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...Chicago started with only the family Bible and a grandfather's scrapbook. They led her to a quiet cemetery in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. "It turns out," she says, "that I'm related to about three-fourths of the people buried there." Now a professional genealogist, Shaw photocopied local census records and created a 500-page manuscript documenting the entwined relationships of the cemetery's roughly 2,500 people. Phyllis Heiss, 76, of Boca Raton, Fla., tracked her family back 15 generations across five centuries and estimates that her still incomplete family database has the names of 11,000 relatives. Heiss...
...able to take it back several generations in a single day." Margot Williams, 50, a minister of education for St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md., is of African-American, Cherokee, Seminole and Saponi descent. During her first visits to the National Archives, she pored over an 1880 census to find some of her black ancestors. She was getting discouraged after 2 1/2 hours, until, she recalls, "lo and behold, I began to find family members. Once the 'Aha!' factor and the 'Oh, wow!' factor take over, you don't mind the hunt...
...Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society in Washington, is a fourth-generation descendant of pioneers who drove cattle to California during the Gold Rush. She advises using a variety of documents, explaining that "a South Carolina Dutch slave owner's documents can help locate black cousins in the Netherlands. Census records might find a Chinese ancestor in Mississippi or one born in Canada, Madagascar, New Zealand or, of course, the Caribbean." Finding the right name provides many clues. To students in his genealogy classes at Chicago State University, Tony Burroughs says that "in many instances, a former slave...
...financial crisis, nuclear tests in India and Pakistan and ethnic conflicts in Kosovo, the strategy is to book his days so fully that he never appears bogged down in scandal. Recent weeks have seen him planting flowers in Harpers Ferry, Va., talking to the Delaware assembly on education, discussing census sampling techniques at a Houston community center, dedicating a new institute at Walden Woods and studying tidal pools in Monterey, Calif. And, of course, raising money for Democrats almost everywhere. They now have a rich issue to add to their political war chests...
Between the 1990 census and the rental housingsurvey, Cambridge's white, non-Hispanic populationgrew from 71.6 to 76 percent...