In Their Own Words: Genealogy in the Slave Narratives
Renate Yarborough Sanders
Content
Welcome
2m 30s
Speaker's Introduction
2m 11s
Introduction
3m 26s
Where are They Found?
3m 43s
What Kind of Info?
10m 37s
Characterization
5m 26s
Letters
6m 32s
Freedom Stories
6m 51s
Lest We Forget
4m 37s
Announcements / prizes
7m 56s
Questions / answers
13m 2s
About this webinar
Uncovering the genealogy of the formerly enslaved can be challenging; but, sometimes, the information is left in first-hand accounts, commonly known as "Slave Narratives.” From books, to projects set up to learn about life during slavery, researchers can find an abundance of genealogical and other information about enslaved families, their owners, and their communities - straight from the mouths of the Ancestors.
\nAbout the speaker
Renate Yarborough Sanders is the descendant of formerly enslaved ancestors, enslavers, and free people of color. She authors two blogs: “Into the LIGHT” and “Genea-Related;” and produces a “(Mostly) A...
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This information needs to get out right now as this world goes through some of the same things.\n\nThis is one of the best webinars ever. It provided balance to what's often said about the enslaved experiences and hearing it in their own words removes all mystery and second-guessing. Thank you for this and the entire series!\n\nThis presentation was amazing! The speaker was absolutely great. I loved her tone and her rate of speaking. The slides were very useful as were the explanations of how to use the narratives when researching. Before viewing this presentation, I had put off reading many of the slave narratives because of the trauma it produced for me. After hearing the presentation I now feel empowered to add the slave narratives to my collection of growing resources I use, that tell the enriched history of my family.\n\nThis was a great webinar. Very emotional. I loved the readings and recordings. It made it come alive.\n\nThis was a wonderful webinar from a great presenter. Thank you!\n\nThis was an excellent presentation, and I look forward to others from the presenter \n\nThis was an exceptional presentation. I am looking forward to utilizing some of the research tools presented in the presentation. \n\nThis was my first time actually seeing/hearing some of the slave narratives. It was very moving!\n\nThis was so moving. Thank you.\n\nThis was so very difficult to hear, but, I’m now very motivated to help my African-American friends who are not genealogists to find their ancestors. I will look at their suffering with humility, compassion and tenderness. \n\nThis webinar has been very inspiring! I am hopeful that I will be successful in using the Slave Narratives in getting past my Brick Walls!\n\nVery emotional stories that needed to be heard. \n\nVery emotional. It's hard to think that only 4 generations before me, my ancestors were Enslaved Persons. Great presentation!\n\nvery enlightening\n\nvery Good\n\nVERY GOOD LISTENING PROGRAM\n\nVery helpful and lots of good info. Keep it going.\n\nVery informative \n\nVery informative and interesting\n\nVery informative and moving.\n\nVery informative and useful in my research on race relations, etc. Thank you!\n\nVery informative and useful information.\n\nVery informative information. \n\nVery informative. Thank you.\n\nVery insightful, well organized and easy to follow. Great presentation.\n\nVery interesting and informative.\n\nVery interesting, informative and helpful for my family research.\n\nVery interesting. Presented with enthusiasm and obvious energy towards the subject.\n\nVery moving and inspiring webinar! It urges me into further research of my enslaved ancestors to honor them. Renate did a wonderful job with this information. I am so glad to have been able to attend. \n\nvery moving presentation with the recorded voices of the ex enslaved.\n\nVery moving presentation. Thank you. The hour just flew by!\n\nvery moving\n\nVery moving!\n\nVery personal. Touching. Overwhelmingly heartbreaking and incomprehensible that his happened and is STILL happening in the world today. Separating families, abuse and actually feeling it is OK to do so is ......I cannot understand it!\nThank you for a unique and remarkable presentation!\n\nvery well presented\n\nVisuals were excellent.\n\nWell done in organization and moving in presentation. Hope to find some connects to my family research through the sources mentioned.\n\nWell done, very informative.\n\nWhat an amazing and emotional webinar. There was no way those in attendance could have kept a dry eye. To see/hear in their own words what their lives consisted of was so powerful. Thanks and hope we have more like this. \n\nWonderful presentation, so moving and informative. I have made a note to self to check out Finding Calvin. \n\nWOW, it's presentations like this that help remind us why we spend so much time and effort working on family history. What a blessing!
