Finding a Place Called Home: A Guide to African-American Genealogy and Historical Identity - Softcover

Woodtor, Dee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 037570843X ISBN 13: 9780375708435

Publisher: Random House Reference &, 1999

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to AfricanAmerican history and genealogy shares uptodate advice on tracing a family's African roots, explaining how to use the Internet, census reports, and other records to trace a family tree. Reprint.

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About the Author

Dr. Dee Parmer Woodtor is an instructor at DePaul University's School for New Learning in Afro-American Family History and Genealogy and at Chicago's Newberry Library. She is the author of the children's book Big Meeting. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.

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h the kings of their ancestors so that the lives of the ancients might serve them as an example, for the world is old but the future springs from the past."
Mamadou Kouyate "Sundiata", An Epic of Old Mali, a.d. 1217-1257

Two major questions of the ages are: Who am I? and Where am I going? From the moment the first African slaves were dragged onto these shores, these questions have become increasingly harder for African-Americans to answer. To find the answers, you first must discover where you have been, you must go back to your family tree--but you must dig through rocky layers of lost information, of slavery--to find your roots.

During the Great Migration in the 1940s, when African-Americans fled the strangling hands of Jim Crow for the relative freedoms of the North, many tossed away or buried the painful memories of their past. As we approach the new millennium, African-Americans are reaching back to uncover where we have been, to help us determine wh

Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Reference &
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 037570843X
• ISBN 13: 9780375708435
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 499