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From: Neil Baker <>
Subject: RE: [NCBERTIE] should have
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:22:33 -0500
In-Reply-To: <11c201c60a7d$837af120$6500a8c0@oemcomputer>


Researchers need to know the following!

Census Research
The following is from NORTH CAROLINA RESEARCH-GENEALOGY AND LOCAL
HISTORY by Helen F. M. Leary (well known N.C. Scholar) page 10.
"During the early nineteenth century, Native Americans were described by
federal census takers as free persons of color, mulattos, or whites
simply because no correct racial category was included in the
government's instructions. Consequently, genealogist searching for their
minority or mixed-blood ancestors and local historians interested in
ethnic representation within the community often must depend on
present-day descendants' oral traditions, which are not primary sources
but are nevertheless essential to these kinds of investigations".

As noted earlier by "The Miller Book" this also was the case in the
eighteenth century also.

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Drake [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, December 26, 2005 7:36 PM
To:
Subject: [NCBERTIE] should have

I should have included the following for Mr. Heinegg references.
Send questions and comments to
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Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina
Foreword by historian Ira Berlin
Recent updates: November 2005: December 2005:
Maryland and Delaware

Illinois
Free and American, A study of Eleven Illinois Families of Colour, by
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Colonial Tax Lists, Census, and Court Records for Delaware, Maryland,
North
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List of Indian Slaves, Free Indians, and Free African Americans
identified
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