Did you enjoy the extra video? If you're interested in learning more about how to research records for persons of color in the US, check out this video! kzread.info/dash/bejne/pIh2zdJ-fMKoms4.html -Diana, Genealogy TV Staff

Love how she tied in so much history to her research. I learned a lot.

I love Nicka. Ive seen all of her videos on Black Pro Gen Live which helped me find my 3X great grandparents on an estate inventory. Im currently searching the Freedmens Bureau records for another line. My 2X great grandfather was a US Colored Troop and I found him on a Bounty Register from 1869 getting paid $90 ($1,826 in today's money) The record collection is MASSIVE and you have to get your mind right before you start searching lol

@GenealogyTV

7 ай бұрын

Agreed. Got to love Nicka Smith!

Wow! What an extreme advancement in ancestry. Because I have had a hard time with my searching. Prayerfully this will help me more. Thank you. Amen

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you.

@MarissaN75

8 ай бұрын

Hey baby,I agree. Love you

Amazing info! The story about lightening on a mule, caught my attention because my maternal grandma told me the same story. Her first beau met the same fate. He was leaving her house to go home and was struck in front of her as he got on his mule, in 1930. Wild coincidence.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

That is wild.

This is amazing. I have tried to help many African American friends with their family history and always hit that wall. This Freedman Bank/Bureau will help tremendously.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

They are great records. Search the FAN club members too, primarily the family members.

So exciting! I had the opportunity to take a the Texas Institute of Genealogical Research (TIGR) class on "African Americans in the South" this past summer. It was FABULOUS! Led by Ari Wilkins, with other fantastic instructors. If the class is offered again, it would significantly help you in your research of enslaved individuals. If you live near Dallas visit Ari at the Dallas Central Library - she's a wonderful resource.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds great! Thanks for sharing. I was not aware of TIGR.

Love your videos!! This is fascinating! It’s Christmas Day and I’m soaking in your info. Kudos to the guest - so inspiring.

I get sad going down my tree. Through one relative, I was able to go back all the way to the early 1500s. Sweden, Netherland & Germany are where they migrated from. I saw family their family crest and stories of their journey to the Americas. It's extremely hard to find my indigenous lineage. Going through the paper work is so discouraging 😭 there's so many people with my Grandfather's x4 first and last name.

Wow this was extremely informative, and will be so helpful when I'm helping a friend with her ancestry. You've taught me to look via the card catalogue, I cannot thank you enough for all this wonderful advice! ❤

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Anna

Great information!

Thank you. Love the explanations. I will be digging through these for clues.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you find something

I really love your videos.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them! Thanks for becoming a Channel Member and helping to support the channel.

Fantastic! Thank you for this valuable information.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Thank you so much for this! You have a new subscriber!

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the sub!

Very informative. I am currently searching these records on ancestry for my African American ancestors. I was hoping you would one day get Nicka as a guest. I really enjoyed.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Super. Thanks.

Some great information .

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

This was a very informative video.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Amazing!

Great video. I love how passionate she is.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Love this video. Might be my favorite of yours so far. Love when history is sprinkled. Funny how I didn’t like it in school. But then again that’s a structured what they want you to know type history. Love that they’re hintable!!! Are the images on there as well? Instead of just a name index? It’s good there’s a name indexed but without the image you can really know for sure it’s the one you’re looking for.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

I have not played with every record set, but I have seen images on Ancestry too. If you don't find an image, FamilySearch also has these records, and might have the image... but they are not indexed on FS.

Amazing channel 😊 a lot of historical information.

