Spread The Word! We’re Having A Carnival!:-)
Good News! I am thrilled to see the Carnival of African-American Genealogy {CoAAG} come into fruition and honored to serve as its first Host!:-)
On March 19th Restore My Name – Slave Records and Genealogy Research, will kick-off the first of an ongoing series of African-American themed carnivals, intended to be a gathering place for the community to share and learn about African-American genealogy.
Our first CoAAG discussion theme will deal with how records of slave ownership are handled by the genealogy researcher. Contributors will be asked to write a blog post (at their own blogs) on one or more of the following aspects:
- What responsibilities are involved on the part of the researcher when locating names of slaves in a record?
- Does it matter if the record(s) are related to your ancestral lines or not?
- As a descendant of slave owners, have you ever been pressured by family not to discuss or post about records containing slave names?
- As a descendant of slaves, have you been able to work with or even meet other researchers who are descendants of slave owners?
- Have you ever performed a Random Act of Genealogical Kindness involving slave ownership records? Or were you on the receiving end of such kindness?
Submissions will be accepted starting today through March 12th 11:59 PM EST. Once you’ve created your blog post, use the blog carnival submission form to make sure it is included in the CoAAG post on 19 February 2010.
We’re also in search of hosts for future CoAAG Carnivals so if you have interest, please give me {@OurGeorgiaRoots} and/or GeneaBloggers {@GeneaBloggers} a *tweet*!:-)
If you’re new to carnivals and needing a quick “how to” so that you can join the fun, no worries — checkout these two resources:
We’ve all witnessed the benefit yielded from coming together as a community to openly share our varying perspectives around slavery and its impacts to both past and present culture.
Let’s commit to keeping this very relevant {and healing} dialogue going and use it as a catalyst to continue to grow and learn.
We must be the change we wish to see in the world ~ Mohandas Gandhi
Luckie.
I’m so excited about this carnival, Luckie! I’ll be sure to add it to my Calendar of Events for March!
Luckie,
I would love to say I’d be participating, but Lord knows I can’t commit to anything else. Know that I will be writing on my blog when I can on relevant topics, but I have no idea what would be relevant (I can hardly stick to daily themes.I will also be following this carnival closely and if I can easily write a timely blog on a topic posted, I will do so. This is my question, in the end, there’s this compilation…does that involve a plethora of blogs to read, or is the purpose of the carnival to be reference material?
Miriam – thank you for supporting CoAAG! The conversations over the past 2 weeks have meant alot to me & strengthened my connection to the geneablogging community. Looking forward to your post!:-)
Kathleen – my hope is that this particular CoAAG theme allows the open dialogue around the slave documentation to continue, and in the event there are documents to share, the contributor feels comfortable doing so.
If anything, the posts/comments have shown me that we ALL have a lot to share & learn from one another.
Excited to be involved in an event that will allow that to happen.
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Trackback by uberVU - social comments — 21 February 2010 @ 12:00 amI will continue to write about slave records and post them on my blog. I hope you read the last blog on Why Publish Slave Documentation. Of course I have not received any feedback.
I saw this on FB and this was the thing that kicked my but into wanting to blog again. I like seeing the CoAAG. I feel like i can contribute a lil more… hopefully.
[...] Descendants have responded to my call to action for the genealogy to share important slave data with their African-American research counterparts. Many more will show their support via the upcoming March 19th Carnival of African-American Genealogy: Restore My Name – Slave Records and Genealogy Research. [...]
Pingback by Madness Monday: The Digital Divide Revisited ~ Tough Love For The African-American Genealogy Community « Our Georgia Roots | Our Ancestors of Washington-Wilkes — 1 March 2010 @ 7:12 am[...] must admit, I’m stoked to host the first edition of the Carnival of African-American Genealogy (CoAAG), going live on Friday, Mar. [...]
Pingback by Madness Monday: Announcing A Week Of Carnival MADNESS At OGR!:-) « Our Georgia Roots | Our Ancestors of Washington-Wilkes — 8 March 2010 @ 11:17 amLuckie,
I love your website and as a white person (there I said it) who has slave owning ancestors I loved your “open letter” posting of 8 Feb. I have researched my family for nearly 20 years and in all of those years I have often wondered how I should show the record without making it seem as though I was proud of the fact.
