1st Blog

Welcome to our new blog!

This is a new process for us "old ladies" so these early efforts may need a lot of editing. I'm sure that, as with all things, we will improve with age . . . (I mean practice).

First we should identify our purpose . . .
We are a mother and daughter team of researchers who travel to courthouses, reading old deed books and transcribing them into a database. We then edit the information we have gathered and have the final result printed and published in both a soft-bound & a hard-back library binding. Our original plan was to locate & index all of the slaves named in the deed books of the local area known as the Ark-La-Tex (Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas) which meant about 6-10 counties.

This goal has expanded and our books contain much more than a mere index. Our books now include statistical data from Census records, Abstracted slave records, a historical perspective, slave law tables, charts, graphs & 2 indexes. Our area of research has spread out from the original Ark-La-Tex counties to encompas most of east & central Texas, & even a part of Mississippi (not yet published). So far we have published the records of 23 counties (in 18 volumes) and have already researched and gathered the records of 10 additional counties which are still in the editing process.

To date we have published 18 volumes which are as follows:

"No Land . . . Only Slaves! Slave Records Abstracted from the Deed Books of the Ark-La-Tex";
Vol. 1 . . . Bossier Parish, Louisiana
Vol. 2 . . . Claiborne Parish, Louisiana
Vol. 3 . . . Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Vol. 4 . . . Harrison, Hunt & Kaufman Co., Texas
Vol. 5 . . . DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
Vol. 6 . . . Lafayette County, Arkansas
Vol. 7 . . . Panola & Grayson Counties in Texas
Vol. 8 . . . Bienville Parish, Louisiana
Vol. 9 . . . Smith & McLennan Counties in Texas
Vol. 10 . . Fannin County, Texas
Vol. 11 . . Upshur & Ellis Counties in Texas
Vol. 12 . . San Augustine County, Texas
Vol. 13 . . Rusk County, Texas
Vol. 14 . . Travis County, Texas
Vol. 15 . . Cass County, Texas
Vol. 16 . . Navarro County, Texas
Vol. 17 . . Bastrop County, Texas
Vol. 18 . . Hempstead County, Arkansas
Vol. 19-40 * watch for forthcoming volumes of "No Land . . . Only Slaves!"

To check out or website go to http://www.slaves.8m.com/