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		<title>African American Geni</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Over the past several weeks, I was a featured blogger for Geni.com. The 12-part blog series provides information on how to conduct family research — with a special focus on the challenges that apply for African Americans. In case you missed it on Geni, here is a link to the entire series for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=186&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cameo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Black Warrior</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuscaloosa, Alabama is the home of one of the people I have been researching for many years&#8211; Dr. John Marrast. He owned the plantation in Lowndes County from which I believe my ancestors, Tom Leslie and Rhoda Reeves Leslie, emerged from slavery. According to an official website: &#8220;The City of Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County and the Black [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=156&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year when I do my genealogy trek to the Southland, I am reminded of the rife injustices about which I have enormously conflicting emotions. Here is yet another issue that has been top of mind this week. My paternal grandfather had seven siblings. My maternal grandfather had five. There are at least two dozen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=107&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 12:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year for the last 10 years, the good people of Burkville, Alabama have gathered for an annual celebration of &#8220;the people&#8217;s vegetable.&#8221; Burkville is a very small community in Lowndes County. It is just down the road from Montgomery, on the way to the county seat at Hayneville. The festival, which attracts hundreds of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=147&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The First Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I vividly remember finding and viewing my very first slave schedule.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=99&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raising The Dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I succeeded in finding the grave of James E. Leslie, the man I believe sired my great-grandfather, Tom Leslie. Born in 1823 in North Carolina, James migrated sometime before 1850 to Lowndes County, Alabama. He operated a blacksmith shop in Hayneville and lived about 17 miles from town in the Braggs community. In 1875, he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=140&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sweet Home Alabama</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The signs throughout the countryside tell you to “Keep Alabama The Beautiful” and, indeed, Alabama is that … one beautiful state. It’s natural bounty includes lush green rolling hills and pastures; a multitude of lakes and rivers; healthy livestock – cows, sheep and horses &#8212; grazing the land. Even though the corn fields this year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=128&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Road To Remembrance</title>
		<link>http://ourblackancestry.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/the-road-to-remembrance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interstate 65 South is the artery that connects my Chicago birthplace to my ancestral roots in Alabama. There are 784 miles between me and my destination. The road to remembrance starts in Indiana and, as soon as I hit Highway 65, the speed limit increases to a more efficient 70 mph and the fuel prices [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=123&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Road Dog</title>
		<link>http://ourblackancestry.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/road-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sharon Leslie Morgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Nemo. He is my road dog. As I pack up the car and prepare to get on the the road for the first leg of my genealogy adventure, Nemo senses the excitement in the air. He&#8217;s ready to roll &#8212; as am I. First stop is Clarksville Tennessee where we will overnight with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ourblackancestry.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14293163&amp;post=115&amp;subd=ourblackancestry&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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