In this video Martine Brennan describes the resources available to aid in the research of enslaved ancestors. For more details, see the section titled “Researching Enslaved Populations” in the right margin of this website.
Continue reading How to Research Enslaved AncestorsHow to Add Slave Schedule Information to your Tree
In this video, Martine Brennan describes the basic steps for processing into your Beyond Kin Tree the information you find in the U.S. Federal Census Slave Schedules of 1850 and 1860.
Continue reading How to Add Slave Schedule Information to your TreeCreating a Beyond Kin Tree—The Basics
In this video, Martine Brennan describes the basic steps for creating a Beyond Kin tree, using a runaway advertisement. For more details, see Setting up a Beyond Kin Group.
Continue reading Creating a Beyond Kin Tree—The BasicsThe BKP Research Directory
Many thanks to BKP’er Martine Brennan for creating this video with instructions on how to add an entry about your research to the BKP Research Directory. With the directory, we hope to connect researchers with each other and with the descendants of the people they are researching.
Continue reading The BKP Research DirectoryThe Beyond Kin Project and FamilySearch
We created the Beyond Kin Project (BKP) method with the idea that it would be portable to most online trees and desktop genealogical software environments. So far that has been true in all environments but one: FamilySearch.
Continue reading The Beyond Kin Project and FamilySearchFrazine Taylor on the Beyond Kin Project
I have helped people of all ethnic backgrounds to research their family history for over 25 years. However I have witnessed firsthand the frustration and disappointment of African-Americans when the research gets to the year of 1870, and for some, 1866, where they hit the predictable “brick wall.” You can’t go around it, get under it, or go through it, because there is no hope or help! Continue reading Frazine Taylor on the Beyond Kin Project
Donna Baker on the Beyond Kin Project
We gravitate to genealogy by its promise to reveal our family’s story. In pursuing my own story, I have noticed with sympathy that my African American friends had a much harder time of it. I was encountering my own brick walls, but nothing compared to theirs. It was unfortunate, but it never crossed my mind that I could do anything about it. Continue reading Donna Baker on the Beyond Kin Project