Methodology and Skills,Board for Certification of Genealogists,Places and Ethnicities,African American,BCG
A Myriad of Slave Databases
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG, CGL, FASG
Content
Welcome
55s
About BCG
6m 44s
Speaker's Introduction
59s
Introduction
11m 16s
Existing Databases
12m 20s
The National Archives
8m 5s
FamilySearch
5m 16s
Databases with Geographic Limits
3m 38s
Virginia Untold
10m 31s
Announcements
2m 8s
Questions / answers
9m 48s
About this webinar
In the summer of 2023 American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society announced the collaborative 10 Million Names project, an undertaking to recover the names of people of African descent who were enslaved in the area of the United States. This monumental task of centralizing datasets about African Americans is likely to take years to accomplish; in the interim, this webinar provides a useful survey of the many existing databases that serve a similar purpose though limited in scope.
About the speaker
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson was elected as a trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) in 2016 and served as President from 2019-2022. She was elected a Fellow of the American Society o...
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Comments (110)
Thank you so much for doing this presentation. I am excited to use these databases and hope they will help me breakthrough a specific part of my research that I have been stuck on for a while.
Very informative and clear to follow along. I loved it and will look forward to more of the speaker's webinars.
Very informative and clear!!
Useful I will use the data in my research
Great information. Can't wait to use the databases. Thanks so much!
I learned so much in a short amount of time. This will help direct some of my searches around my roadblocks.
WOW, what a presentation. Soo informative and thank you for all of the resources.
Great information.