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Genealogically Speaking

Posted onAugust 22, 2024September 5, 2024

Vicki McGill has had the pleasure of sharing genealogical information and participated in panel discussions on various historic topics. Getting Started with Lowcountry Genealogy (Seminar) The Lemon Project Blog Black History: Local, Living, and Imaginative Descendant Stories — A Lemon’s Legacies Porch Talk with Vicki Read More …

CategoriesEmancipation, Enslavement, Family History, Genealogy, HIstory

40 Acres and a Lie

Posted onAugust 6, 2024August 6, 2024

Professional genealogist Vicki McGill worked on 40 Acres and a Lie – a 2 year long research project, with the Center for Public Integrity, exploring what we know as 40 Acres and a Mule a government program offering land to formerly enslaved people just after Read More …

CategoriesEmancipation, Enslavement, Family History, Genealogy, HIstory, UncategorizedTagsAfrican American, Jim Crow

On Lynching…A Memorial

Posted onJuly 4, 2018July 5, 2018

Recently had the opportunity to visit The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. The memorial recognizes lynching in the United States – more than 4,000 lynchings of African Americans – those that have been found through Read More …

CategoriesHIstory, TravelTagsAfrican American, Alabama, Jim Crow, Life In This Skin, Lynching, Montgomery

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