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Former Slave Obituaries
I have now added more than 100 items to the album of former slave obituaries.
https://www.familysearch.org/photos/gallery/album/729028
I will also be adding slave narratives to the collection.
if anyone else wants to help me find items of a similar nature - by using google or newspapers.com or various other on line resources - it would be appreciated.
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Wow @Dennis J Yancey ‼️ What a wonderful thing to do‼️ Great job‼️‼️‼️ 🤷🏻♀️I dont know🤷🏻♀️ if this will be helpful or not, but a while back I started clipping newspapers items and saving pages when I would see ads for slave sales, and I also have misc clippings of news items relating to African Americans such as crazy stories or murders and trials etc. pls lmk if any of this would fit anywhere or be useful for your project. I don’t have any of it really organized in any particular fashion but I can try to gather it up and send to you or whatever... just let me know.
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feel free to send anything my way
djyancey1965@gmail.com
thanks
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and to continue the thread. . .
yes many people clip or collect items like this - or a hundred different other subjects . But the benefit of such work - is highly magnified - when we do more than just let such collected items "collect dust" on our computer hard drive or inside our smart phone.
Rather - creating FS Memories albums and person tagging such items makes these valuable items so much more accessible to those who would really treasure it. note that items can be uploaded in large batches even as large as 100 items at a single upload.
in my humble opinion. . . if a person is willing to go through the often tedious work of collecting such items - it would be great of them to take just a few simple steps to much such items more easily accessible to those who would treasure them via FS memories.
and with "crowdsourcing projects" like the Family Bible Preservation Project and others - thousands of such items can be processed and person tagged to entries in FS FT.
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