Chapter Volunteers Help 2023 GPB-TV Pledge Drive
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African American Church Cemeteries in DeKalb & Fulton Counties
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Researched and published an inventory guide
South-View Cemetery Biographies
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Researched bios of interred for the South-View Cemetery Foundation
1906 Atlanta Race Riot (Massacre) Commemoration
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2006 -- We 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)
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African American Funeral Programs
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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
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Indexed nearly 130,000 names in 2012 to make them searchable on FamilySearch.
Freedmen's Bureau Indexing
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- 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
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Researched interred in 2017 at Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery
WWII Netherlands Black Liberators
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Researched "Finding the Descendants" of the 172 African American soldiers buried in Margraten (Details on our Members Only page)