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S06 E18: What's Coming Up In Women's History Month
Introducing Women’s History Month on Genealogy Adventures. In previous seasons we celebrated Women’s History Month with stories and histories of women who moved mountains and broke through barriers…landing their names in the history books.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9DVJrFv8v8%5B/embedyt%5D
We’re doing something a little bit different this month. Instead, we’re featuring unsung heroes…
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S06 E17: Breaking Down Barriers: The Growth of African Americans from Slavery to Now
It’s 2023 and African Americans continue breaking down barriers as we still show others who we are and what we can do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBIyBQvuX_g%5B/embedyt%5D
Brian and Donya had a wide-ranging discussion about how African Americans broke through various historic barriers – and continue to do so to this day. They talked about the accomplishments of African Americans regardless…
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S06 E16: Forensic Genealogy for Cold Case Research
Forensic genealogy for cold case research is amongst the saddest, humbling – and yet ultimately rewarding – type of genealogy there is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9OnWz09X6M%5B/embedyt%5D
The Genealogy Adventures team, led by Donya Williams, is consulting on its first forensic genealogy case. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Department in Florida reached out to Donya regarding its Cold Case…
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S06 E15: The 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt with Ja'el "YaYa" Gordon and John McCusker
One of the biggest misconceptions that our African American children are most ashamed of is the concept that our ancestors didn’t fight back. This is where the phrase “I am not my ancestor” comes from. They are not taught that our enslaved did fight back, The 1811 Louisiana Slave Revolt was one example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Myd0Mfhrr0%5B/embedyt%5D
It was the largest slave…
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S06 E14: African American Entrepreneurs: Introducing Kinkofa
This Sunday we spoke with African American entrepreneurs Jourdan & Tameshia who are the founders of Kinkofa – the only digital family history platform intentionally designed to reconnect Black families.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nW6Igyp3lc%5B/embedyt%5D
Jourdan & Tameshia spoke about the autosomal DNA test transfer tool they created in-house – a tool that connects African Americans…
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S06 E13: Why Is Black History So Threatening?
We talked about how Conservatives believe that when it comes to teaching Black History, only teaching up to Emancipation is sufficient. Black Americans know that our historical troubles in the United States extend far beyond Emancipation and into the present. So why is Black history so threatening that everything after Emancipation needs to be…
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African American Genealogy: A Professional African American Researcher's Practice
African American Genealogy: A Professional African American Researcher’s Practice
Arthur Rothstein: African American Family at Gee’s Bend, Alabama, 1837 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection Open Access
Researching families separated by slavery is a daunting and time-consuming task. There is no way around that and I would be lying if I said anything different. Researching people who were documented with just one name, their first name, and identifying their enslaver, is…
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S06 E12: Enslaved Research: Researching Moses Williams, Sr of North Carolina & South Carolina
S06 E12: Enslaved Research: Researching Moses Williams, Sr of North Carolina & South Carolina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-pvJOQqVe4%5B/embedyt%5D
When the enslaved Moses Williams, Sr. died in 1884, he was possibly one of South Carolina’s last links to the American Revolutionary War. He was the father of 45 enslaved children – 5 boys and 40 girls – by two wives. Born in 1769…he was a 115-years old when he died. With so many descendants in the Old Ninety-six region of South Carolina,…
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S06 E11: Genealogy Adventures Special: Celebrating 10 Seasons of Relative Race
S06 E11: Genealogy Adventures Special: Celebrating 10 Seasons of Relative Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8hTGOHG8AA%5B/embedyt%5D
10 seasons is an accomplishment for any tv show. And kudos go to the Relative Race production team (and its contestants) for creating 10 seasons of riveting and unforgettable moments.
