I couldn’t resist poking around in the new collection of Slave Manifests on Ancestry.com which went up this week. So what’s interesting about the new Slave Manifest records? Plenty! They are inbound and outbound records from the Port of New Orleans during the period of time when the Deep South was gearing up for the… Read more
What’s the first thing you do when you get your hands on Grandpa’s yearbook? You look for his picture, right? You want to see what he looked like as a teenager. What did the other kids look like back then? What did people write in the margins to him? Were his old girlfriends in there?… Read more
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