Wednesday Community Chat — December 17 at 7 PM

What movie mirrors your people, your history, or the legacy you grew up hearing?

Join us as we talk about films, family legacy, and the stories Hollywood tells - and doesn't tell!
substack.com/chat/6325384

#BlackHistory
#FamilyHistory
#ClaimingKin

“Hollywood can decorate the story all it wants, but my mother lived the truth.”

A revised and contextualized 2025 publication of an interview with my mother on what being “the help” was really like.

Read → claimingkin.substack.com/p/what-being...

#PublicHistory #FamilyHistory #ClaimingKin

Honoring my mother, Carrie Chapple Taylor — a woman of faith, fire, and generational strength. Her story is part of mine, and today I tell it.

🌿 New remembrance now live.
claimingkin.substack.com/p/rememberin...

motherdaughter, carriechappletaylor, remembrance, familyhistory, faithandfamily

New story up:

Israel Newsom’s 1868 Sharecropping Contract — an honest look at what freedom truly meant for newly emancipated Black families in Reconstruction-era Texas.

Strategy. Survival. Resilience.

Read here 👉🏾 claimingkin.substack.com/p/israel-new...

#TexasHistory #Reconstruction

New Substack Chat! 💬
Topic: How neighborhood names shape identity + memory.
Catch up here 👉https://claimingkin.substack.com/p/hiding-in-plain-sight-my-first-published

Then join the Chat + share your thoughts!-https://substack.com/chat/6325384

Before genealogy claimed my heart, I wrote about a Houston community hiding in plain sight.
My very first published story — Vinegar Hill — is now on Substack.

🔗 claimingkin.substack.com/p/hiding-in-...

“Some stories stay with you. This one burns.
Two white sisters in Jim Crow NC left their 800-acre estate to the Black family they loved as kin — sparking a fight that echoed for generations.
My interview with author Gene Stowe is now live.
🔗 claimingkin.substack.com”#genealogyg#southernhistoryry

Did you miss Thomas MacEntee's "Genealogy Meets the Internet Archive and AI"? Watch before Dec 7!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-UG...

#WikiTreeSymposium2025

Did you miss "Rooted in One Tree: The Power of Global Connection through WikiTree" with Shelley Murphy? Expires Dec 7!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUS7...
#WikiTreeSymposium2025

September is Black Reading Month, a Detroit tradition with a growing Michigan reach www.newsfromthestates.com/article/sept...

“On Jan 19, 1868, Israel Newsom, Sr. entered a sharecropping contract in Washington Co., TX. His “X” mark on the deed was his first receipt of freedom’s labor. His proof. His family's proof. See full transcription here: claimingkingenealogy.blogspot.com/2025/09/labo...

#ClaimingKin #LaborDay

This was an AWESOME episode!