become a valuable resource to folks who are searching for slave ancestry, and to encourage a groundswell among the genealogical community, to rediscover these precious documents. Our website will also contain research articles on various topics relating to slavery and emancipation, and we will offer lesson plans for using this information as a teaching tool. Each record that we recover is a precious stone added to the pile, and we cherish our contributors. Please let us hear from you at toniheadr@aol.com, and God Bless.