| Author | Message | ||
     Tim Dennee |
Date: 12/25/2000 Time: 5:40:57 PM The Friends of Freedmen's Cemetery would like to welcome you to our new website. We hope that, in addition to acquainting the public to this important historic and spiritual site, we can provide you with assistance in researching African Americans in Alexandria. Please consult the bottom of our history page for documents containing historical and genealogical information. We will continue to add to the resources over time, especially relating to Alexandria's African Americans of the Civil War era, as well as of the antebellum and postwar eras. We welcome your contributions. Please use this message board for posting on any related subjects. We would like to offer blurbs on families and individuals and would be happy to post your research, if you wish. We are most interested in connecting with individuals with ancestors buried in Freedmen's Cemetery or simply living in Alexandria during the 1860s. | ||
| Wendy Wilson Fall |
Date: 12/30/2000 Time: 10:02:07 AM Congratulations on a very interesting, informative, and well presented site, as well as on the work you are doing. I have been researching a certain Henry Gregory, mulatto, who lived in Lynchburg VA in 1850 but havn't found him anywhere else but in that year's Lynchburg census. At any rate, thank you for your work. I am the director of a research center that assists African and American researchers in Dakar, Senegal. Please don't hestitate to write if you have any questions about names or culture that you think might come from the Senegambia, as we have a group on Diaspora studies here, including Senegalese historians and archeologists. They can be reached at assist@mail.ucad.sn Or you can write me directly. My friend Mary Ann French is working on the Montpelier project, are you familiar with that? Best wishes, Wendy Wilson Fall (of Washington, D.C., currently in Dakar, Senegal) | ||
| Wendy Wilson Fall |
Date: 12/30/2000 Time: 10:25:33 AM I just wrote earlier today to offer collaboration with the West African Research Center. I thought I would point out, that while looking up Oscar Gregory, I found in the same ward a certain Isaha Douglass. You may be interested to know that the name Isiaka is a popular west African Muslim name (pronounced Isseeyaaka), which could easily have been misconstrued or badly remembered by a later generation as Isaha. Wendy Wilson Fall ps I hope someone can benefit from this information. | ||
| Eugene Thompson |
Date: 12/31/2000 Time: 12:06:52 PM Just came across your site on the Freedman's Cemetery. As a native Alexandrian and the former director of the Alexandria Black History Resource Center, I am delighted to see how much support this project has received in Alexandria. Congratulations. Eugene Thompson Director of Public Art Philadelphia, PA | ||
| Laura Heaton |
Date: 1/2/2001 Time: 7:53:38 AM Thank you for providing this web site which connects us to an important and moving part of Alexandria history. It is also a potentially important resource to those conducting geneaolgical research. Iam a volunteer at Alexandria Archaeology and have been working on and off with tracing descendents of the Freedmen's Cemetery. I am very much a neophyte at this but have received wonderful assistance from the staff at Alexandria Archaeology. I would love to hear from people who could provide me with information on their ancestors who are buried at the Freedmen's Cemetery. Thank you very much. Laura Heaton Laura.M.Heaton@census.gov |