This is a new project as of February 2009 focusing on Pennsylvania families. We are not limited to those living in Pennsylvania now. If your family is from Virginia or other states and you think that you have relatives who migrated to or through Pennsylvania please join us. Pennsylvania enacted gradual abolition in 1780 some of the folks who were freed between 1780 and 1790 are found on the 1790 census. A concentrated effort to identify nuclear families within this group is hindered because the families did not remain in the same place from census to census. Often they were identified by the name of their owner and not their own name. Elder family members left the area without any census information while their children remained in the home of the family enslaving/indenturing them until they turned 28. Families reunited later in Ohio, West Virginia and Canada. While I have worked for almost 20 years to identify the nuclear families in this population, this project is not about me it is about connecting families. Some of the families found in Pennsylvania between 1810 and 1850 have origins among those enslaved in Maryland and Virginia, some families have origins among those enslaved by George Washington, some families have origins in Africa, and or the Caribbean. Many of the families seem to migrate from the Lancaster Pennsylvania area to other areas of the state. Some families only pass through Pennsylvania on the way to Ohio and points West or Canada. Co Roinn is a family group researching various PA families. There publication for 2009 is: Samuel Fraunces Black Sam, half the proceeds from this publication are going to the general fund of this project for DNA testing. http://www.alibris.com/booksearch.detail?invid=9781304927&wquery=Samuel+Fraunces+%22Black+Sam%22&qwork=11249966&qsort=&page=1 CR Connie COLE