Descendants of the Enslaved and Enslavers - Working Together to Discover Family
Cheri Hudson Passey, Sharon Batiste Gillins
Content
Welcome
1m 9s
Speaker's Introduction
56s
Introduction
3m 26s
Reality Hits Home
8m 18s
The Researcher's Questions
7m 28s
The Researcher's Responsibility
4m 56s
Sharing What You Find
7m 54s
Best Practices
11m 34s
Supporting Each Group
12m 55s
Announcement / prizes
2m 35s
Questions / answers
28m 19s
About this webinar
Sharon Batiste Gillins a descendant of enslaved ancestors and Cheri Hudson Passey a descendant of enslavers share how to overcome emotions and other obstacles to work together to connect families.
About the speakers
Cheri Hudson Passey is a Professional Genealogist, Instructor, Writer, and Speaker and the owner of Carolina Girl Genealogy, LLC . Cheri is the host of the genealogy chat show GenFriends and is a gene...
Learn more...
Sharon Batiste Gillins is a native of Galveston, Texas with paternal ancestral roots in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana and maternal roots in Fort Bend County, Texas. She is a passionate family history res...
Learn more...Related webinars
00:20:53
00:08:58
Comments (80)
Well done, Sharon and Cheri, you are a model for others to follow! Two other resources people may be interested in: Linked Descendants Group of Coming to the Table: https://comingtothetable.org/linked-descendants-working-group/ and the WikiTree US Black Heritage Project which has over 140,000 profiles of people and includes categories by county to aid searches: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:US_Black_Heritage
One point of clarification. I was aware of the Mary Moody Northen Endowment through a footnote in the book Bound Away by David Hackett Fischer and James C. Kelly about 10 years before the article on Uncle Bacchus was published. At the time I was seeking more information on how and where the Moody Family acquired my enslave Ransom ancestors. I reached out to the Endowment regarding access to their archives. However I wasn’t sure if traveling there to conduct research would be productive. \n\nAfter the publishing of the article, I reached out to the endowment to share the research I had on Bacchus Robertson (Uncle Bacchus). I’m talking Sharon Batiste Gillins about Bacchus, she asked if I was related to the Ransom Family. She then shared a document with me and strongly encourage me to come to Galveston, Texas.
Great Hope this session can run again
Excellent
Excellent ideas. Loved Sharon's Best Practices of Assess-- Acknowledge--Affirm (esp. intent). Thank you for giving me ideas as to how I can help those as yet undiscovered descendants of my forefathers' enslaved persons find records and make connections.
This was so wonderful! They both did an amazing job with a very sensitive subject. Thank you!
One of best ever webinars!
Thank you. My maternal family was in VA and WV since the Revolutionary War. We know some were enslavers but have no records of our own, just memberships to a couple of genealogy sites. This gives me ideas on how to help others with their family research.