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Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company. New. (2003) 2005. Second Edition. Trade Paperback. Index. . 422 pages. When <I>Black Genesis</I> was originally published in 1978, it was the first book to provide researchers with information on resources and a methodology specific to African-American genealogy. Now, this pioneering book has been completely updated, and it is once again the premier guide to African-American genealogy. The new edition of <I>Black Genealogy</I> provides guidance not only to the samebasic resources presented in the original edition but also to a substantial amount of additional material, in a new, easier-to-use format. The original goal, however, remains the same -- to introduce the novice and professional researcher to African-American genealogical research methods and resources. .

Salt Lake City: Ancestry, Inc.. New. 2000. Trade Paperback. Illus., index. . 152 pages. This book takes you through your ancestors' transition from slavery to freedom, giving you the details you need to find them using the federal census, planatation records, and other sources. The book also considers possible ways to locate runaway slave advertisements, to identify an ancestor's military regiment, and to access the valuable informaion from the Freedman's Savings and Trust records. .

Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. New. 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 166 pages. (Chapel Hill Book Ser. ) . In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina--and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state. More than 300 slaves worked the plantation's fields at the height of its prosperity; but nearly 125 years later, the only remembrance of their lives at Somerset, now a state historic site, was a lonely wooden sign marked "Site of Slave Quarters." <I>Somerset Homecoming</I>, first published in 1989, is the story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place. Traveling down winding southern roads, through county courthouses and state archives, and onto the front porches of people willing to share tales handed down through generations, Dorothy Spruill Redford spent ten years tracing the lives of Somerset's… Read More