Bethany Baldwin CDC Serves 700+ at Thankful Thursday Giveaway
December 15, 2021
Bethany Baldwin Community Development Corporation gave one week’s supply of groceries to 730 families during during the Thankful Thursday Giveaway.
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Latter-day Saints Announce Completion of Freedman’s Project
July 7, 2016
The Freedmen’s Bureau Project will bring a change to family history research for African Americans, according to Dr. Edna Briggs, president of the California African American Genealogical Society. FamilySearch, the largest genealogy organization in the world, which is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has announced completion of the Freedmen’s Bureau Project, which indexed the names of millions of African Americans collected directly following emancipation. “Indexing is a transcription effort that makes valuable genealogical records searchable online,” Dr. Briggs said. “By completing this project, African Americans can now digitally search for their ancestors who were previously
Find your roots at Freedmen’s Project & Conference
March 9, 2016
“Discover Your Roots,” the 14th annual conference focusing on African American genealogy, takes place on Saturday, March 12, in Los Angeles. The conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 1209 S. Manhattan Place in Los Angeles. Registration at the door is $40. For more information visit discoveryourrooots.org or call 1-800-533-2444. Among the more than 20 workshops will be a class on the Freedmen’s Bureau Project presented by Thom Reed, who oversees global communication for the project. Emancipation freed nearly four million slaves and the Freedmen’s Bureau, formerly known as the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned
Retired Black Exec Finds Her Chinese Family
January 20, 2016
Pursuing her long-lost grandfather and her life-long yearning to know her extended family resulted in retired NBC Universal executive, Paula Williams Madison, meeting more than 300 Chinese relatives and finding lineage that dated back more than 3,000 years. Her book and documentary by the same name, “Finding Samuel Lowe,” is a memoire that leads from New York to Jamaica to China where Madison finally meets the family of her maternal grandfather, Samuel Lowe. “I had no idea that my family from China would be so large and we were blessed because of the way they reacted to us,” she said.
Faith community salutes digital release of Freedmen’s Bureau records
June 24, 2015
The Los Angeles faith community joined with African Americans across the nation in celebrating the digital release of four million historical records from the Freedmen’s Bureau, the Civil War agency established to assist newly freed slaves. At a press conference on June 19 at the California African American Museum, scores of faith and community leaders applauded the move and committed to support the nation-wide indexing effort, which will allow the public online access to trace ancestors from that time period. From 1865 to 1872, the Freedmen’s Bureau helped former slaves in 15 states and the District of Columbia to adapt