Useful Articles from Academic Journals (IV)
Some articles in academic journals can be very helpful for biographical information about specific un-famous people, as shown by the following biographies of three antebellum enslaved people and the...
View ArticleFinding Academic Sources
In previous posts, I described examples of the kinds of information available in academic journals. The traditional way to access these resources would be to go to library shelves and start reading...
View ArticleHistorian ponders effect of AA genealogy on historical understanding
The latest Journal of Southern History (Vol 75, no. 3, August 2009) includes an article by Professor W. Fitzhugh Brundage (pages 751-766) discussing how historians study memory and the role of memory...
View ArticleProbate Records: have you looked at the vouchers?
Most researchers who have used probate records know about the value of inventories and appraisements, annual returns, sales and distributions — all of which may provide lists of the enslaved, along...
View ArticleReview: Michael Hait, Delaware Slave Claims Commission
Michael Hait, transcriber, Slave Claims Commission, 1864-1867, Volume One, Register of Claims of Delware Commission as kept by the Commission, Recd. A. G. C. May 24, 1865 (Hait Family History Research...
View ArticleTrons and Paper
I’m an old-fashioned, conservative sort of guy; I cannot see the day when electronic files and the internet will render books and papers documents entirely obsolete. I spent many hours of my boyhood...
View ArticleCourt records are our best sources for slave data
Last Friday I telephoned the Thomaston-Upson County Archives in Georgia to say “hello” and to catch up with news of recent accessions. Bonnie, the archivist’s assistant and chief collection arranger,...
View ArticleField trip, day 1: NC Archives at Raleigh
My vacation this year was to North Carolina. Enroute to the Southern Historical Association annual meeting in Charlotte last week I detoured to Raleigh to dig in the North Carolina State Archives. I...
View ArticleField Trip, days 2-5: Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting
The Southern Historical Association meeting was fun for me; although as usual many interesting panel presentations were scheduled simultaneously. For instance, Andrew Slap of East Tennessee State...
View ArticleThomaston, Georgia: May 29 Emancipation Day Celebration
May 2011 will witness the 146th annual organized celebration of Emancipation in Upson County, Georgia. Each year beginning May 29, 1866, people of Upson and surrounding counties have converged on the...
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