| STORYTELLER |
LOCATION |
HOW YOU HEARD |
YEAR TOOK PLACE |
TELLER'S PLACE OF ORIGIN |
WHAT IT'S ABOUT |
| My grandmother told me this story |
Alabama |
Family legend |
1830s |
Native American Cherokee |
Native american story |
|
Louisiana |
family members research; oral history |
1900s |
Louisiana |
rich heritage |
| Cousins, aunts, uncles |
Sibley, Mississippi (Adams County) |
family history |
1900s |
Adams County, Mississippi |
great grandparents |
| My mother, aunts, uncles, and grandmother |
Mississippi |
passed down |
1890s |
Greenville and Greenwood Mississippi |
mothers fathers family |
| other family researchers |
French Louisiana Mobile, New Orleans, Opelousas |
louisiana archives published research |
1780s |
Louisiana |
fighting for freedom |
| My father |
Laurens County, South Carolina and Little River County, Arkanass |
Oral History |
1880s |
Grandparents who were slaves |
Migration of family; name change |
| Aunt |
Guthrie, Oklahoma |
A family legend |
1890s |
She was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma. |
Losing the land |
| father, and his 2nd cousins |
South Carolina |
family reunion |
1900s |
Orangeberg, South Carolina |
perseverance, fear and overcoming |
| grandmother |
Kansas City, Kansas |
family story |
1951 |
Macon, Georgia |
we had Cherokee and Blackfoot, also Scotch-Irish |
| my mother's father |
Ridgley, Maryland |
oral tradition |
1850s |
Caroline County of the Eastern Shore of Maryland |
great-great grandfather linked to a white family |
