During the period from 1880 to 1900, there was a migration of African American families from Boone County, Kentucky, to Connersville, Indiana. This brought to mind the questions: Who went? When? Why? Where did they go? What did they do when they got there?
This book contains some of the families that that were directly involved in the migration. These are not complete family genealogies, as the main focus of the project was to answer the questions stated above. In the future additional families will be included as information becomes available.
This project is a work in progress, in that the more we learned, the more questions arose. We hope the information provided will spark your interest in learning more about your own heritage, as well as conveying a better understanding of how communities can be related to one another, and how the "personality" and rich heritage of a particular locale can influence communities around it.
