Past Event
Courthouse Research: Using Probate Records to Research Enslaved Ancestors
- Saturday, February 6, 2021
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Highlights from the Event
Join LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, who will share best practices in using probate and other estate records to identify potential slaveholders. If you have identified the names of ancestors born during slavery and have stalled in your research, this lecture will help prepare you to break through the 1870 brick wall.