FREEDMEN'S VIDEO - click here ->>> Now Available |
VIDEO RECORDING - NOW AVAILABLE - FREEDMEN'S BUREAU: Overview & Resources
Download Handout SHARON BATISTE GILLINS created an overview of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. In this video recorded from our April 20th - Third Saturday presentation, Ms. Gillins reviewed the history and organization of the Freedmen’s Bureau, types of records and how to analyze records to discover details of family history and life before and after emancipation.
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Your research skills and interest in the African-American community will be a valuable contribution to our organization. Join the AAGGKY today! Our membership is open to anyone interested in researching, preserving, and sharing the stories of Kentucky’s African-American generations. When you join AAGGKY, you associate with people from all walks of life. We serve on Boards…of history, genealogy, museums, libraries, and research institutes. We are plumbers, janitors, teachers, preachers and presidents and truck drivers. We are African. We are Caucasian. We are Native. We are American. We are Kentuckian. We are as economically and culturally diverse as our heritage suggests. We are inclusive; seeking only to promote African-American genealogical research and the values of family, fellowship, and education. These are principles which bind us together. We invite you to tell us about yourself and your research - your story. |
"I too am of the hills, my folks have corn rowed tobacco, laid track, strip mined, worshipped and whiskied from Harlan to Maysville, old Dunbar to Central...We put the heat in the hot brown and gave it color.
Indeed some of the bluegrass is black."
- from Kentucke by Frank X Walker
Poet Laureate of Kentucky 2013 - 2015