Genealogy Adventures hosted its first 90-minute TV special on e360tv, taking a behind-the-scenes look at the award-winning BYUtv show Relative Race.…
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S06 E10: Relative Race: Where are They Now? with Anitra Louis
S06 E10: Relative Race: Where are They Now? with Anitra Louis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw-rI7-ya9I%5B/embedyt%5D
The BYU TV show Relative Race brings family history to life in an exciting reality competition series. With a $50,000 grand prize up for grabs, 4 teams compete on a 10-day, cross-country road trip to find their long-lost relatives. In each episode, close relatives work as teams to speedily navigate unfamiliar places, complete challenges…
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S06 E09: Documenting the Extinction of mtDNA & YDNA Lineages and Surnames
S06 E09: Documenting the Extinction of mtDNA & YDNA Lineages and Surnames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjF2pcdEsj0%5B/embedyt%5D
At some point in your genealogy research, you will find a family line that died out. Or a male YDNA line or female mtDNA line became extinct. Or instances of pedigree collapse. Should genealogists note instances like these in our family trees? If so – how should this be noted?
Brian and Donya talked about Y-DNA, mtDNA, and surname…
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S06 E08: Life after Twitter: Preserving Genealogy Social Networks
S06 E08: Life after Twitter: Preserving Genealogy Social Networks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1WCLkxU5G4%5B/embedyt%5D
Genealogists spend a lot of time stressing the importance of preserving records and resources that documented our ancestors’ lives for future generations.
Until recent events at Twitter, we haven’t really thought about the supportive and respectful social media networks and communities we have built. They are just as important. As we…
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S06 E07: Black Homesteaders of the South With Bernice Alexander Bennett
S06 E07: Black Homesteaders of the South With Bernice Alexander Bennett
The Homestead Act of 1862, the Emancipation Proclamation, and subsequent Reconstruction amendments didn’t just abolish slavery-they gave African Americans a chance to earn a living and own land.
Even though their names were never mentioned alongside the other rugged heroes of frontier lore, a startling number of homesteaders were Black men and women in the South, toiling on familiar land but now…
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S06 E06: Researching John Yeldell - Black Voter Suppression & The Man who put SC on Trial in 1889
S06 E06: Researching John Yeldell – Black Voter Suppression & The Man who put SC on Trial in 1889
Present-day Black voter suppression in the United States is nothing new. The U.S. has a long and sordid history of suppressing the Black vote through intimidation, legislation, and violence.
The Mid-term Elections day is here – and Black Americans have returned once more to an age of fighting to engage in our Constitutionally-given civic duty once again. This time rights are there for all – and…
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S06 E05: Black Cemeteries: History Ignored with Dr. Antionette Jackson (Black Cemetery Network)
S06 E05: Black Cemeteries: History Ignored with Dr. Antionette Jackson (Black Cemetery Network)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9m2JMeB2lU%5B/embedyt%5D
Cemeteries, as we know them in the U.S., began to appear around the 1830s. So it is safe to assume that during that time just like people of color were segregated while living it was also done in their death. So, we were responsible for the care of our burial grounds which were more than likely connected to a church and were voluntarily…
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S06 E04: Relative Race - Where Are They Now with Raymond Campbell & J D Barnes
S06 E04: Relative Race – Where Are They Now with Raymond Campbell & J D Barnes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmuIfsYnQvU%5B/embedyt%5D
BYU TV’s show “Relative Race” is a game where four teams are taken on a 10-day whirlwind race around the USA to find their families.
Competitors Raymond Campbell and J D Barnes from Series 6 – one of the most emotional series to date – joined us to talk about their emotional rollercoaster of a journey.
For more information about…
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S06 E03: Black Homesteaders of the Midwest with Richard Edwards and Jacob Friefeld
S06 E03: Black Homesteaders of the Midwest with Richard Edwards and Jacob Friefeld
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je8Fw9b3YGs%5B/embedyt%5D
The migration of our families is an important thing to know when researching your family. Historians and researchers talk so much about Black families in the South migrating to the North – but they also migrated to the West and Midwest.
African Americans successfully homesteaded in all the Great Plains states; building successful small…
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