Month: September 2020

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    Our September 2020 Newletter is ready

    Our September 2020 Newsletter is now available.  Read it here.   

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    Black Voter Register from 1890s Found in Museum

    (Updated 1/11/2021) A few years ago, volunteers working in the Lovettsville Museum found a list of registrations of Black voters in Lovettsville, dating from 1888 to 1900.  The original voter…

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    The Right to Vote: An Ancestral Story

      By Claudette Bard Like many African Americans, my genealogical journey began when I watched Roots, the television mini-series that aired in 1977, which chronicled Alex Haley’s family history. I…

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    Whose Folly, or Who’s Fawley?

    During colonial times, it was common for land tracts to be given colorful names, such as “Tasker’s Chance,” “Arnold’s Delight,” “Mortality,” or “Mill’s Folly” — all of which were in…