A Family for Suzanne

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1. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   Thank you very much, this was very intresting & compelling. I appeciate all the hard work you put into it, & you giving us the\nprivilage to share it. I trided to rate it 5! but my computer wouldn't respond. Again thank you for your time &dedication.\n\nThe level of citation and completeness of the narrative made this a really wonderful lesson in history and genealogy.\n\nThis was a fascinating presentation. It was hard to hear Suzanne's story yet the resilience of her descendants gives us a glimpse into her character and strength. Suzanne would certainly be proud of Ruth's accomplishments and her ability to bring her story to life. What a gift across the centuries. \n\nThis was a great story. The mentions of specific county records in Cape Girardeau was helpful. Also, the French Code Noir shows that we need to be sure we understand the laws of the area under different governments. \n\nThis was an excellent webinar. It showed that Black Americans have to look in multiple types of records in order to find their ancestors.\n\nThis was my first webinar and I really value all the lessons that it showed me - both about Black culture in that time and about the hard work and dedication it takes to tell a story such as this one.\n\nVery enlightening.\n\nvery good\n\nvery informative\n\nVery informative and engaging. Thank you for asking Ruth to present. Her research is impeccable, and it is especially inspiring to learn about a resourceful and resilient family, meeting challenges with grace and just plain hard work.\n\nVery informative and I am looking forward to reading the article. \n\nVery informative and inspirational!\n\nVery informative regarding documentation methods\n\nVery inspirational. Thank you. \n\nVery inspiring. Gave me new avenues to research in my tree. Thank you. Happy Hunting and Successful Searches!\n\nVery interesting \n\nVery interesting but so sad.\n\nVery interesting story. So sad that black people and slaves were treated do unfairly.\n\nVery interesting to learn more about the culture in the early 1800's. She surely did alot of research!\n\nVery interesting! I enjoyed hearing all about her story\n\nvery interesting, an unbelievable amount of genealogy work went into this informative presentation. thank you \n\nVery interesting, and great slides that told the story over so many years. Ms. Randall is a great speaker. Thank you.\n\nVery moving story - very inspirational research! Thank you!\n\nvery well researched\n\nVery well researched! I am so glad Ruth shared her research with us. How meaningful to her to be able to piece her family history together.\n\nWarming story of love for family\n\nWell documented (thanks for the examples!). This may help me decide to try for certification later this year.\n\nWell done and nicely presented. I learned lots from this webinar Finding a Family for Suzanne.\n\nwell done!\n\nWell done, very interesting presentation\n\nWonderful insights\n\nWonderful research!\n\nWonderful! Thank you!\n\nwow What a story!!! You have inspired me to get a move on and finish my history!!

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2. LT

   Legacy Family Tree

   4 years ago

   A wonderful account\n\nA wonderful family story. Thank you, Ruth, for your diligence in putting it all together and for your willingness to share it with the world.\n\nA work of Art! An incredible journey for Suzanne and for Ruth! I am in complete awe of this body of work! Having the names of this slave family and following the details of their stories simply breaks your heart. It makes this story of slavery so very personal, so intimate, so powerful. Thank you for sharing your family with me. I will remember. \n\nAbsolute wonderful presentation. Really enjoyed the journey of Suzanne. Particular of interest was the BCG documentation as satisfied by standards 1 & 83. Thank you Ruth and Legacy!\n\nAn excellent topic with great source examples - thank you!\n\nAn important story.... Thank you!\n\nAs fantastic a job Ms. Randall did in her case study of Suzanne, I really enjoyed looking at the documents, transcriptions, and source citations. These, paired with the standard numbers she used, allowed me to see which standards she referred to, giving me a better idea of certification standards. I felt that I was able to use this webinar as an educational tool. Thank you.\n\nAt times I was in tears. But appreciate the sharing of the history of this family bound in slavery. May we never repeat that in the future.\n\nAwesome story. I didn't realize it was her family until she said. That made it even better.\n\nclear\n\nEnlightening and well researched presentation. 10 years in the making - oh my! \n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent case study presentation and outline in the handout.\n\nExcellent case study. Interesting story and nice tribute.\n\nExcellent presentation based on a great article! The variety of resources successfully used to tell Suzanne's story makes me eager to get back into archives and libraries.\n\nExcellent presentation.\n\nExcellent research\n\nExcellent research and interpretation, Ruth! Terrific!\n\nexcellent, thanks Ruth for your family story, so sad to hear how people treated each other, unfortunatly "we" still haven't learnt.\n\nFantastic review of a family story, very inspiring to listen too.\n\nFantastic story which came to life from paper.\n\nFantastic webinar. The material was very well documented and presented in a logical and very interesting way. I can see why it won awards. I truly enjoyed the presentation and the speaker was excellent. \n\nFascinating to see all the handwritten records through the years. \n\nFascinating work, Ruth. Impressed with your persistence, and so grateful for making this story accessible to us. I had to join late, so missed a bit. But such a rich story!!! Thank you!!\n\nFascinating, careful research Very interesting presentation\n\nGreat\n\nGreat info. Good presentation. Thank you.\n\nGreat presentation, interesting and information. Thank you!\n\nGreat research and excellent presentation!\n\nGreat research!\n\nGreat story!\n\nHow amazing that Ruth has been able to trace this entire line. But what a terribly sad institution slavery was. It's hard to imagine such pain.\n\nI read the Suzanne story in NGS many years ago, and really enjoyed hearing the story behind it. \n\nI enjoyed the story about Suzanne and her family. Wonderful ideas about researching for family members.\n\nI missed the first 30 minutes so I had to catch up; however I could tell that this had been research of much meaning.\n\nI really appreciated Ms. Randall's story of how she got started on researching thls line of her family tree.\n\nImpressive research into hard to find sources.\n\nIt made it more interesting that you're a descendant of Suzanne, as it turned out Thanks for all of the hard work and real life stories.\n\nIt was a very interesting study of Suzanne and her family. Thank you, Ruth, for sharing your family with us.\n\nLove the presentation \n\nNot only was the presentation inspiring, but it showed what good genealogy looks like. What I most appreciated, beyond the proof of kinship that is fundamental to all good genealogy, was how the historical context was interwoven into the story.\n\nOutstanding in every way.\n\nOutstanding presentation!\n\nRuth Randall tonight, such a great webinar and compelling!! Thank you!\n\nShe's very knowledgeable and I enjoyed her from Suzanne forward, especially since her actual journey of discovery went backward through time to Suzanne.\n\nSo glad she shared some of the documents that she researched with us. \n\nSo informative! Yes, Black History is American History! We need to know this.\n\nSo well done, and the people really came alive. Excellent speaker. Loved it!\n\nThank you for sharing. Inspiring!

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