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10 page PDF research guide includes:
Guide for Juneteenth in Appalachia: From Galveston to the Holler
A Juneteenth program booklet names people. It names who led the service, who organized the committees, who gave money, who showed up. In communities where the courthouse burned and the church minute book is gone, a folded paper program from 1923 may be the only record that places your great-grandmother in a specific town on a specific day. This companion turns that program into a working method. The six-step cross-reference sequence moves a name from the printed page into church minute books, school registers, cemetery records, and for families whose paper trail starts before 1865, into Freedmen's Bureau labor contracts and marriage registers. Four parallel logs track every search, including the ones that found nothing, because a documented dead end is still evidence.
What's Inside
- Program booklet reference table covering title page, order of service, roll call, committee list, donor list, advertisements, and inside cover inscriptions, with what each section can prove and how to follow it
- Six-step cross-reference method for moving a name from program to documented family member, with confirmation criteria for each step
- Repository guide by record type covering program booklets, church minute books, lodge records, school registers, cemetery records, Freedmen's Bureau records, and newspapers
- Program booklet log with transcription fields and negative search documentation
- Church and lodge records log with minute book entry log and analysis prompts
- School register log with household link analysis
- Cemetery and Freedmen's Bureau log with pre-1870 identification fields and analysis prompts
- Notes and search log pages