In many ways, the overgrown cemetery on a South Carolina rice plantation where my paternal ancestors are buried is emblematic of Black history itself. On my first visit in 2013, I went in search of the Fields family graves. There I found many unmarked graves, some of them nothing more than sunken depressions, as far …
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First Global Collection for Tracing British Home Children Launched by Findmypast
The following is a press release issued by Home Children Canada: New collaboration between Canadian and UK organisations sees creation of first major collection of records pertaining to Home Children Over 130,000 British children were sent to British Overseas Territories as part of forced migration scheme between 1860s and 1970s Offered for free, the records will …
First Global Collection for Tracing British Home Children Launched by Findmypast
The following is a press release issued by Home Children Canada: New collaboration between Canadian and UK organisations sees creation of first major collection of records pertaining to Home Children Over 130,000 British children were sent to British Overseas Territories as part of forced migration scheme between 1860s and 1970s Offered for free, the records will …