Content
Welcome
1m 21s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 34s
Introduction
6m 4s
Goals and Steps
12m 38s
Website Tour
9m 19s
Takeaways and Questions
6m 43s
Announcements / prizes
2m 56s
Questions / answers
2m 45s
About this webinar
There are at least 44 million descendants of enslaved individuals alive today, but slavery separated families, erased names, and obscured facts. The 10 Million Names Project, recently launched by American Ancestors and its partners, aims to connect the family stories of these descendants to the 10 million men, women, and children of African descent who were enslaved in the U.S. prior to emancipation and to restore their names to history. Join Cynthia Evans and learn about the scope of this project, the objectives, and our methodology.
About the speaker
Cynthia Evans is the Director of Research for 10 Million Names. She manages and performs research for 10 Million Names projects. The 10 Million Names project is a collaborative project dedicated to re...
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Comments (53)
This is an amazing project! I first heard about it when Family Search announced funding for the National Museum for African American History and Culture. I had no idea how extensive the project would be. What a fabulous service American Ancestors is providing to the African American community. Everyone needs to be connected to their roots.
I have run across the names of slaves in various documents associated with my slave-holding Virginia-based ancestors, mostly in wills, all of which I have found through the Virginia Chancery Index of the Library of Virginia located at https://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/ . I will try to find some time to search those records again and provide that information to the 10 Million Names project. The indexers for that database have made efforts to include the names of slaves in the index.
Very interesting. This will give me some new perspectives for doing future searches. Have Aunt (deceased) that came from GA or AL and her parents had or lived on a farm/plantation? and there was a person named LONNIE and I will have to find the Census and forward it to Cythia
Thank you, Cynthia Evans and Legacy Family Tree Webinars, for introducing me to this invaluable and important project! While I’m not of African American descent nor a descendant of slaveholders, I felt so excited that I couldn’t even wait for the webinar to end before reaching out to 10MN@nehgs.org to volunteer. This is a brilliant initiative, and I’d be honored to contribute in any way I can :)
I enjoyed the information and was happy to learn more about the project.
When I finally decided to take a white circa-1820 ancestor from "mythical" to documented, the first deed I read was for land with a "saltpetre cave." There was a lawsuit (yay!) and when reading the case files, the very next solid fact about my ancestor, sadly, was that he had briefly bought & sold a woman and her daughter to finance the purchase. Witnesses told of her subsequent fate! This made me try to recall the new project I had caught wind of, and now I know where to send the data.
Lots of great information in this webinar! Thanks!
What an exciting and important project! Thank you, Cynthia, for sharing information about American Ancestors, the material you've already collected, and what your needs and goals are going forward.