Research At The National Archives And Beyond!

This show will focus on the value of researching enslaved ancestors, free people of color and identifying the slaveholders in tax records in an Urban community such as Baltimore in the early 19th century. Donna Tyler Hollie received an MA and a Ph.D. in  History. After retirement as an administrator with the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, she served for thirteen years as professor of History and Chair of the Social Science Department at Sojourner-Douglass College.  She has contributed articles to a variety of historical and genealogical journals. In June 2009, she published African Americans of Fauquier County Virginia. Her most recent work, Through The Tax Assessor’s Eyes: Enslaved People, Free Blacks and Slaveholders in Early Nineteenth Century Baltimore, was published in November 2017. Current projects include an article on John W. Locks, a nineteenth century African American prominent in Baltimore’s religious, economic and political arena.     Noreen J Goodson was born and raised in Balt