PROJECTS

African American Church Cemeteries in DeKalb & Fulton Counties

Researched and published an inventory guide

South-View Cemetery Biographies

Researched bios of interred for the South-View Cemetery Foundation

1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Remembrance

2006 -- Partnered with the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot to conduct, research and trace African American victims' families to find descendants. The effort culminated with a Centennial Remembrance Weekend held in September 2006. (Articles accessed from Newspapers.com)

• "City's bloody stain seen with new eyes" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution article)
• "Walk into darkness" (AJC article)
• "Events in September will mark 1906 Atlanta riot" (AJC article)
• "A century later, a city remembers" (AJC article includes photo of AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter members Kenny Burton, Monica Hackney and Rhonda Barrow)
• "DEADLINE: How Atlanta's newspapers helped incite the 1906 race riot" (AJC article)
• "A too-muted 'Silence'" (AJC article)
• "Voices, images tell story of race riot 100 years ago" (AJC article)
• "GSU marks centennial of tragic race riot" (Atlanta Voice article)
• 2006 Centennial Remembrance -- Event Agenda
• "Race Riot Remembered" (AJC article)

2023 – Three Chapter member/researchers -- Janice Bryant, Sylvia Johnson and Rhonda Barrow (standing l-r in linked photo) -- participated in a panel discussion during a week-long Commemoration. View Sept 16-24 Days of Remembrance. View WABE-TV (PBS Ch. 30) documentary

2024 – Hosted a display table during the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Remembrance Theatrical Tour at Atlanta's South-View Cemetery on Saturday, September 21, 2024. Area actors portrayed historical African American figures buried there.

African American Funeral Programs

Collecting and indexing programs with local groups and repositories for online access

Honored U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) Graves in Marietta, GA National Cemetery

1940 U.S. Census

Indexed nearly 130,000 names in 2012 to make them searchable on FamilySearch.

Freedmen's Bureau Indexing

• Indexed 89,546 Names in Freedmen's Bureau Records for FamilySearch
• How to Find Ancestors
• SC, GA, FL Searches
• Freedmen's Bureau Offices (and Freedman's Bank) Locator Maps
• Smithsonian Transcription Project

Macedonia Cemetery Research

Researched interred in 2017 at Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery

WWII Netherlands Black Liberators

Researched "Finding the Descendants" of the 172 African American soldiers buried in Margraten (Details on our Members Only page)