Chapter Volunteers Help 2023 GPB-TV Pledge Drive
African American Church Cemeteries in DeKalb & Fulton Counties
Researched and published an inventory guide
South-View Cemetery Biographies
Researched bios of interred for the South-View Cemetery Foundation
1906 Atlanta Race Riot (Massacre) Commemoration
In 2006, we partnered with the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot to conduct, research and trace African American victims’ families to find descendants. The effort culminated with a Centennial Remembrance Weekend held in September 2006. (Articles accessed from Newspapers.com)
- “City’s bloody stain seen with new eyes” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution article)
- “Walk into darkness” (AJC article)
- “Events in September will mark 1906 Atlanta riot” (AJC article)
- “A century later, a city remembers” (AJC article includes photo of AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter members Kenny Burton, Monica Hackney and Rhonda Barrow)
- “DEADLINE: How Atlanta’s newspapers helped incite the 1906 race riot” (AJC article)
- “A too-muted ‘Silence'” (AJC article)
- “Voices, images tell story of race riot 100 years ago” (AJC article)
- “GSU marks centennial of tragic race riot” (Atlanta Voice article)
- 2006 Centennial Remembrance — Event Agenda
- “Race Riot Remembered” (AJC article)
African American Funeral Programs
Collecting and indexing programs with local groups and repositories for online access
Honored U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) Graves in Marietta, GA National Cemetery
1940 U.S. Census
Indexed nearly 130,000 names in 2012 to make them searchable on FamilySearch.
Freedmen’s Bureau Indexing
- Indexed 89,546 Names in Freedmen’s Bureau Records for FamilySearch
- Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal (NEW! Debuted 16 Nov 2022 — by National Museum of African American History and Culture)
- How to Find Ancestors
- SC, GA, FL Searches
- Freedmen’s Bureau Offices (and Freedman’s Bank) Locator Maps
- Smithsonian Transcription Project
Macedonia Cemetery Research
Researched interred in 2017 at Macedonia African Methodist Church Cemetery
WWII Netherlands Black Liberators
Researched “Finding the Descendants” of the 172 African American soldiers buried in Margraten (Details on our Member’s Only page)