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246 Years Project: Morven Park Works to Tell the Stories of the Enslaved

Their names and stories deserve to be known. That is the foundation of the 246 Years Project started by Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia seven years ago.  On Monday, the organizers debuted the fruits of that work—an online database that sheds light on the lives of enslaved people whose records of existence were largely limited to property …

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246 Years Project: Morven Park Works to Tell the Stories of the Enslaved

Their names and stories deserve to be known. That is the foundation of the 246 Years Project started by Morven Park in Leesburg, Virginia seven years ago.  On Monday, the organizers debuted the fruits of that work—an online database that sheds light on the lives of enslaved people whose records of existence were largely limited to property …

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FREE Online Webinar – “Editing Your Own Writing – Part 1”

This announcement was written by the Board for Certification of Genealogists: FREE Board for Certification of Genealogists -Sponsored Webinar “Editing Your Own Writing – Part 1”  by Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGG, FASG, FNGS, FUGA Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 8:00 p.m. (EDT)  Genealogists write. Their written narratives include stories of ancestral families, biographies of individual …

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