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APaul52992
APaul52992@apaul
Site Feedback·13 days ago·Discussion

Welcome!

Howdy researchers! I am so delighted to get started uncovering the past with you.

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BandoOneBillion
BandoOneBillion@bandoonebillion
Success Stories·3 months ago·Discussion

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Ada Mercer@adatraces
Success Stories·3 months ago·Share a Find

Found my 3x-great-grandfather in the Creek Agency licenses!

After months of dead ends, there he was — Thomas Crowell, licensed to trade in the Creek Agency in 1822. The remarks even name who signed it. I cried at my desk. Sharing the record here in case the name means something to anyone else.

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Thomas Crowell — Creek Agency License, 1822

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Ada Mercer@adatraces
Research Help·3 months ago·Research Help

Brick wall: connecting Sandy Perryman to a manumission record

I have a 'Sandy Perryman (a free black)' in the 1832 Creek census at Chehawah. The AI related-records tool surfaced a manumission where a Perryman Wesley freed an enslaved man named Sandy. Is that enough to say it's the same person? How would you document the leap?

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Marcus Dabney@marcusroots
General Discussion·3 months ago·Discussion

What record finally broke YOUR brick wall?

Mine was an inspection roll — a single line with a name and a port. Changed everything. What was the document that cracked your family story open? Let's swap stories.

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Marcus Dabney@marcusroots
Site Feedback·3 months ago·Discussion

The new AI related records are genuinely impressive

It surfaced a connection across two collections that I'd have never searched for — a name in one record's remarks matched another entirely. Whatever you all did under the hood, thank you.

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Ada Mercer@adatraces
Research Help·3 months ago·Research Help

Tips for tracing surnames adopted after manumission?

Several folks in my tree seem to have taken a former enslaver's surname after being freed. What sources help confirm that pattern beyond a shared last name?

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BandoOneBillion
BandoOneBillion@bandoonebillion
Research Help·12 months ago·Discussion

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BandoOneBillion@bandoonebillion
Research Help·12 months ago·Discussion

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