Introduction to Researching Your Mississippi Ancestors
Angela Walton-Raji
Content
Welcome
1m 46s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 9s
Introduction
4m 24s
The People
14m 7s
Free People of Color
7m 26s
Military Records
5m 29s
Era of Freedom
7m 18s
Unique Records
7m 30s
Choctaws
17m 58s
20th Century
18m 2s
Announcements / prizes
4m 38s
Questions / answers
6m 35s
About this webinar
Mississippi, like many other states has rich genealogical data for African American research, most of which can be found in traditional places---census, vital records, local courthouse records. However, this state also offers some unique records from the period of the Civil War, the era of freedom and emancipation, and also records reflecting families to ties with Native American communities. There were 31 branches of the Freedmen's Bureau throughout Mississippi. There were 11 regiments of the United States Colored troops representing over 10,000 men of African descent in the Union Army from the state. In addition to many of those collections, are resources from the Educable Children's list, Southern Claims Commission records of black homesteaders. This session will explore some of those rich resources and methods of finding them.
About the speaker
Angela Walton-Raji is known nationally for her genealogical and historical research and work with Oklahoma Native-American records. Her book, “Black Indian Genealogy Research” was the first book of it...
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Angela did a Fantastic Job! I learned a lot and took several pages of notes! She has helped me "tell my family's story!"
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Angela's presentation was excellent and filled with great resources!
The presentation was full of resources and methods to use those resources for other than what is obvious. I enjoyed the speaker's enthusiasm for finding the stories of ancestors and not just their names.