In this episode, Deborah Robinson talks about Bob Robinson, her great-great-grandfather, who was born on Edisto Island, Charleston County, SC, and the land she inherited from him.

Deborah Robinson has been a genealogist for more than 25 years. Born in Harlem and raised in the Bronx, Deborah's specialty is African American research in the southeastern United States, particularly the Gullah/Geechee culture of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Deborah holds certificates from the Boston University Center for Professional Education in Genealogical Research and the Professional Genealogy (ProGen) Study Program. 

She also holds a bachelor’s degree in speech communications from Syracuse University. Deborah has worked as a Research Manager at Ancestry.com's ProGenealogists division and is currently the 2nd Vice President and Webmaster for the Jean Sampson Scott Greater New York Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society. 

Music by Sean Bempong.

Links

Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society, Jean Sampson Scott Greater NY Chapter: https://aahgs-newyork.org/

Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission: https://gullahgeecheecorridor.org/

Lowcountry Africana: https://lowcountryafricana.com/

Donna Cox Baker and Frazine K. Taylor, The Beyond Kin Project: Descendants of Slaveholders, Do We Still Hold a Key?: https://beyondkin.org/

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade: https://enslaved.org/

Stacy Ashmore Cole, They Had Names: African Americans in Early Records of Liberty County, Georgia: https://theyhadnames.net/

Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: https://digital.newberry.org/ahcb/index.html

Discover Freedmen: http://www.discoverfreedmen.org/

Toni Carrier and Angela Walton Raji, Mapping the Freedmen's Bureau: https://mappingthefreedmensbureau.com/

Ancestry.com, U.S. Freedmen's Bureau Records: A Breakthrough for Black Family History: https://www.ancestry.com/cs/freedmens?o_iid=116303&o_lid=116303&o_sch=Web+Property

International African American Museum: Center for Family History [Charleston, SC]: https://cfh.iaamuseum.org/

FamilySearch.org Research Wiki: African American Genealogy: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/African_American_Online_Genealogy_Records

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