Prince Rivers Accepts the Colors
Photo courtesy of The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Washington Course - Charleston
Photo available from The Charleston Preservation Society.
Slave Row - Port Royal Island
Photo courtesy of The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Pension Card File of Shedrick Manago
Photo Courtesy of The National Archives and Records Administration, Washington,D.C.
The Greaves Map of Mitchelville
Photo courtesy of The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Monday, December 31, 2012
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Saturday, December 29, 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Genealogy of Anna May Wong
Here are six great genealogy facts about 1920s Asian Film Actress Anna May Wong:
- Anna May Wong
Watch The Lady from Chungking (1942), down below:
Sunday, December 23, 2012
SEA ISLAND MEDITATION SESSIONS
...with Benita Gamble
Heal your body from the inside out by reserving your spot today!
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Treat your body to a day where you give it your undivided attention!
Monday, December 17, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
My Activist Fight Song...
This is what happens when a group of people get together and decide that it's time to make some people feel uncomfortable!
Friday, December 14, 2012
My Sea Island Soul Christmas - Bonus Track
Joe Tex - I'll make everyday Christmas...
All I have to say is..."Will Joe Tex marry me?"
The Adventures of Amos and Andy (1951) - Television Broadcast History
Amos 'n' Andy is a situation comedy started in the 20s with a radio show and later adapted to a television series in 1951. The two main characters Amos Jones and Andy Brown were constantly thinking up get rich schemes and their adventures were set in the black community. Amos and Andy was canceled shortly after becoming a TV Show following protests of the show's portrayal of African Americans. For more on Amos and Andy visit The Museum of Broadcast History online.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
A Few Screenshots from this weeks presentation...
About the Slave Trade - Using the Slave Voyages Database for research
Sunday, December 2, 2012
What in the Laverne Galeener-Moore...I hit the Genealogical Motherload and then after, couldn't afford to buy lunch...Librarians should be ashamed.
Well the Friends of the Beaufort County Library have done their job and suckered another poor genealogy obssessed soul into the neverending abyss of constant and continued primary source material acquisition. As I settled into a day full of long stretches of time where people mostly only asked me two questions, the first was, "If I worked here" and the second was "If they could check their books out with me", I glanced fatefully over to the section I like to call The Genealogist's Black Hole...or to the regular reading public, The Local History/Local Interest Section of your neighborhood library's Used Book Shelf.
There, in the weeds of these book shelves, *screams* FOR-TWO-DOLLARS...let me say it again....*screams* FOR TWO DOLLARS I found a copy of:
- "The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly of South Carolina November 20, 1706 - February 8, 1706 Published in 1939"
- "Accounts Audited of Revolutionary Claims against South Carolina Vol. 1 AND 2 Published 1938"
- "Journal of the Commissioners of the Indian Trade of South Carolina printed for the Historical Commission of South Carolina 1926"
- and a copy of Folks Huxford's [yes that is his first name people] "Pioneers of Wiregrass, GA Volume 6"
I have come to view the Used Book portion of a library's operations when it comes to genealogists to be much like that dynamic that exists between you and Used Car Salesman, if you were buying a car when you were 12 years old. How these people sleep at night knowing they rob unsuspecting genealogy lovers of their hard earned cash, is beyond me.
For someone who ALREADY has a massive library and NO OFFICE SPACE why WOULD I even buy more?
It's a sickness. Again, it is beyond me...how reference librarians sleep at night...knowing everyday that they continue to do this to us.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
African American Genealogy in the South Carolina Room
African American Genealogy in the South Carolina Room
Tips, Interviews and Ideas soon to come.
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