Following the Paper Trail: Tracking Enslaved Ancestors Across Owners

This class explores strategies for tracing enslaved ancestors across multiple slave owners. Learn how to follow bills of sale, estate records, probate files, and plantation documents to reconstruct lives that were bought, sold, and moved across generations.

This program will be held both in-person and virtually via Zoom.

Please register for the program HERE

Patrons who are a part of the waitlist will still receive a link to the program via Zoom.

For more information and resources on genealogy and local history, please click here: Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room

To make an appointment with the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, please contact them via email at [carolinaroom@cmlibrary.org], or call them Monday- Friday 9 am to 5 pm at 704-416-0150.