Saturday, August 7, 2021

Adam Gordon on the Farm in Amite, Louisiana

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Adam Gordon Adam Gordon was the son of Willie K. Gordon, Sr. and Alma "Mandy Richardson Gordon. Before joining the military during the ...

Bernard Temple the First Child in Louisiana Takes the African Ancestry DNA Test

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Bernard Temple  Mailing his African Ancestry DNA Test  Bernard was the first child to take the African Ancestry DNA to learn more about his ...
Friday, August 6, 2021

Amite No. 1 Church Of God In Christ

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Annie Richardson Vining the Daughter of Thomas and Amanda Breland Richardson

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Annie Richardson Vining Photo Courtesy: Antoinette Harrell Annie Richardson Vining was the daughter of Thomas Richardson and Amanda Breland ...

Thomas Willie Richardson: Son of Thomas and Emma Louise Gordon

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Thomas Willie Richardson and wife Mytle Johnson Photo Courtesy: Karmaede1 My maternal great grandfather Thomas S. Richardson met and married...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

Script from Lumber Mills Operating in the Louisiana Florida Parishes

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Script from the Lumber Mills in the Louisiana Florida Parishes Lumber town generally emerged in isolated locations far removed from the main...

The Bond That Keep Family Together

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There isn't that many photographs of my maternal grandmother Josephine Richardson Harrell and her siblings. This photo was taken at her ...
Monday, August 2, 2021

Using Social Media to Identify Photographs

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Photo Courtesy: Juanita Harrell Stewart Collection Cheryl Lyn Clark, Carmen Clark, Vear Roscoe Rudolph Clay, Roemary Dennis, Cassie Johnson,...
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Friday, July 30, 2021

Tangipahoa Parish Proclaim October at Family History Month

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Mason Foster, Former Mayor of Hammond, LA Reginald Goldsby,  Former Mayor of Amite, LA Antoinette Harrell, Local Historian and Genealogist D...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

Clifford Wheat of Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana

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Clifford Wheat Photo Courtesy: Joyce Lafonta Clifford was born on October 16, 1904, in Amite, Louisiana. He was born to John and Delia Wheat...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Eric Williams and Jeremy Collins

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Photograph of African-American Students in the Fajoni Lanier

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I would like to know what school this photograph was taken at. There is no little information and pictures on the African-American schools b...

Children Photographs in the Lanier Fajoni Collection

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This folder was labeled as "children" I didn't find a lot of images in that files. I shared the ones I did find. If anyone kno...

African American Images of Men in the Lanier Fajoni Photograph Collection

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 If anyone recognize any of the men in these photographs. Please contact me by email at; nurturingourroots@gmail. com 

African-American Women Pictures in the Lanier Fajoni Collection

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Unidentified African-American Photographs Lanier Fajoni Collection

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Two decades ago, I met a woman by the name of Phylis in Amite, Louisiana. Phylis was teacher at that time. She also wrote a column for the l...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Britten Family Unidentified Photograph Collection at the Louisiana State Archives

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Britten Family Collection Louisiana State Archives Photo Credit: Dr. Antoinette Harrell There are many unidentified photographs in the Britt...

Unidentified African-American Photographs at Louisiana State Archives in the Britten Collection

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Unidentified Source: Louisiana State Archives Last week while conducting genealogy research at the Louisiana State Archives in Baton Rouge, ...

Louisiana State Archives Genealogy Research

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Eric Williams  Louisiana State Archives Research Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell One of the lessons I wanted to teach Eric Williams was how...

Teaching Others to Find Their Ancestors Before 1870

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Eric Williams Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell Anyone researching their family lineage can tell you that it could be very challenging and ti...