Monday, August 9, 2021

Booker T. Lawson of Amite, Louisiana

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Booker Timsey. Lawson Courtesy of:  Mrs. Vernia Mcoy Booker Timsey Lawson, was a member of Grant Chapel A.M.E. Church for m most of his life...

Mrs. Clara Hollins Watts of Amite, Louisiana

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Mrs. Clara Hollins Watts Mrs. Clara  Hollins Watts was born about 1893 and died in 1981 in Amite, Louisiana. She was is buried in Butler Cem...

Mary Aaron of Amite, Louisiana

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Mary Aaron Mary Aaron was born around 1879 in Amite, Louisiana and died in 1962. She is buried in Butler Cemetery in Amite, Louisiana.  I us...

Alma "Mandy" Richardson Gordon of Amite, Louisiana

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Alma "Mandy" Richardson Gordon and son  Adam Gordon Alma was born in 1909 to the union of Thomas and Emma Vining Richardson in Mon...
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...