Of the people that owned your families, if you are the descendent of an enslaved person. But from a genealogical perspective, it information on slaveholding families is the most important type of information you are going to get. Within the records of the slaveholding family, you will get records of your ancestors. I will not go too long into this. I know most of us are trying to get out before the snowstorm or ice storm. I know some of you have seen this photograph of the actual building as it existed. Today, 150 years ago, the bill the bank was officially signed into law by president lincoln. It was conceived initially by an abolitionist minister who was originally from new england. His name was john w alfred. During shermans march, he was a chaplain. He served the soldiers. As sherman marched through georgia, most of us are familiar with shermans special field order 15, which, after seeing the conditions of the recently free proclamation, since these population, he felt that since t