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After months of dead ends, there he was — Thomas Crowell, licensed to trade in the Creek Agency in 1822. The remarks even name who signed it. I cried at my desk. Sharing the record here in case the name means something to anyone else.

I have a 'Sandy Perryman (a free black)' in the 1832 Creek census at Chehawah. The AI related-records tool surfaced a manumission where a Perryman Wesley freed an enslaved man named Sandy. Is that enough to say it's the same person? How would you document the leap?

The capital employed looks like $3,000 but the bond is smudged. Anyone good with 1820s clerk hands? Posting the scan. Second opinions very welcome.

Mine was an inspection roll — a single line with a name and a port. Changed everything. What was the document that cracked your family story open? Let's swap stories.

I know my great-grandmother's name and that the family was in Georgia. That's basically it. Where would you point a complete beginner first?

Spent a weekend in the Deeds & Manumissions collection and connected two branches I never thought were related. The family tree builder made the relationships click. Grateful for this archive.

It surfaced a connection across two collections that I'd have never searched for — a name in one record's remarks matched another entirely. Whatever you all did under the hood, thank you.

Several folks in my tree seem to have taken a former enslaver's surname after being freed. What sources help confirm that pattern beyond a shared last name?

For Centerfold News, I'm trying to figure out how to keep track of all the news coming out. I want to make sure that I'm up-to-date with politics, but I also want to be up-to-date with gaming and movies since I have a genuine interest in those two things. How can I go about keepi…

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