HONORING JUNETEENTH

Lineage Tracing & Community Storytelling Workshops- 901 Fayetteville St Durham, NC 27701

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JUNE 6, JUNE 13, JUNE 20, & JUNE/27 10AM – 12PM

(bring smartphone/laptop/iPad)

1. Session I Introduction                                                       6/6/26 Where’re your people from?

   1. Free account set up                                                   surnames, breaking brick walls

   2. Basic searches 101                                                     tracing your maternal lines

   3. Mapping 101​

2. Session II Databases & Archives                                      6/13/26 Reparations Eligibility 

   1. Census, birth/death certificates                                1860/1870/1880

   2. Marriage, baptism certificates                                   Find ancestral veterans

   3. Death records & wills

   4. Freedmen Bureau, USCT, veteran

3. Session III Other Databases & Resources                       6/20/26 Beyond DNA

   1. Slave ship manifests                                                   Find your African Ancestor, or

   2. Plantation records & wills                                          Cherokee great grandmother

   3. Dawes rolls, etc.

   4. Death records and periodicals

   5. Free Negro Registries

4. Session IV Complete Your Individual Tree                       6/27/26 Reclaiming Your Legacy

   1. Family tree

   2. Family archival keepsake

   3. Family narrative

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