Even when I started bloggin’ (3 weeks today), I was still wondering should I or shouldn’t post material that contains slave information. But now with this wonderful Carnival idea I have a perfect way to share the records I have found that could possibly help someone else. Great!
Keep up the great work!
[...] Genelaogy prompts us all to consider our individual roles in slave research. Luckie, our gracious carnival host, provides four topic areas to choose from for this initial go-round. I have chosen to blog about [...]
Pingback by Taneya’s Genealogy Blog » CoAAG Carnival: Research Connections — 12 March 2010 @ 6:01 pmLuckie
As someone new to genealogy and suddenly finding my roots are long and deep in this country, that also meant seeing an ancestor’s name on a list of slave owners and the conflict and physical revulsion of that discovery. I thought when I found Quakers in my line, that would at least be a line not involved in slavery , but that was the second place I found another list of slaves. You are offering an opportunity to make that into something useful and healing and a way to help someone find an ancestor and a name. Working together and letting this part of our heritage out into the light is the only way. I have a blog post in my draft file that I have been working on regarding my first discovery. I will have to finish it.
I’ve been so busy… can you believe I just learned of this carnival TODAY?? I’m afraid I’ll have to wait until the next edition to participate. It sounds wonderful, and I can already tell that this 1st edition is going to be a great success!
Thank you for bringing this to the geneablogging community!
Just want to say that I’ve been researching for years and have had the pleasure of being able to browse thousands of records pertaining to my family and never once thought about how hard it would be to trace my roots without them. I watch “Who Do You Think You Are?” tonight featuring Emmit Smith and it totally opened my eyes to your plight. I have yet to run into any anscestors whom I have found to be slave owners, however, if I ever do, this will be one of the first sites I come to with that information. Does this site consist only of Georgia roots or can any African family history be brought here?
I have no blog, and probably never will, but years ago I started doing an all-name index to administrator’s records for Smith County Tennessee and they have been posted on thenrootsweb site for Smith county. Rootsweb.com/~tnsmith I found reference to slaves on the early records and tried to index them in ways they could be found. They are under the name of the slave as well as “slave of…” and also the surname of the owner with slave following. I really wanted someone, anyone, trying to find a link to a slave ancestor to be able to use this tool and hopefully find some clues. Good luck in your searching, it can be frustrating and yet rewarding. diane
Diane — thank you for visiting OGR & participating. What you have described is truly an act of genealogical kindness. I’ve looked at the site & been unable to locate the index you referenced. If you can email me the link (luckiedaniels@gmail.com) I will make sure it gets posted.
Rachel — thank you just doesn’t seem quite appropriate. The Emmitt’s story was our story — so I felt like my Ancestors had their say last night too! It was an eye-opening experience & I appreciated the transparency from Lisa & NBC. They allowed the story to be told, as is. Feel free to bring any future findings here but know that we’ve created a web-presence to allow this dialogue & exchange to continue, after the Carnival leaves town! http://AFriendofFriends.com.
OGR Friends — I’ll have to find another word for you than AMAZING. As always, thanks for your support!:-)
Wendy – it sounds hokey but really, this is a full community effort. My charge to share documents could have gone unanswered or I could have been to concerned about the potential reaction & never posted the question.
We have really done something amazing together Friends. History in the making…
Luckie.
[...] new friend Diane, commented on the OurGeorgiaRoots blog regarding her indexing of slave names appearing in Smith County, Tennessee court administrators [...]
Pingback by AFoF Alert: Slaves Indexed in Smith Co., TN Administrators Records 1854-1877 | A Friend of Friends — 13 March 2010 @ 7:50 amDiane – Thanks! Found & posted ~ http://afriendoffriends.com/?p=214
Luckie.
Luckie– Congratulations and thanks for bringing this carnival into being! I am so far behind in my writing and work due to my surgical rehab that I missed your deadline for the first edition. But I will be a supporter and future participant.