​My free-born great-great-great grandfather Caleb Ogleton (1825-1863) worked as a hireling boatman on the C&O Canal between Georgetown, D.C. and Knoxville, Maryland.  Arrested and confined  in the Frederick County, Maryland, jail  as a suspected fugitive slave, he proved his free status in court and was released in March 1844.

Welcome to friends in search of their roots!

Christiana Taylor Williams (1812-1909) came to New York City from Red Hook, New York, as a manumitted Livingston family slave.  Seeing much for her times, she became the wife of black abolitionist   Rev. Amos Noe Freeman, with whom she was a Brooklyn host for John Brown on his way to his  historic Harper's Ferry, Virginia anti-slavery raid in 1859.

We'll go here or there to help you find, understand and grow your family tree.  Just as I have, you can savor the kinship legacy  you enjoy and from which you prosper!  We will guide your discovery of those small, yet meaningful kernels of truth, that you have always wanted and  will always treasure.  Here are some examples from my own family tree searches.

St. Louis-born Lillian Hughes Hunter (1879-1961), my great-grandmother and  church sweetheart of Columbia, Missouri-born  Norris Hunter (1875-1922), was a faithful and brave soul who taught us all how to love, work and thrive as a family, despite the odds, in the quiet north shore suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.