{"id":1541,"date":"2026-04-10T06:29:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:29:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:29:05","slug":"enslavers-in-my-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2026\/04\/10\/enslavers-in-my-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Enslavers in My Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve added a new goal in my genealogy explorations: identifying the enslavers among my ancestors and, if possible, the people they enslaved. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coyotebroad.com\/family\/enslavers.shtml\">my web page of what I&#8217;ve discovered so far<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don&#8217;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&#8217;ll need to look through, if available:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tax records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Property deeds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wills and Probate records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Estate and inventory records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Emancipation and Manumission records<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slave registries<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slave record books (slave sales)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slave Certificates (KY Certification of slaves sold in other states by slave dealers and brokers)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Court records<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of these public documents will be handwritten and they will be written in cursive English &#8211; NOT an easy thing to read. I also have no idea how cooperative clerk&#8217;s office staff is going to be, if they are going to have the time to help me, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And right now, with the President wrecking the economy and prices through the roof and me not working&#8230; who knows when I&#8217;ll even be able to attempt this.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a new goal in my genealogy explorations: identifying the enslavers among my ancestors and, if possible, the people they enslaved. Here&#8217;s my web page of what I&#8217;ve discovered so far. Don&#8217;t expect a lot of updates. I pretty much have discovered all I can with a computer. The rest will have to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}