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Comment by Lowcountry Africana on September 6, 2009 at 8:39pm

New Lowcountry Africana Content!

Hi Everyone,

Hope you are enjoying a great holiday weekend. We have posted new content to Lowcountry Africana:

Dr. A.E. Gibbes: Former Slaveholder of Samuel Gibbes, Sampson Fenwi...

Historical Contexts: History of the Freedmen's Bureau in SC

Hope there is a tidbit here for your research!

Best,
LCA Crew

Comment by Toni Carrier on August 29, 2009 at 12:56pm

Hope everyone is enjoying a great weekend! We have just rolled out a tremendous new block of content in the Lowcountry Africana Research Library; more than 100 Freedmen's Labor Contracts for Colleton County, 1866 as well as Bureau Land Reports which identify final slaveholders in Colleton County and provide insight on conditions there at the close of the war:

Freedmen's Labor Contracts, Colleton County, South Carolina, 1866

Final Slaveholders, Colleton County, South Carolina

We would like to invite you to join and post to our new Discussion Forums. We look forward to your participation!

Happy Ancestor Hunting from the LCA Crew!

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on August 23, 2009 at 2:16am

Welcome to our newest member Vicky Daviss Mitchell! Vicky has spent the last year indexing Georgia WPA Slave Narratives... welcome Vicky!

Comment by Toni Carrier on August 19, 2009 at 5:00pm

Have to correct myself on my last post. As I read the document again I realized that it connects Moses Gedos' wife Margret to the plantation, not necessarily to D.R. Postell. We would have to know more about the plantation's owners to know if D.R. Postell was the final slaveholder.

I made one of those snap assumptions!

Toni :)

Comment by Toni Carrier on August 19, 2009 at 12:20am

We just found a remarkable Freedmen's labor contract for Colleton County, SC that breaks through the 1870 Brick Wall by positively connecting a freed person with a surname to the final slaveholder. In this case the document links Moses Gedos' wife Margret to former slaveholder D.R. Postell. It is posted to our blog:

http://lowcountryafricana.net/blog.asp

Incredible.

Toni

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on August 13, 2009 at 1:56pm

Lowcountry Africana Welcomes Michael Hait as Coordinator of Resource Library

Lowcountry Africana, a free website dedicated to African American genealogy and history in the Lowcountry Southeast (SC, GA and FL) is pleased to welcome Michael Hait as Coordinator of the Lowcountry Africana Resource Library. In his new role at Lowcountry Africana, Michael Hait will develop and grow the website's online library with helpful resources on how to conduct a successful ancestor search.

Michael Hait is superbly qualified for his new role at Lowcountry Africana. He began tracing his own family tree at the age of nine, questioning his grandparents and great-grandparents to learn more, and has continued for over twenty years. His family tree can be traced back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on some lines.

He is the creator of The Family History Research Toolkit CD-ROM, available from Genealogical Publishing Co., and has authored several articles for Family Chronicle magazine. He also writes the African-American Genealogy Examiner column for Examiner.com (http://www.examiner.com/x-8873-African-American-Genealogy-Examiner), where he shares a wealth of information on genealogical methods, as well as in-depth advice on how to get the most from particular record sets.

Michael is the Master Editor of a book on Civil War soldiers from the Albany (New York) "hilltowns", and is currently compiling information for a future book on slave families of Prince George's Co., Maryland. Michael is also the administrator for the Genealogy Trails websites for Prince George's (http://genealogytrails.com/mary/princegeorges), Charles (http://genealogytrails.com/mary/charles), and St. Mary's (http://genealogytrails.com/mary/stmarys) counties in southern Maryland.

Michael is a current member of the National Genealogical Society, the Association of Professional Genealogists (National Capital Area chapter), the International Society of Family History Writers and Editors, the Afro-American Historical Genealogical Society, the Maryland Historical Society, the Maryland Genealogical Society, and the Prince George's Co. Genealogical Society.

Lowcountry Africana is honored to welcome Michael Hait. We look forward to his contributions and to the quality his depth of experience and expertise add to the Lowcountry Africana team!

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on August 13, 2009 at 8:31am

Welcome to our two newest members David and Ellen! Looking forward to your participation!

Toni

Comment by Lowcountry Africana on August 4, 2009 at 1:35am

Welcome to our newest member Karen Meadows-Rogers!

Toni

Comment by Toni Carrier on July 28, 2009 at 8:12pm

Joyce I can't believe we have known each other for eight years and we have never talked about your SC research! Lord.

Who are your slaveholding Hollis family members who may have connections to SC? I'm laughing that we have never discussed this!

---toni :)

Comment by Joyce Reese McCollum on July 28, 2009 at 6:15pm

I can't believe that the link was in my own backyard. All of my Alabama slaveholding Hollis clan at Low Country Africana. Now to see if the Hollis clan left good records naming their slaves or the acquisitions of slaves. I know when they migrated to Alabama so that helps. BTW, there were two D.U. Hollis'. Derrill Upright is the one who was the slaveholder of Harriet Hollis. There were also two Daniels, one of whom changed his name to Red Daniel!

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