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Research at the National Archives and Beyond

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Welcome to Research at the National Archives and Beyond. This show will provide individuals interested in genealogy and history an opportunity to listen, learn and take action. I offer a wonderful line up of experts who will share resources, stories and answer your burning genealogy questions. All of my guests share a deep passion and knowledge of genealogy and history. My goal is to reach individuals who are thinking about tracing their family roots; beginners who have already started and others who believe that continuous learning is the key to finding answers. "Remember, your ancestors left footprints".

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A Denver, Colorado native, Mr. Stephen Hammond is a retired federal employee having spent his entire 40-year career as an earth scientist with the United States Geological Survey. He is now a Scientist Emeritus with the agency. Steve has... more
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Telling Her Story: Finding Female Ancestors When Few Clues Exist? Viola Osborne Baskerville is a Richmond native who has been tracing several lines of her own family history for over thirty years. Brief sketches about three family... more
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How an 1829 Slave Bill of Sale & A Question Connects Janice Cross-Gilyard to her 5th Great-Grandmother, Willoughby McWhite. Janice Cross-Gilyard will share how a segment from the PBS Show – The History Detectives... more
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Renate began seriously researching her paternal Yarborough line in 1997, after the death of her father. She learned that the progenitor of this line,her great-grandfather, Calvin, had been enslaved in North Carolina for the first 25... more
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Adrienne Abiodun is a professional genealogist located outside of Tampa, Florida. Combined, her personal and professional genealogical pursuits span nearly two decades, fourteen years of which have been in the exploration of... more
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This is a collection of runaway slave ads from Edgefield county, South Carolina. Edgefield split into multiple counties, Aiken county being one. The ads cover the 1830s-1860s. Get a different side of slavery, the side we're not really taught... more
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Are you worried that you've been collecting ancestral information for years but haven't done anything with it? In 2016, Kathy Lynne Marshall, 60, felt the mandate from her ancestors to write their stories NOW. She finally figured out... more
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Join Brian Sheffey for a discussion of the research behind the Moses Williams Project where he will discuss the numerous repositories and databases accessed in the course of researching his life to-date. Brian Sheffey has expertise in... more
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North Carolina's Free People of Color, 1715–1885 Warren Eugene Milteer Jr. examines the lives of free persons categorized by their communities as negroes, mulattoes, mustees, Indians,mixed-bloods, or simply free people of... more
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Hidden in Plain Site: Researching for the Descendants of the Enslaved Laborers who built UVA Dr. Shelley Murphy was hired to conduct genealogical research for descendants of the enslaved laborers who helped to build the University of... more
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