Oh my goodness!!! This was an EXCELLENT presentation!!! Even though the subject matter was painful and difficult to hear and see, it was presented with such beauty, dignity, and respect for the formerly enslaved. I never thought of using the slave narratives for genealogy research. What an overlooked resource!!! Thank you both for hosting this webinar.\n\nOne of the best I've heard.\n\nOUTSTANDING!!! I was not familiar with this topic and my GGF was a slave. I will now look into this for more detail about his life. Thank you. \n\nPowerful content\n\nQuite compelling!!! Re-ignited my desire to look more closely at the slave narratives for Jefferson County Arkansas.\n\nRenate always brings us back to the people. Not just names and numbers. I will be looking for Finding Calvin. Thank You\n\nRenate always does an excellent job. \n\nRenate did a Great job handling a very delicate topic! Very professionally done, Renate!\n\nRenate gave a great great webinar! I found out where to go to help me get so much more ! Thanks so much.\n\nRenate is always so informative and wonderful to listen to. Having attended her Calvin webinar (and viewing it a couple of times after that) I can't wait to register for Calvin FINALLY FOUND!\n\nShe is an excellent presenter and hope to hear more! Thank you!\n\nSo emotional! I loved all the resources Renate mentioned, in addition to the Slave narratives and how she parsed out useful genealogical data from the stories. The chat was heartwarming too. You guys do an excellent job. Thanks for including African American research in your lineup.\n\nSo informative and heartbreaking. Beautifully done\n\nso moving\n\nSo moving! \n\nSo touched! Thank you, for all of your preparations!\n\nThank you for a wonderful presentation! These stories can never be forgotten and should be heard today, more than ever. \n\nThank you for providing a quality and informative webinar. \n\nThank you for this enlightening and emotional journey.\n\nThank you so much for this webinar. It was both moving and helpful.\n\nThank you, Renate, for a really moving and informative presentation. \n\nThanks \n\nThe presenter's pleasant voice enhanced the information that she shared. \n\nThe quotes from the slave narratives were powerful!\n\nThe webinar provided me with a lot of new information - I am now going to start looking for slave narratives in my home town area.\n\nThe webinar was excellent. I am new a genealogy. \n\nThere were moments in the webinar that were certainly emotional. Reading and hearing those slave narratives...it tugs at my heart strings that these people went through something so horrible.\n\nOverall, this was a great webinar!
Excellent! To hear the voices of the formerly enslaved is powerful. I am working on my own tree of enslaved and slave owning ancestors and it is emotionally challenging but both are interconnected. Thank you for this wonderful session and please continue to expand the African diaspora series to include the Caribbean. \n\nExcellent, moving presentation!\n\nExcellent, the detail and the steps were awesome\n\nExcellent. She needs to come back\n\nextremely informative and emotion!!\n\nFabulous presentation. So glad Geoff is back and healthy!! Thank you.\n\nFABULOUS, and I joined late. I will be listening again!\n\nGood resources and wonderful examples of details found in the narratives. \n\nGreat information\n\nGreat information, another avenue to look for my ancestors.\n\ngreat job\n\nGreat job Renate\n\nGreat overview of a very rich resource for research on formerly enslaved and their enslavers!\n\ngreat presentation, a wealth of information!\n\nher kind voice totally lended to her knowledge and relatability, thank you\n\nI almost didn't watch this webinar but I am so glad that I did. It was emotional but I felt I learnt a lot from the personal stories.\n\nThis was a very well-presented webinar on slavery. Now I feel there is a great possibility of me finding out more about my ancestors. I also appreciate Renate sharing her emotional response to the topic. I now feel prepared to find out about my ancestors and not being leary of the feelings associated with that research. Thank you, Renate!! You did a WONDERFUL job of giving me hope in finding my enslaved ancestors!!\n\nI have several friends I can better help now! Thank you Renate Yarborough-Sanders!\n\nI love listening to Renate spoke. My cousin and I where both online and we where chatting back and forth about the different things we can research...Great presentation\n\nI really enjoy listening to the narratives, it was so interesting.