Pro genealogist. Lover of bacon, golden era hip hop. She/Her. 7th gen. who-rider. Citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Opinions = mine. 💕💚

Tennessee, USA
Joined December 2009
Y'all. Today is a holiday, just in case you didn't know it. As of this morning, @Ancestry has made the records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (Freedmen's Bureau) available in the world's largest digitized and searchable format. #genealogy
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth on the #FearlessAuthenticity pod thru our family stories... my genealogist cousin @neeksmith joins me to talk about the power in our roots. Subscribe on your favorite platform to get every #newepisode when it drops! ow.ly/ZW7P50QGFMx
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More than 77,000 pages of Fayette County’s historical records are now digitized and publicly accessible online, thanks to a project led by UK’s Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies' Central Kentucky Slavery Initiative. Click here to learn more! bit.ly/46dTefe
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
Nicka Smith @neeksmith will share how to Create/Develop Genealogy Presentations for any audience. This is a MEMBERS ONLY event. Don't miss this event, join the AAHGS Metro Atlanta Chapter today! Visit our website aahgsatl.org/membership or email us at [email protected]
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AGREE. I still slap this.
15 years ago… Q-Tip dropped his second* solo album ‘The Renaissance’ I know we talk a lot about underrated albums — but this is truly one of them. A masterclass in rapping & production from The Abstract. All tracks were produced by Tip w/ the exception of two done by Dilla.
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
Nicka Smith @neeksmith will share how to Create/Develop Genealogy Presentations to present to any audience. This is a MEMBERS ONLY event. Don't miss this event, join our genealogy society today! Visit our website aahgsatl.org/membership or email us at [email protected]
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Back in the day, they would mix donor sperm with the parent’s sperm so no one would know which one actually took. So, do with that what you will. 🥴
Kerry Washington appeared in a rare interview together with her parents, Valerie and Earl Washington, for a candid conversation with Robin Roberts about what it was like growing up in the Bronx and about family secrets Kerry reveals in #ThickerThanWater.
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1866, James Haskins wanted to find his son of the same name. The young James Haskins, 17-years-old, had gone off with the Union Army in May 1865. #lastseenproject #BlackHistory #BlackGenealogy #DigitalHistory @NHPRC
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
On this day in 1984, Prince and The Revolution released their iconic soundtrack Purple Rain. The album received 2 Grammys, 3 American Music Awards, 2 Brit Awards, and an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score, and the album remained at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 for 24 weeks.
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This story captures the thrill of actually doing genealogy brilliantly. You'll remember when you first started, too. Well worth a listen!
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NPR recognized Georgianna McKinny’s podcast as the overall winner of the 2023 Student Podcast Challenge! Research, critical thinking, and empathy coalesce in her pod, and I am so proud of her! npr.org/2023/06/21/118172631…
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
I highly recommend listening to this compelling issue of @Radiolab, in which @alexandrianeas and genealogist @neeksmith trace her family’s history and the origins of her last name. At moments, I just stood silently, listening and absorbing. Bless you.
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It’s been 158 years since Juneteenth, yet lawyers and judges still cite to slave cases for good legal precedent. The Citing Slavery Project provides a database of all slave cases, and the modern cases that use them for precedent. #Juneteenth2023 #Juneteenth
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
Principal Chief @ChuckHoskin_Jr gathered with Cherokee Nation leaders and citizens at the Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah to celebrate #Juneteenth! 💜 Chief Hoskin signed a proclamation observing today — June 19, 2023 — as Juneteenth in the Cherokee Nation.
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
Enslaved people in Cherokee Nation achieved their emancipation by a legislative act in 1863 & were guaranteed citizenship in our tribe by the Treaty of 1866. The history of slavery in Native nations, why often left out, is an important part of the story of slavery in the U.S.
Principal Chief @ChuckHoskin_Jr gathered with Cherokee Nation leaders and citizens at the Cherokee National History Museum in Tahlequah to celebrate #Juneteenth! 💜 Chief Hoskin signed a proclamation observing today — June 19, 2023 — as Juneteenth in the Cherokee Nation.
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Tomorrow marks 158 years since slavery ended in the U.S., but the legal cases enforcing slavery are still used as good legal precedent by lawyers and judges today. Spend a few minutes tomorrow learning more about this trend at citingslavery.org. #Juneteenth #Juneteenth2023
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Today I was honored to announce that the @USNatArchives intends to place the Emancipation Proclamation on permanent display inside the Rotunda, joining our nation's foundational documents as a Charter of Freedom. It is a historic day for all Americans!
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Nicka Sewell-Smith retweeted
New: Lauren Davila made a stunning discovery as a graduate student at the College of Charleston: an ad for a slave auction larger than any historian had yet identified. The find yields a new understanding of the enormous harm of such a transaction. propublica.org/article/how-g…
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