Monthly Archive:: March 2020
26 Mar 2020
Fee Tails and Entailment
By Aaron Goodwin On 26 March 2020 In Uncategorized
In her 1989 NGSQ article, “The Adeustone-Rogers Families of Virginia: Tracing a Colonial Lineage through Entailment and Naming Patterns,” the late Margaret Hickerson Emery provided a definition of the term that was key to solving her genealogical
26 Mar 2020
Taking Your First Steps Around the 1870 “Brick Wall” in African American Research
By Aaron Goodwin On 26 March 2020 In Uncategorized
For African Americans who were enslaved until the 13th Amendment was passed in 1865, the 1870 census was the first federal census to name them. Since the slave schedules of the 1850 and 1860 censuses only referred