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.

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.

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.

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.