Wednesday, November 1, 2017

The Unnamed Slave in the City of Hammond Name Was Gaston

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The Unnamed Slave Gravesite L ast year while researching African American history in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana., I came across an ar...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

The Obituary of Stine Temple

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S tine Temple, a dock worker for United Fruit Co., died Tuesday of a heart attack at United Medical Center. He was 52. Mr. Temple was a l...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

Connecting Our Vining Family Genetic Through Ancestry DNA

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Isaiah Vining Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell S everal months ago my cousin Belinda Vining Trepagnier and I talked about having her f...
Friday, October 27, 2017

Rev. Charles Daggs Ran for Office in Tangipahoa Parish in 1872

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State of Louisiana Parish of Tangipahoa Before the undersigned (?) appeared Charles Daggs, Emanuel Daggs, who being duly sworn a...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Sarah Nicholson Kidnapped and Sold Into Slavery in St. Helena, Louisiana

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Edna Jordan Smith M any people watched the movie "Twelve Years a Slave," or read the book. Over a decade ago I came across ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Mary Carter Was a Trail blazer in Ponchatoula, Louisiana

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Mary Carter M ary Carter served as temporary District 4 alderwoman since Nov. 1984.  She was appointed by the Board of Aldermen to serv...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

The Maternal Haplogroup of Emma Vining Richardson Williams

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Uncle Henry taking 23 and Me DNA with Karran Harper Royal A few weeks back my Uncle Henry Harrell took the 23 and Me DNA test with on...
Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Dr. Antoinette Harrell Analyzing Plantation Records on

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Dr. Antoinette Harrell reviewing records on a plantation Photo Credit: Walter C. Black, Sr. G enealogists and family historians unders...
Friday, September 29, 2017

Why Do I Research and Document African-American History in the East Florida Parishes, Louisiana?

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Dr. Antoinette Harrell researching at the Attala Library Photo Credit: Walter C. Black, Sr.  G rowing up as a young girl who enjoyed r...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Celebration of Life for Samuel Perry, Sr.

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Samuel Perry, Sr. S amuel Perry, was called home by God the Father on Friday, September 14, 2017. He was 61 years old. He was preceded ...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Tishann Woods Deemer Was a Midwife in Clinton, Louisiana

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Tishann Woods Deemer Photo Courtesy of Gwendolyn R. Carter T ishann was born in 1853 in Clinton, Louisiana  in a small community cal...

Celebration of Life for Earl Lee Richardson, Sr.

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Alpha: May 26, 1948.   Omega: September 17, 2017 E arl Lee Richardson, Sr was born on May 26, 1948, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to the ...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

Dr. Kingsley B. Garrison Recapping His Elementary School Years at Ponchatoula Colored School

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Dr. Kingsley B. Garrison E very time I visit with Dr. Kingsley B.  Garrison to gather more information for the Tangipahoa Parish Africa...

Utilizing Ancestry DNA to Locate Missing Relatives

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Karran Royal Harper and Henry Harrell DNA Testing M y great-grandfather, Alexander Harrell died in 1914, his youngest son Jasper was on...

Life Celebration of the Late Joseph Richardson

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Alpha: 1941--Omega 2017 D eacon Joseph Richardson was seventh of nine brothers and one sister born to the late Supt. Thomas Alexander R...
Saturday, September 16, 2017

Nurturing Our Roots Genealogy Oral History Collection

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Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Four African American Men Lynched in Ponchatoula, Louisiana

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Lynching Ponchatoula, Louisiana Photo Courtesy: Ponchatoula, Louisiana Photo Collection O n September 21, 1900, on an oak tree on Beec...
Friday, September 1, 2017

CO."B" 805 Pioneer Inf. U.S. A., A. E. F. Phil Garrison

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                      Phil Garrison served in WWII, he is the father of Dr. Kingsley B. Garrison. Last Roll  Phil Garrison Fourth man f...

Eugene Edwards Was Rented Out By His Father For Eight Dollars A Week

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Eugene Edward Photo Credit: Walter C. Black, Sr.  E ugene "Brother"  Edwards was born in 1923 in St. Helena Parish, Loui...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

A.M. Strange One of the Greatest Educational Leaders in Louisiana & Mississippi

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A .M. Strange given name, Armstead Mitchell Strange was born on Oct 14,  1884, in Waterproof, LA.,  to Tillman Benjamin Strange and   Mil...