@GenealogyTV

3 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

This is invaluable

@GenealogyTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

This is good stuff.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@Great Thank You

Hello, I really enjoy your videos. And always find a bunch of information that I don't know anything about. I have a request please. Could you please make a video on how to access prison records. In the current time period, or at least 30 to 40 years ago. Thank you very much. Jan D

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Watch this video about prison records. It's a long one, sorry. kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGmrz9SdisWcoJM.html

@jandavis1362

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV thank you so much for the prison records video. I shall watch it later this evening.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

👍

@jandavis1362

2 жыл бұрын

I was totally astonished by the prison records video. First it was a stunning tale with so much information presented and a complete breakdown of a complex methodology that I got lost several times when I got caught up in the storyline and had to go back and concentrate on the actual sources used to obtain the facts. It was definitely a sad story but the methods and resource trails she laid out and followed, from start to finish were fantastic. I find that I have now been thru that presentation three times and am still not sure that I have completely recorded all of the information and the methods used to complete the storyline. It is an absolute stunning video. And to be able to use so many of the resources to follow a story that was so old was a mind blower. It was a great presentation and full of lots of information. I will keep it in my notes for all future endeavors. Thank you so much for the help.

What website would you recommend for Greece records.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good question. I'm not super familiar with doing research in Greece... but anytime I'm not sure, I go to the Card Catalog on Ancestry. If you are an Ancestry member, you can go to the Search tab, drop down to Card Catalog, then on the left side, scroll down and choose Europe, then Greece. You will get a list of records they have that may contain records for Greece. Here is a direct link. www.ancestry.com/search/collections/catalog/?cursor=2|25|CIAABM0AAHuu|CIAABM0AAHnh&location=5097_1652381 Also on FamilySearch www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Greece_Genealogy

Nice. Are they indexed?

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

On Ancestry, yes.

@sr2291

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV Thank you. :)

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. My pleasure.

What would you suggest for english surname search circa. 1900 from Spanish Honduras. I'm searching for my father who immigrated to the US.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Take a DNA test. Guessing it your father’s surname would be like searching for a teeny tiny needle in a haystack.

@michellejosephs2274

2 жыл бұрын

@@GenealogyTV I took the Ancestry DNA test it comes back Italian with 2nd Italian second cousins. I have a sister who. Hasn't taken a test. We don't know if she's full sister or not. It seems our mother may have seen an untimely death. I have received any response from NYC on the Coroner's in 2yrs. My father seems to have died 1 month prior.

My question is who held the rightsto the records all this time?

So, a little to the left of freedman records.. my ancestors owned a pretty good number of slaves. One of them shows up in the Greene Co, Ga 1850 tax records living next to (probably on the property) of my 4x great grandfather as a FPOC. She is 75, born in Virginia. My 6x great grandfather came from Va to Georgia in 1790, so Im guessing she was brought with him as she shows up in his will with her and her 3 children being given to my 5x great grandfather. A lot of the court documents are unindexed, so before I spend hours and hours looking through pre 1850 court minutes, which courts should I be looking in for documents on freeing an enslaved individual? I have looked through everyone's estate papers with a fine toothed comb and documented all of them, but the last mention of her is an a 1853 tax record. In my 5x great grandfathers will he 5 of his slaves pick who they could live with, 2 of her remaining children are amongst them. She and her children were obviously special individuals to my family, so Im trying to dig up as many documents on her as I can.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good question. If it was before emancipation, then it might be in court related documents following the probate of the will. If it was after emancipation, then I don't know that there would be any documents as all enslaved were freed by order of law. If you have a last name associated with the enslaved then you could attach them to your tree as a floating tree or who they were living with as an unrelated person. You could also tag them with the MyTreeTags which might help others to find them.

I thought they already had records on ancestry? I’ve searched the 1865-1875 or whatever date it was and gotten a result. Unless it was diff. What’s diff with this than the one that they already have?

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

The index. FamilySearch had the images, but no index... so you had to scroll image by image.

Can't seem to find much for Texas.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry

@whoisnickasmith

2 жыл бұрын

There were field offices in Texas, but they were decently spaced apart. My suggestion is to start with just a name search instead of qualifying it with an exact location.

@lcooperhunter

2 жыл бұрын

@@whoisnickasmith Thank you.

@GenealogyTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Nicka!

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