Distribute and fill-out survey

Step 1

Cheikh Anta Diop, wrote in Civilization or Barbarism, “The essential thing, for people...is to rediscover the thread that connects them to their most remote ancestral past.  In the face of cultural aggression of all sorts, in the face of all disintegration factors of the outside world, the most efficient cultural weapon with which a people can arm itself is this feeling of historical continuity…this is why every people seeks only to know and to live their true history well, to transmit its memory to their descendents.”

Family/Land History Survey

Name_________________________________
Address_______________________________

City__________________State____________Zip_____

Family Reunions (Circle yes or no below)

Do you have family reunions?
Yes             No

If no, would you like information to start? 
Yes   No

Family Origin

What city and state did most of your family come from?
________________Do you still have family in the area?

Yes     No

If Yes, is is it being used?  Yes   No

Do your own land somewhere else?

Yes     No

If yes, where?___________________

Family Representative

Do you have an elder representative or someone who maintains the family history/records?  Yes  No

Family Unique History

(Describe your’s)

____________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________

Copy & Fill-Out this form, then send it to:
 The Familyhood Connection, Inc

P.O. Box 10677

Oakland, CA  94610

(510) 776-4178

Create The Map

Step 2

The numbers on the map correspond to these families:

1- The Goree/Suber family from Newberry, South Carolina, later migrated to Palestine, Texas. The elder representative of the family is Ocie Swead. Most reunions are held in July in Texas.

2- Mr. Fritz Bronner, an elder living in Atlanta, Ga, said his mother's maiden name was Brown, from Hernando, Mississippi. His father I was from Pickens, Alabama. His father's mother was a Jones from Memphis.

3- The Swansons in Atlanta, GA come from Orleans Parish, Eastbank, Louisiana. Deputy Swanson submitted to us information pertaining to a slave trade route from the Congo, through the Bahamas, to New Orleans. Therefore, he considers himself Congolese.

4- The Ogumba's may also be called Edwards. Edwards is their slave name, and Ogumba is their African name that has been preserved from Eritrea, Ethiopia.

The Ogumbas began their U.S history in Sardis, Mississippi, and are related to the Greens in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Robinson's in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.