African American History and Genealogy Seminar

This has been an interesting summer. During August I did a seminar in Kansas City, Kansas discussing the history of Africans and African Americans, as well as the history of African American families. The history of Africans goes back 100,00 to 200,00 years, which makes this history the oldest of all human beings. There are Africans mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. The history of African in North America extends back at least 3,000 to 4,000 years. The history of enslaved Africans extends to the mid 1500s.

When there is discussion of African Americans, the history is extensive, very interesting, and saddening, but we African Americans have survived and can do very well now and in the future. Most of the African Americans during the years of enslavement had life so much more difficult than we have now and are our past ancestors that we should learn about.

KNOW YOUR ROOTS: Your Family Tree Seminar

I will do a presentation in the near future. Everyone is welcome to attend. The title of the presentation is KNOW YOUR ROOTS: Your Family Tree. The purpose of the presentation is for persons in attendance to discuss, learn, and have fun discussing the history of African Americans and even more each person will learn how to do their own family history.

The Presentation will be Saturday August 22, 2009 from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM in Love Fellowship Center at 1723 Quindaro in Kansas City, Kansas. The cost is only $5.00/person. Refreshments will be provided and you may arrive a little early to meet me and socialize with the others who will attend.

Update

The last few months I have been busy with all types of things. Now I have more time to do things related to genealogy and family history. Opportunities have opened up for me to speak around the area. I will inform you of my speeches ahead of time as well as other genealogy and family history activities.

Carrington-Owens Picture

Attached to this message is a picture of an African American couple. The picture was taken approximately during the late 1800s or early 1900s. The picture has no name on in, however, it was with papers related to Philip Grant Carrington and his mother Clara Owens Carrington Kidd. The picture may be of Clara's parents who had the last name of Owens or Raiford (Rayford or Ray). Clara was born in South Carolina approximately 1892 in or near Spartanburg or Laurens.

Philip was born in 1910 in Ashdown, Arkansas but also lived in Colorado, Missouri, Ohio before dying in Michigan in 1982 where he was very well known throughout the state.

Please inform me if you know who the persons are in the picture.

South Carolina History and Resource

For everyone interested in locating African American ancestors who lived in South Carolina during the mid to late 1800s thru 1919 there is a 500+ page book. The book has only biographies and pictures of African Americans. The book is entitled HISTORY of the AMERICAN NEGRO: South Carolina Edition, edited by A.B. Caldwell. This is the original edition which is illustrated and published in 1919 by the A.B. Caldwell Publishing Company in Atlanta, Georgia.

My Genealogy and Family History Business

My genealogy and family history business is just beginning. The name of my business is: Seventh Cousins Genealogy and Family History. The work of the business includes: genealogy researcing for individual; presenting speeches to organzations, schools, and other groups; and teaching genealogy classes. The emphases of the business is genealogy and family history of African Americans, Native Americans, and European Americans.

The Henry Claiborne Talton Family in the late 1800s

This is a picture taken in the late 1800s of my great grandfather Henry Claiborne Talton with his second wife and the children of him and his deceased first wife and the children of him and his second wife. He was the son of a slave and slavemaster and born into slavery in 1839 in Houston County Georgia. He later lived enslaved in Claiborne Parish in northwestern Louisiana. After slavery ended he and his family lived in Ashdown (Little River County) Arkansas where the picture was taken.
He died in Arkansas in the 1920s.