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A Black History Month gift – an unexpected find!
Happy Black History Month! This is the first Black History month since I decided to share my genealogy journey and launch Reclaiming Our Ancestors. I had grand plans to post a new blog every week in February, but alas, real…
Breaking down the brick wall: The Chavis Family
In my last post, I introduced my 6x great grandmother Rebecca Chavis. Now, I want to explain a bit more about how I discovered her. Buckle up because it’s a long, winding road! Hopefully, this post will show how you…
Commemorating 1619 & celebrating colonial ancestors
The 1619 African arrival August 1619. Exactly 400 years ago, “20 and odd negroes” arrived at Point Comfort in the British Jamestown, VA colony (present-day Hampton, VA), to be traded for food provisions for their captors. Though 1619 was hardly…