Beyond Kin

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This is the home page for the Beyond Kin Project at WikiTree. This is a trial project in an effort to organize, by alternative means, to determine the true names of enslaved populations. It is based on the method of the Beyond Kin Project - https://beyondkin.org/

This method relies on a naming standard that does not fit the WikiTree conventions. It is recommended that participants use free spaces to organize your work and to create profiles after all effort has been made to determine the actual name of an enslaved, or a previously enslaved, person.

Naming Scenarios

This is the naming convention recommended by the Beyond Kin website. At this time, profiles should only be created once the last name a formerly enslaved person used after emancipation. We can use surname as the name of the free space.

If Record Extracted From	Given Name	Surname
"United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:WKRC-WJT2 : 16 October 2019), Daniel Chesnut, 1860; citing Schedule 2 - Slave Inhabitants in Kingston Parish in the District of Horry, State of South Carolina, enumerated by me, on the 10th day of September 1860, William Carter, Assistant Marshal.	15b12 Black Female 1800	Daniel Chestnut Sr Plantation
Property inventory of probate file bequeathing to Patricia Coleman "Negro boy Jim"	Jim	Patricia Coleman Farm
University of Alabama board of trustees minutes allowing funds to replace blouse for "Mary the laundry slave"	Mary the laundress	University of Alabama

Free Spaces

The following is an example of how you can set up a table on your free space.

1790	1800	1810	1820	1830	1840	1850	1860	Profile ID
				18e Black Female 1794-1806	15e Black Female 1785-1804	4a17 Black Female 1800	15b12 Black Female 1800

To see it in action you can follow this link.