Yesterday we had an amazing presentation at church by one of our members, Dr Darrell Walden from the University of Richmond, about a project he spearheaded, the Virginia Freedman Project, and the subsequent extraction and preservation of geneaological records of former slaves in the Confederate states. The Freedmen's Bureau records are effectively the "genesis records" of African-American identity post Civil War. They provide the earliest major compilation of information on the African-Amer... read more