Research At The National Archives And Beyond!

You researched your family back to the county where they were living right after enslavement;  located white people in the community with the same surnames and found wills associated with their family. In addition, you may also (or instead) utilize DNA information to lead you to a specific family that held enslaved people. You have done the work of finding records of people and sometimes families linked to a place or maybe two places in time but there is no centralized or searchable place for us to leave those records for others. This discussion will focus on:     • Records that are kept at the County level     • Why enslaved people may use the surnames of the seller, buyer, the grantors or the grantees or another name altogether     • Finding enslaved people that may be sold across the county or state lines      • Searching for a family member that may have been split up Sasha Mitchell is a family and community historian, former chair of African American Heritage for Asheville & B