Articles on genealogical and DNA-related topics.
-
The time I actually was connected to the global family tree
This story starts with the Pegues family. I’ve been working on adding the ancestors, descendants, and extended family of Paris Boyd Pegues to WikiTree ever since I ran across him while researching the descendants of a half great-granduncle of mine. I wrote about what I’d been able to glean about his life (and the lives…
-
Paris Boyd Pegues (1898-1927)
Paris Boyd Pegues was the youngest child (of nine) of Isaiah Pegues and Fannie (Ivy) Pegues in Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States. Paris married Flossie Avant (~1902-1979) around 1919 (based on their eldest child’s birth year). Their daughter Willie Vance Pegues was born January 16th, 1920. Paris and his family moved to Memphis, Tennessee around…
-
What is the USBH Project and why should you care?
USBH stands for United States Black Heritage, a project on WikiTree. Its objectives are: It’s a sub-project under the United States Project and the Global Black Heritage Project. See the quarterly newsletter or USBH Project calendar for more information about activities and how to get involved.
-
The Enslaved of Reuben Strozier of Meriwether County, Georgia
Before I became interested in genealogy my cousin told me that she’d researched our family. She said she’d discovered the plantation where some of our ancestors had been enslaved. My maternal grandmother’s birth surname was Strozier and that is not a common name in the US. It was ranked #14,599 in 2010. (In comparison, my…
-
US Slave Narrative: John Henry Logan
As part of my training to become a member of the United States Black Heritage (USBH) Project on WikiTree I worked on a slave narrative that was created from a 1938 interview with someone from the United States Work Projects Administration (Federal Writers’ Project). Though there are criticisms about some of the narratives being rewritten…
-
The Pegues Family
I’ve been researching an African-American Pegues family and adding its members to WikiTree for a few months now. I do this in collaboration with another WikiTree member, Emma MacBeath, who began working on the family first at the request of a third party. The roots of people with this surname are typically in North Carolina…