US Black Heritage Project Alabama Team

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Alabama, United States
Surnames/tags: black_heritage Alabama

The Alabama Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of Alabama.

Interim Team Leader: Elaine Martzen

Team Leader in Training: Judy Bramlage

Team Members: Dot Davis

Contents 1 Goals 2 Projects 2.1 January 2024 Project 2.1.1 Baldwin County 2023 3 Plantations 4 Resources 5 Stickers 6 WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project 7 Sources

Goals

This team is part of the US Black Heritage Project. Our goals are the following with specific emphasis on Alabama:

• To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting African-American Genealogies.
• To create the largest online public database of connected African-American families.
• To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting African-American families to the Global Family Tree.
• To process all types of documents from Alabama regarding free and enslaved ancestors with the goal of creating their profiles and connecting them to their descendants.
• To provide and maintain a logical and organized structure to help individuals identify their ancestors and celebrate their history.
• To improve all profiles of ancestors with Black heritage in Alabama, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.

Projects

• 1880 Census Project: US Black Heritage 1880 Census Project, Alabama
• Locating and documenting all African-American cemeteries in Alabama, including developing profiles on WikiTree for persons found, as well as free space pages for the cemeteries.
  • See Alabama, African-American Cemeteries for existing categories. The categories are broken down by county, then by cemetery, profiles and free space cemetery pages respectively, designated with the number in each area currently on WikiTree.
  • Some African American Cemeteries at Find A Grave
• Locating and documenting all plantations in Alabama that utilized slave labor with at least 40 slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for slave owners and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.
  • See Alabama Plantations
• Locating and developing profiles for Freedmen in Alabama.
• Make profiles for the Tuskegee Airman who don't yet have profiles on WikiTree
• Begin One Place Studies for African-American towns and communities in Alabama.
• Work on Connecting Alabama's largest unconnected branches: US Black Heritage: Connectors Page
• Locate and create notables in Alabama, starting with Governors, Senators, and Representatives to Congress that were slave owners

January 2024 Project

Starting on Chambers County! Still getting our sheets made.

Baldwin County 2023

Still adding to Baldwin County, too.

Specific areas of focus

• 1880 Census for Baldwin
• Make profiles for Free People of Color- space page
• Make profiles for all slave owners
  • 1850 Slave Schedule, Baldwin County, Alabama - developing profiles for enslavers not already on WikiTree - 1850 space page
  • 1860 Slave Schedule, Baldwin County, Alabama - developing profiles for enslavers not already on WikiTree 1860 space page
• Identify the enslaved and free people of color and make profiles for them
• Make free space pages for all plantations in Baldwin County
• Document all African-American cemeteries in Baldwin County
  • Make profiles for all occupants in African-American cemeteries in Baldwin County

Plantations

• See Alabama Plantations for an index of existing plantation pages in Alabama.
• If you have names of plantations in Alabama that aren't yet ready to have pages created, please add them to Alabama Plantations Needing Research

Resources

See African-American Resources for Alabama.

Stickers

Along with the {{African-American Sticker}} you may also wish to add an Alabama sticker to profiles.

Place {{Alabama Sticker|born in Alabama}} below the African American sticker if they were born in Alabama. Place {{Alabama Sticker|living=n}} below the African American sticker if they lived in Alabama for a large part of their life, but were not born there.

WikiTree's US Black Heritage Project

• US Black Heritage Project
• US Black Heritage: Heritage Exchange Portal
• US Black Heritage Index of Plantations

Sources