S04 E01: Getting Your Mind & Spirit Right Prep For Enslaved Research

09/28/20 • 58 min

Researching enslaved ancestors is as challenging as it is rewarding. Unraveling a paper trail can be a herculean task all its own. However, there is an area of research preparation that isn’t widely discussed: the mental preparation required to engage in this kind of ancestral research.Researching enslaved ancestry can take its toll mentally and spiritually. In this first episode of Season 4 – we’ll talk you through ways you can mentally and spiritually prepare yourself for ultimately rewarding research that will reveal painful as well as poignant moments.GENEALOGY ADVENTURES LIVE! BOOK CLUBIn this episode, we also launched our Genealogy Adventures Book Club.The first book for you to read is:"The House of Bondage, or, Charlotte Brooks and Other Slaves, Original and Life Like, As They Appeared in Their Old Plantation and City Slave Life; Together with Pen-Pictures of the Peculiar Institution, with Sights and Insights into Their New Relations as Freedmen, Freemen, and Citizens" by Octavia V. Rogers Albert (New York: Hunt & Eaton, 1890)This book is free to read & download online via https://archive.org/details/housebondageorc00mallgoog?We'll be discussing this book on the show on Sunday, 24 January 2021

Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/genealogy-adventures.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/genealogy-adventures.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Previous Episode

S03 E33 GA Live: Race Relations & the Civil Rights Movement with documentarian Loki Mulholland

The award-winning documentarian Loki Mulholland joins the show to discuss the Civil Rights Movement, racism, and race relations in the USA.Loki Mulholland, a native of Virginia, is an award-winning filmmaker, and the son of Civil Rights legend Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. The show covers how the USA’s past is indeed connected to its present.

Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/genealogy-adventures.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Next Episode

S04 E02: The Slave Voyages Project with Dr. Nafees M. Khan

Introducing the Slaves Voyages Project with Nafees M. KhanThe Trans-Atlantic and Intra-American slave trade databases are the culmination of several decades of independent and collaborative research by scholars drawing upon data in libraries and archives around the Atlantic world. The Voyages website itself is the product of three years of development by a multi-disciplinary team of historians, librarians, curriculum specialists, cartographers, computer programmers, and web designers, in consultation with scholars of the slave trade from universities in Europe, Africa, South America, and North America.We were so pleased to welcome Nafees M. Khan to the show to talk about this amazing project that is essential for anyone researching the origins of their enslaved African lines.We cover the history of the project and how it came into being. We also delve into the content of the online database - and the details that each slave ship entry contains - the Trans-Atlantic slave trade... and so much more.Slave Yoages Project: https://www.slavevoyages.org/

Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/genealogy-adventures.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.