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Date Posted: 13:33:07 05/31/09 Sun
Author: Joseane
Subject: Summary about Putting My Family Together

Char Bah’s family are African-American and she want to put her family together. The Char Bah’s search began at the Cross Roads Baptist Church in rural southern Virginia. In tracing slave ancestors, she is challenged by a lack of records. Slaves often took the surnames of their owners, which could change when they were sold. She began by recording oral histories with family members from different lines, because many documents were burned at Civil War. Then she found a name and a owner name and than she was found her ancestors with 95 different names of owners. And like she says “to know who my ancestry is, is not to bring shame to what they were; it is to elevate them to what they made possible for the generations after them.”

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