Hi Booners, This lady has done an incredible job! Great resources and a wonderful way to help by posting anything you may have that she can use. We know here were Boone slave owners, and black Boone descendants... Geraldine Ingersoll, Director Boone Society, Inc. X-Message: #1 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:15:41 -0700 From: Traci Wilson-Kleekamp <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Subject: [MOSTCHAR-L] African Americans in Missouri Research Resources Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey Listers The real hard work in tracing African American ancestors comes from reading the microfilm and transcribing a variety of documents. My website has a variety of documents available because of the volunteer efforts of other researchers. Washington and Franklin county black marriages and several others are available via the links below. http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/wasmarriage2.html http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/franklincomar.htm For other items: http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/Document.html I have two websites: http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/ The mirror site at: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/indexusg.html Over the past 2 years I have continued to ask other researchers to submit their slave related data that they come across. If you find a will, probate record, letter or final settlement listing or even bible records that mentions slaves; you can post this information at: You can view QUERIES here: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/queries/index.cgi?index post and view WILLS: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/wills/index.cgi post and view OBITUARIES http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/obits/index.cgi post and view PROBATE RECORDS -- I have several records of the WALKER family -- but have not had the time to transcribe... I will work on getting this up one by one. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/probate/index.cgi view and post LAND RECORDS: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/land/index.cgi view and post TAX RECORDS: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/tax/index.cgi view and post PRIVATE FAMILY RECORDS http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/webbbs/private/index.cgi There is also a page for other slave schedules, marriage records etc. http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/slaveinfo.html http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/slaveinfo.html Since Missouri was settled from families from Louisiana, Kentucky and Virginia.. you may have slave data that connects to the Missouri families...you are welcome to post that data here: please don't forget to NOTE the date, page number, volume etc., of where you found the information. If you want to scan a document and email it to me.. .I will put it online as soon as I can. This page has alot of goodies that I have scanned http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/Document.html You can ALSO submit non-Missouri related slave data to [email protected] I also have a group of volunteers transcribing the Missouri slave ledger of Slave Trader John R. White -- if you are interested in volunteering let me know. If you have resources or materials to do look ups for others... that is also of interest. Histories of the various counties can be very helpful for African American researchers who are trying to get background historical and genealogical information on the slave owning families. Also.. there is a very large database detailing the Frontier Families of Missouri: http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/upperla/index.html http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/upperla/index.html My email box crashed yesterday -- so if you have sent me slave related data in the past couple of months... most of it was wiped out. If you want to resend it -- or post it to the links noted above -- that would be great. I am able to go back and VIEW my old email -- but it will take some time to retrieve and cut and paste it. AND if you have an new email address or snail mail address -- please let me know. Thanks in advance to EVERYONE who has been supporting and assisting others seeking enslaved ancestors from Missouri. And yes.. I owe everyone an updated report on My last two trips to MO.. which were incredible... lots of information to share and not enough time to do it ALL. My sites also need some updating.. feel free to drop me a line if you find a broken link etc., if you have some data that you've transcribed in MS WORD.. it can be put into html and put online almost instantly!!! With a big heart! Traci Wilson-Kleekamp African Americans in Missouri