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The staff at Historic Stagville has been compiling
information about the African American community at Stagville, putting the names
into a format that would be useful to family genealogists. There is
currently a 300+ page document that lists all known people that lived in the
African American community at Stagville before the Civil War. These people
are listed in alphabetical order by first name. This information is now
being entered into a family tree software program. Once we have entered
the names into this program, we are able to discover family groupings,
marriages, and we have been able to give some sense of order to this large list
of names. The button on this page is a link to this family
tree project as it stands today. There is such a large amount of
information, that despite having entered over 150 names into the program, we
have not yet entered more than 10% of the names yet. Therefore, we will be
updating this information as we work on this project, and as we are given
more information by descendents of the African American community that lived at
Stagville before the Civil War. At the site, we have a large family tree that takes
up an entire wall of the visitor center. This family tree has all of the
names we have worked on so far. This exhibit is also going to be
constantly changed and enlarged. If you have any information that you could share
with the Stagville staff regarding this project, please contact Frachele Scott
at (919) 620-0120. She is looking for names, dates, photographs, or any
other information that you are willing to share. We hope to eventually
have a large database that we can share with family historians. Someday,
when a person finds their family member's name, they will be able to click on it
and find all of that person's vital information, any letters the person wrote,
and photographs of that person. This type of database would be valuable to
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