Cary
T. Faison, Jr.
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I
have been conducting family research for approximately nine
years and now serve as the family historian for all sides of my
family tree. The results of my family research into
three family lines (Faison's, Brewington's and Melvin's)
have been documented in the 600-page family narrative White Slaves and Indians in the
Family: One Man's Fascinating Discovery. The highlights of
this research are as follows:
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Just
from being given the name and birthplace of my
paternal great grandfather (Sam Faison) along
with the name of two of his female siblings, I managed to
find him and his wife, fourteen of his siblings, his
parents and the plantation on which all of them had been
enslaved as well as the name of their former slave owner.
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I found a possible bill of sale for Sam's father.
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My research eventually led me to several slave
burial grounds in my great grandfather's hometown of
Faison, North Carolina as well as the site of burial
tombs built for Sam's parents on the
plantation of their former owner.
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I found several
early 20th century local newspapers citing the
slave-owner relationship between my
relatives and other former slaves from the Faison
plantation.
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I even found a collection of oil
paintings depicting some of these individuals.
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During
my years of genealogical research, I have:
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Traced
the most of my slave ancestors back to the 1870
Federal Census
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Found
military and vital (birth, marriage and death)
records for different relatives.
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Traced
back to 1780 a branch of relatives who were listed
as Free Persons and who have always been free.
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Cleared
up several confused and forgotten relationships of distant
family members who have long since passed.
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Connected
to long-lost family members with whom
ties had been lost for more than forty years.
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Tracked
down an individual's long-lost father after she had
been told he was deceased for years. I also was able
to connect
her with two of her half-sisters through her father
from a different marriage.
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Traced
the relatives of numerous friends and other persons
on the federal census over several census years.
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