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The #Trask250 project has now hit 8,000+ descendants.

This means that 8,000+ people can trace their ancestry to a network of plantation communities in Wilkinson County, MS, Concordia and Pointe Coupee Parishes in LA that were controlled by the Carter, Trask, and Ventress fams

Records of enslaved ancestors start as early as 1806, ancestor birth years are prior to 1776, and most of the elders were born in Africa having survived the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Almost 600 descendants have been connected to the project through DNA (99% on @ancestrydna) and genealogy.

Most descendants are currently living in Baton Rouge & New Orleans along w/ other communities like Indianola & Woodville, MS, New Roads & Ventress, LA, Memphis, TN…

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Amy Johnson Crow

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Here's what to do if you see "No one home" in the address that you want in the #1950census. First, don't panic. Read the entry. It should say something like "See Sheet 71, Line 4." #genealogy /1

If the family wasn't home when the enumerator came around the first time, they were supposed to revisit them. The "revisits" begin on Sheet 71, at the end of that enumeration district. #1950census /2

"But there aren't 71 pages in my enumeration district!" That's ok. It doesn't matter what sheet number the regular visits end on. The revisits begin on Sheet 71. So the enumeration district could jump from Sheet 12 to Sheet 71 (no pages missing). /3

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Amy Johnson Crow

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