A follow up on recently requested info on a site to post slave info. This is exactly what I needed. I hope all of you who decend from slave owners and have document nameing slaves will post that info to this site. Jackie ----- Original Message ----- From: Brenda King Finch <kingfinch@hotmail.com> To: <THOMAS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [THOMAS] I need information on Slave sites. Research on establishing a site to post info on slaves found in many of our ancestors records. > Here is a National Collection place for Slave Data: > > We would certainly encourage and support all researchers to share any and > all slave data you encounter in your genealogical pursuits. We, African > Ancestored Researchers (aka: Afrigeneas), have a project of some 9 year > duration to gather, compile and make available slave data to the African > Ancestored researcher. Records kept by the slaveowner are frequently the > only clue to our ancestors, particularly during the period 1619-1870. > > > Records Sought include: > > Advertisements > Apprenticeship > Bible Records > Bills of Sale > Birth Records > Census Schedules > Church Records > Cohabitation > Court Records > DayBooks/Logs > Death Records > Diaries-Journals > Inventories > Legislative Acts > Letters > Litigation > Manumissions > Marriage Records > Military Records > Misc Records > Pension Records > Plantation Records > Run-A-Ways > SlaveOwners > Slave Sales > Tax Records > Wills > > _____________________ > > Such information provided is available to all researchers at our FTP site > and at the Afrigeneas HomePage. It is also available in the AOL Genealogy > Forum Libraries. > > > What format would we want the data? > > Well in the final analysis, whatever is best for you, the Sharer. > > A preferred format follows: > > > Slaveowners Name: > Name of Slave: > Parent(s) of Slave: > BirthPlace of Slave: > Age of Slave: > Sex of Slave: > Color of Slave: > Other Physical Description: > Other Information: > Source Document: > State: > County: > Year of Source Document: > How to Access Source Document: > > ================================ > > This information may be submitted on line > To: slavedata@aol.com > or By US Postal Service > > To: Anniston-Calhoun Public Library > Alabama Room-SlaveData Collection > Post Office Box 308 > Anniston, AL 36202 > > Browse The Collection As It Builds > > http://members.aol.com/slavedata/Public/ > > Thanx for your attention and for your help! > > Valencia King Nelson > National Coordinator > > > Browse AfriGeneas Archived Messages On-Line > > http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/ </fontfamily> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - African Ancestored Genealogy Discussion > - To unsubscribe, email: Majordomo@MsState.Edu > - In body of message: unsubscribe afrigeneas > - > - Afrigeneas archives: http://www.msstate.edu/listarchives/afrigeneas/ > > > > > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Jackie" <tanimara@townsqr.com> > To: THOMAS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [THOMAS] I need information on Slave sites. Research on > establishing a site to post info on slaves found in many of our ancestors > records. > Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:13:18 -0500 > > I have recently been involved in a discussion about how to find information > on slaves. People that are trying to track their genealogy back to slaves > have limited resources for that information. As a decendant of slave > owners, I find listed in the Wills of my ancestors the names of many slaves. > This information just sets there and I feel it needs to be listed > somewhere. Does anyone know of a site that deals with this type of > information? (slave research). Specifically a site that lists slave names, > dates and locations. I feel a responsibility to the decendants of slaves to > provide this information as I come across it. If a site is not available, I > think one should be and Im thinking about starting one. I would appreciate > any ideas or information on this subject. > > Jackie > tanimara@townsqr.com > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > ==== THOMAS Mailing List ==== > Did you know that only 7% of Rootsweb subscribers support Rootsweb? > Thank you for your generous financial support of Rootsweb! > RootsWeb Gen. Data Coop. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html >