{"id":214,"date":"2018-02-06T20:17:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2018-02-06T20:18:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T20:18:30","slug":"primary-source-assignment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/courses\/hist-4600-writing-womens-biography\/primary-source-assignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Source Assignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are to search an individual born prior to 1940, preferably prior to 1920.\u00a0 Then, using HeritageQuest online, you are to gather as many primary sources about this person as possible.<\/p>\n<p>These should include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Census records<\/li>\n<li>City Directories<\/li>\n<li>Wills<\/li>\n<li>Slave schedules (1850, 1860) if appropriate<\/li>\n<li>Military records if appropriate<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sift through these records for every scintilla of evidence they can provide: occupation(s), spouse, age, parents\u2019 names, birthplace, parents\u2019 birthplace, address, children, did they rent or own property, if they owned \u2013 what was it worth?\u00a0 Did parents\u2019 own slaves? Find out. If African American can you determine ancestry to the era of the Civil War?\u00a0 If you can locate a photograph, include that in the completed assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Write up the information in narrative form.\u00a0 For example, \u201cJane Smith was born in 1887 in Pike County, KY.\u00a0 She married Thomas Miller.\u00a0 They had six children.\u00a0 According to the city directory of Princess, KY, Jane was a hatmaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I encourage you to select someone who you hope to write about for this class.\u00a0 If you get stuck, here are two names to search:<\/p>\n<p>Daisy McLaurin Stevens, Born 1877, Brandon, Mississippi (white)<br \/>\nMamie Fields, Born in 1887, Charleston, SC (black)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are to search an individual born prior to 1940, preferably prior to 1920.\u00a0 Then, using HeritageQuest online, you are to gather as many primary sources about this person as possible. These should include: Census records City Directories Wills Slave schedules (1850, 1860) if appropriate Military records if appropriate Sift through these records for every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":432,"featured_media":0,"parent":179,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3ip3R-3s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/432"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/karen-cox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}