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How Do You Prove Ancestry to Enslaved People?

This year, California’s government approved a plan to pay reparations to residents of the state who can show that they are descendants of those formerly enslaved. Seeking the evidence will be a process, genealogists say. Adrienne Abiodun knows she is a descendant of a once-enslaved man, named Phillip Branch. She knows the name of his …

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Catholic Order That Staffed Some Residential Schools in British Columbia to Hand Over Archives to Museum

Records that could offer insight into some residential schools in British Columbia are being handed over to the Royal B.C. Museum. The Sisters of Saint Ann staffed more than 30 residential schools in Alaska, Yukon and B.C. Archives, which include information about day schools, residential schools, hospitals and more, will be transferred to the museum. …

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Catholic Order That Staffed Some Residential Schools in British Columbia to Hand Over Archives to Museum

Records that could offer insight into some residential schools in British Columbia are being handed over to the Royal B.C. Museum. The Sisters of Saint Ann staffed more than 30 residential schools in Alaska, Yukon and B.C. Archives, which include information about day schools, residential schools, hospitals and more, will be transferred to the museum. …

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