\n\nI really enjoyed the presentation and will start looking for/at the sources mentioned. Thank you all.\n\nI really enjoyed this webinar. This encourages me to research the slave narratives.\n\nI think because I am an archaeologist who had to take anthropology classes I know about resources (like the ones used today) most people don't know about or think to use but should. Not only am I happy to see more videos on other cultures, but I am thrilled to see researchers using non-traditional sources for genealogical research. More, please!\n\nI will check to see if there were any interviews in the areas of my relatives.\n\nI wish I could give this a 10 or 15! I know the information presented was only the tip of the iceberg but it gave the viewers the chance to know what is out there. I've looked at some slave narratives from the WPA. I give Renate my heartfelt thanks for presenting this and for opening more doors and keeping those knowledge doors open to our real past the the toll on our ancestors. Thank you Renate, and Legacy Family Tree Webinars. \n\nIncredibly moving. Thank you!\n\nInspiring! Thank you!\n\nIt was emotional for me too. Thanks for directions to resources I can use to search for potential narratives from my ancestors.\n\nIt was soooooo moving! Thanks for sharing the narratives. Can't wait for the new part in Kalvin's story.\n\nIt was very heart wrenching presentation just listening to the voices of our former enslaved men and women and what they experienced. This is something we must never forget. Renate Y Sanders gave very informative presentation and I learned a lot.\n\nIt was very informative and well presented. I could not stop crying I have never heard the slave narratives. Thank you and Renata for making these available. We must never forget...\n\nIT WAS WONDERFUL!!! I am so glad I listened to it. How wonderful these Slave Narratives exist...but how sad and sobering. I cried as their painful stories were brought to life. Thank you for sharing. The closing screen and piano music was beautiful. \n\nLiked pre-recording followed by live Q&A. Probably minimized technical glitches.\n\nlove the photos and recordings\n\nLoved this presentation!!\n\nNow I will have to look at the Mississippi Slave Narriatives.
A wonderful presentation - very emotional. I have three little books of the WPA Slave Narratives, edited by Belinda Hurmence, that I purchased at Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage, in 2006. I'm going to read them again, with a different perception. Thank you, Legacy Family Tree, for presenting this webinar, and thank you, Renate Yarborough Sanders, for the wonderful presentation.\n\nAlways enjoy Renate’s webinars. Today’s was especially moving and appreciated the breakdown of finding genealogy information in the narrative format....wonderful presentation \n\nAmazing--and so extraordinarily important. Thank you, Legacy, for this elucidating and moving webinar!\n\nBrilliantly moving presentation relating to Slavery and to the lives of the enslaved. Have left a number of reference relating to slave narratives in the chat for everyone.\n\nCaptivating and very emotional. \n\ncousin renate always presents a high quality well organized presentation...looking forward to future shows!\n\nDon't do slave research but this was very informative and emotional. Hope she does more webinars.\n\nEmotional for sure!\n\nEmotional. Thank you for putting this webinar together. Such an important topic to learn about and from.\n\nEnjoyed!\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent and very personal presentation- I also am one who got shivers up my spine as some of Renate's examples made me start thinking about some things in a different way. She may have inadvertently given me a hint to track down the location of one branch of my family. I got some work to do. Thank you! \n\nExcellent presentation and information!\n\nExcellent presentation, very informative and educational. I am appreciative to you Ms Sanders!\n\nExcellent presentation, which also brought tears to my eyes. A C Bilbrew County Library in Los Angeles has volumes of Slave Narratives. My mothers' 1st cousin has an ancestor in one of those volumes. Mr. English from Missouri is buried in San Diego, California. Again, I thoroughly enjoyed and learned from this presentation. Thank you to Legacy.\n\nExcellent presentation. Informative and very moving.\n\nExcellent presentation. Very moving.\n\nExcellent presentation...very emotional subjuect ... well presented ... truly a learning experience\n\nExcellent webinar.\n\nExcellent! Excellent!!\n\nExcellent! I enjoyed the use of mixed media which made the narratives come to life.