Recall, last month America celebrated Juneteenth (i.e., June 19th, the date the Emancipation Proclamation was announced in Texas) as a federal holiday for the third year. I wrote during that week that my family had a few questions that we wanted to research, and I want to share with you what we discovered. First I’ll give a shortContinueContinue reading “Juneteenth 2023: Part Two”
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Reconstructing the Life of George Wheaton: Part I
Extract from the Reconstructed Constitution of the State of Louisiana with Portraits of the Distinguished Members of the Convention and Assembly; Lithograph, 1868; The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1979.183. Retrieved from http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/17819. Recently, my family and I took a vacation that we called our “Civil Pursuits Trip”. We visited Civil War and Civil Rights sites in Mississippi, Alabama,ContinueContinue reading “Reconstructing the Life of George Wheaton: Part I”
The Genealogy Griot 