Ancestor's Footprints with Bernice Alexander Bennett
Welcome to Ancestor's Footprints—the podcast where the past comes alive! Whether you're a curious beginner, an avid genealogist, or someone who believes that uncovering family history is a lifelong journey, this show is for you. With each episode, we'll bring you incredible stories, expert insights, and practical tips to help you trace your roots and connect with your heritage. I’ve lined up passionate experts who will not only share their knowledge and resources but also answer your most pressing genealogy questions. Together, we’ll uncover the hidden gems in your family’s history and inspire you to take the next step in your journey. So, get ready to explore, discover, and honor the footprints your ancestors left behind. Your story starts here.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 57 minutes
- Episodes
- 293
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2025
U.S. Internment Camps in WWII with Linda Harms Okazaki
After Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, thousands of Japanese and Japanese Americans were incarcerated in “Internment Camps.” German and Italians were also interned, but in smaller numbers. The vari…
00:56:37 |
Fri 05 Oct 2018
Black Carolinians During World War I with Janet G. Hudson
For 21,609 young African American men who called North Carolina home, the First World War meant leaving families and familiar Tar Heel communities. The military service and sacrifice of those tens of…
00:59:59 |
Fri 29 Jun 2018
The Lost JesuitSlaves of Maryland with Richard Cellini, Esq.
In 1838, Georgetown University and the Maryland Jesuits sold nearly 300 enslaved men, women and children to sugar plantations in southern Louisiana in orderto recuse the college from bankruptcy. Unt…
01:03:03 |
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia - Lynn Rainville
Lynn Rainville is the Acting Dean of Sweet Briar College, where she also directs the Tusculum Institute for Public History. Although her PhD is in Near Eastern archaeology, she has spent the last two…
01:02:55 |
Fri 18 May 2018
We Are Family - The O'Kelleys - Joyce Ann Huston and Argie Hoskins-Shumway
The O'Kelleys will discuss building bridges and healing the divide in the racial culture of America. They are an example that the horrible system from the past of slavery doesn’t have to linger into …
01:07:48 |
Fri 20 Apr 2018
Early 19th Century Baltimore Tax Records: Noreen Goodson and Donna Tyler Hollie
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 cen…
00:59:44 |
Fri 13 Apr 2018
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh with Daina Ramey Berry
The Price for Their Pound of Flesh includes photographs, illustrations, newspaper clippings, advertisements, extensive lists of appraisal and sale values, quotes, poems, letters, and songs from the t…
01:03:16 |
Fri 06 Apr 2018
Universities Studying Slavery with Kenyatta D. Berry
Professional Genealogist. Kenyatta D. Berry will discuss her Slave Ancestral Research on Universities Studying Slavery. Kenyatta D. Berry, Professional Genealogist, Entrepreneur and Attorney with o…
00:59:56 |
Fri 16 Mar 2018
Preparing Our Genealogical Blue Print for the Next Generation - Char McCargo Bah
This discussion is on documenting ourselves and leaving a blue print for future genealogist. We are the era of baby boomers; we have seen and participated in a lot of history in our life time. It wi…
01:01:09 |
Fri 16 Feb 2018
Left Behind: Peonage and Involuntary Servitude with Antoinette Harrell
Antoinette Harrell a Peonage Detective has spent countless hours in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., conducting peonage research in Class 50 (Peonage) Litigation Case Files, 1907 – 1973. T…
01:05:52 |
Fri 09 Feb 2018
GLEAMNS Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historical Site with Christopher B. Thomas
The GLEAMNS Dr. Benjamin E. Mays Historical Preservation Site has been established on the campus of GLEAMNS Human Resources Commission is located in the old African-American Brewer Hospital, the sit…
01:03:26 |
Fri 02 Feb 2018
African American History Etched in My DNA with Andre Kearns
Andre Kearns's research comes from the perspective of an African American genealogy hobbyist. Advances in DNA testing offer African Americans the possibility of leapfrogging brick walls created by sl…
01:14:16 |
Fri 26 Jan 2018
Writing and Self-Publishing Your Family Stories with Kathy Marshall
In 2017, Kathy Kanika Marshall wrote, The Ancestors Are Smiling! which is a collection of uplifting, funny, touching and sometimes harrowing real life stories, creatively told by Kathy Marshall’s anc…
01:11:26 |
Fri 05 Jan 2018
On Writing,the Accountability Partner - Anita Henderson and Christine Easterling
Anita R. Henderson is known by many as The Author’s Midwife. She is owner of The Write Image, and creator of The Genealogist's Writing Room, an online community helping genealogists write and share t…
01:08:33 |
Fri 17 Nov 2017
Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage
Host Bernice Bennett welcomes Dr. Evelyn McDowell, LaBrenda Garrett Nelson, and Muriel D. Roberts for a discussion on a new lineage society - the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passag…
01:10:36 |
Fri 27 Oct 2017
The Cooking Gene with Michael Twitty
Host Bernice Bennett welcomes author, Michael W. Twitty for a discussion of his new book, The Cooking Gene - A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South. Michael W. Twitty i…
01:06:31 |
Fri 13 Oct 2017
Haiti and the Civil War with Marvin T. Jones
"The Civil War is sometimes called the Second Haitian Revolution. For over seventy years pro-slavers feared Haiti, and the enslaved and abolitionists found great hope from Toussaint Louverture and H…
01:08:56 |
Fri 06 Oct 2017
Remember the Ladies with Angela P. Dodson
Angela P. Dodson documents one of the longest, most hard-won struggles for civil rights in our country’s history. Her approach to this history is inclusive, detailing the contributions of activists f…
00:45:47 |
Fri 08 Sep 2017
Malagasy Roots with Wendy Wilson Fall, PhD and Teresa Vega
Wendy Wilson Fall and Teresa Vega will share the history and origin of Malagasy Roots and how DNA testing can help identify your Malagasy ancestry. Wendy Wilson Fall is Associate Professor and Progr…
01:19:48 |
Fri 18 Aug 2017
The African American Odyssey of John Kizell with Kevin Lowther
The African American Odyssey of John Kizell (A South Carolina Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland) Join host Bernice Bennett and co-host Natonne Elaine Kemp for an engag…
00:59:25 |
Fri 28 Jul 2017
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