How do you identify an ancestor when the record gives only one name? These 10 strategies show how location, age, maternal kinship, associates, estates and successive returns can reconstruct enslaved families through a network of evidence.
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Nearly 4 Million Enslavement Records Are Now Searchable
Nearly four million records from 20 former British colonies are now searchable online. Learn how to trace one-name ancestors, follow mothers and children across returns, identify estates, and continue the search into post-emancipation records.