Hi Traci, Would you object to my posting your information to another MO Maillist? Thanks, Mike Michael G. McManness, a Jayhawk through and through, eating, sleeping, and bleeding Crimson and Blue near the University of Kansas. Family genealogist and research historian. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Traci Wilson-Kleekamp" <twilsonklee@earthlink.net> To: <MOMONITE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 12:31 PM Subject: Missouri Resources for African American Researchers > > Several Missouri County Coordinators & other have responded to the > discussion about African American research -- asking what kinds of > information to look for. > > In particular -- if there is any information about the "slave community" > or the ante-bellum community for any Missouri county.. this is very > important to researchers. This may give them some clues as to the > backdrop of the community, slave owners and lifestyle of that era and > area! > > Another very cool search engine -- allows you to research collections at > university libraries. For example I discovered that Duke University had > 11 boxes of records on the TUTT family that migrated from VA to > Missouri.. and settled in Callaway County first... not Cooper County as > I first thought! > http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html > > The most important resource an African American Researcher needs is > slave schedules for the county they are researching. If anyone has > transcribed slave schedules, or would like to...please let me know. > There are some online... but many more are needed. Free People of Color > had to be registered.. you would only find these records at the > courthouse or on microfilm somewhere. Here's a link to my website for > Slave Schedules and other resources: > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/slaveinfo.html > > To share this kind of information, white researchers must become > somewhat sensitized to the plight and difficulty of those researching > enslaved ancestors. For the most part, besides being counted as chattel > on tax, land deed and slave schedules, African Americans were not > counted as people until the 1870 census. Other records of interest would > be church records, which notes people of color being allowed or > dispelled from the church etc., but they are not always given a > surname. Sometimes they are noted by their first name and "as belonging > to "X" slaveowner." Bottom line is that African American researchers > are very dependent upon getting information from the slaveowning > family's documentation. > > On my site I have some resources for Marriage, census and cemetery data: > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/Document.html > > Here's an example of what Church Records can show: > http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/mtnebo.html > > And wills... this is where I found my great great grandfather's > mother...Mary Ann... mentioned is her mother and siblings I believe > http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/jchism.jpg > > Public Auction notices for slaves; can be found in probate records: > http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/mwalkerslaves.jpg > > Many people in conducting research in their families run across slave > related information. It is both painful, embarrassing and confusing all > at once. It is my hope that when anyone runs across Missouri > slave-related data that they would post it to my website at: > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/indexusg.html > > If you scroll down to the middle there a links for just about > everything. You could also help others by posting your slave related > data on the Missouri list that you subscribe to... and you can always > forward it to me. Just know that I get many, many emails -- so it is > much easier to post the information to the link noted above. If want to > mail, fax or email me scanned documents -- I'm game for that too. Since > Missouri was settled by Virginia, Kentucky and Louisiana people -- > [Tennessee too] if you have a Missouri family with ties to those state > [or any other state -- where you can establish the genealogical ties] > this is particularly helpful for the African American researcher who > must first know EVERYTHING they can about the white slave owning family. > Why? Because we must trace slave ownership through marriages, death, > relocation, rentals, property purchases, farm ledgers, lawsuits, and > family letters, bibles etc., where slaves could be mentioned as a record > of ownership. It's pretty crazy. > > I've included some links below that many of you may already know about.. > but to give you an idea of what African American researchers need. > > Missouri State Archives > http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/arch.html > > Roll-by-roll listing County Record on microfilm by county > http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/resources/county/croll.html > > Description of Records on Film > http://mosl.sos.state.mo.us/rec-man/archives/resources/county/croll2.html#Pr obate > > For African American Researchers; the items below are of interest. If > your family owned slaves; records purchase, sale, rent, mortgage, gift, > lawsuits etc., could be found under the various listings related to > probate noted in the link above. Of particular interests are books and > other resources which transcribe or are abstracts of Wills, > Administrations and Probate. If anyone has a book with this type of > information, I would like to purchase or borrow it ASAP. > > Also of interest in looking for enslaved ancestors are > Black Cemeteries > Black Marriages > Here are a couple of examples: > FRANKLIN COUNTY BLACK MARRIAGES > http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/franklincomar.htm > WASHINGTON COUNTY BLACK MARRIAGES > http://www.missouri-slave-data.org/wasmarriage2.html > > Land Deed Records > Final Settlement and Inventory Records -- this shows the final > disposition of the estate including who slaves in the family were sold > and given to and for how much. Land Deed records are equally > important. Tax records will note how many slaves person owned. > > I hope this helps clarify just a little bit of what it takes to research > enslaved peoples. For those of your managing Missouri county sites; I > think the information above is a good outline of materials to try and > collect. > > I also have a link for "look-up" volunteers. Please copy me on > correspondence to "look-up" volunteers -- because I may also have > another researcher to connect you with. > > Thanks alot; > > traci wilson-kleekamp > african americans in missouri > http://www.missouri-slave-data.org > http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mo/topic/afro-amer/indexusg.html >