I’ve added a new goal in my genealogy explorations: identifying the enslavers among my ancestors and, if possible, the people they enslaved.
Here’s my web page of what I’ve discovered so far.
Don’t expect a lot of updates. I pretty much have discovered all I can with a computer. The rest will have to come from an onsite visit to Kentucky. I’ll need to look through, if available:
- Tax records
- Property deeds
- Wills and Probate records
- Estate and inventory records
- Emancipation and Manumission records
- Slave registries
- Slave record books (slave sales)
- Slave Certificates (KY Certification of slaves sold in other states by slave dealers and brokers)
- Court records
Most of these public documents will be handwritten and they will be written in cursive English – NOT an easy thing to read. I also have no idea how cooperative clerk’s office staff is going to be, if they are going to have the time to help me, etc.
And right now, with the President wrecking the economy and prices through the roof and me not working… who knows when I’ll even be able to attempt this.
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