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African American Genealogy - West Virginia

June 20th, 2006
Posted in Blogs

    If you are searching for African
American Genealogy in West Viriginia
a new blog has been created that might help
you. Blogger Chaynes has created a large index of African American people in West
Viriginia which has been given to various historical socities. What started out as
a personal search for some grandparents has turned into a large compilation of African
American Genealogy. Here is an excerpt:

Somewhere along the line I decided that if I simply wrote down the names
of every black/mulatto/native american that I could find in the area, by the process
of elimination, I would locate my ancestors.
Every year I would send a copy of my draft notes to a historical society or museum.
The first year I sent one tiny section consisting of, at most, forty pages. Now, there
are 27 sections.

I now feel that it might be of some help to folks who had ancestors in southeastern
West Virginia to share some tips and information via a blog.

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