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The Texas Team covers activity for the US Black Heritage Project in the state of Texas.
Team Leader: Denise Jarrett
Team members:
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Goals
This team is part of the US Black Heritage Project. Our goals are the following with specific emphasis on Texas:
- 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 Texas 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 Texas, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making correct connections.
Projects
- Locating and documenting all African-American cemeteries in Texas, including developing profiles on WikiTree for persons found, as well as free space pages for the cemeteries on an as-needed basis.
- Locating and documenting all plantations in Texas that utilized slave labor with at least 40 slaves, including developing profiles on WikiTree for enslavers and the enslaved found, and developing free space pages for the plantations and owners.
- Locating and developing profiles for Freedmen in Texas.
- Make profiles for the Texas born Tuskegee Airman who don't yet have profiles on WikiTree.
- Begin One Place Studies for African-American towns and communities in Texas.
- Create profiles for all African-Americans present in Texas in the 1880 census.
2023 Projects
Texas has 254 counties. For the first 6 months ( January - June), the team will focus on South and East Texas.
Some volunteers may want to start in South Texas where the first Africans were brought from Mexico around 1578. Others may want to cover East Texas where migration from other southern states increased the population beginning around 1820.
Specific areas of focus
- Make profiles for slave owners
- Identify the enslaved and make profiles for them
- Make free space pages for all plantations in Texas
- Document all African-American cemeteries in Texas
- Identify African-American settlements and communities in Texas
- Create profiles for all African-Americans recorded in 1880 census in Texas
Pending
Cemeteries
Click here to see the list of the Texas cemeteries that have categories. |Texas Cemeteries This list is updated monthly.
1880 Census Records
Lists of African-Americans recorded in the 1880 census as living in Texas can be found by county at the link below. Not all counties have lists created yet; if you would like to work on a county not listed please let a team member know and we will create one. Note some present-day Texas counties did not exist yet in 1880.
USBH 1880 Census TEXAS List by County
USBH 1880 Census General Information and Directions
Churches
Data Doctors
Review this report find data errors that need to be corrected for Texas: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:DBE_Errors_By_USA_Div_7#Texas
Notables
- Create profiles for these Notables: (Please add them to the Proposed Notables tab of the Notables spreadsheet)
Slave Narratives
Slave Owners
Slave Profiles
Plantations
Completed
Resources Available
- History_of_African_Americans_in_Texas
- http://www.texasslaveryproject.org/
- https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/African_American_Resources_for_Texas
- https://digital.sfasu.edu/digital/collection/RSP (Texas Runaway Slave Project)
- http://sankofagen.pbworks.com/w/page/14230843/Texas (Sankofagen)
- https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/bayou-city-history/article/1860-Census-map-shows-the-distribution-of-slaves-12769865.php
- Handbook of African-American Texas
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