Gaines-Family.Org

05/21/2022

05/17/2022

Have you written a book about your family history? If not, are you considering it someday? I'm looking to begin networking with like-minded authors & would be authors. Writing a book on your family history can be a tremendous task. The process can be eased with a support structure. If your book is already published, maybe you are looking to widen viewership.
The type of author-to-author support network I speak of does not currently exist. But it is needed. It is why I am looking to hear from you. Together we can unlock the mystery of what it takes to become a successful author.
All african-american family history authors & would be authors are welcomed to respond. Either by direct message or comment below.

02/16/2022

This is a quick & easy way of sharing your images with others. Whether it is only a few or hundreds at a time.

06/11/2021

Celebrating the Life of Mr. Jessie Andrews

https://youtu.be/T0PsFdYOxWs

03/25/2021

Ode to the Gaines Family

Growing up at the time I did, I was never a fan of the Big Band era (before my time). But I did enjoy the Oldies But Goodies. Frequently audiotaping directly from radio broadcasts. In the 90's I happened to record from my favorite Oldies station something I had never heard before. Which was a medley of popular big band tunes. Although not a fan of that period, I adored that version of the medley (I later learned it was called "Hooked on Swing"). Each time I would replay it again, visions of my relatives from an earlier generation would abound in my head. I wondered what it would be like to have a collage of pictures moving around in much the same way as I had imagined? 16 years ago was long before I had ever heard of Facebook. I was toying around with my Adobe application called AE. I decided then & there to grab several of my vintage family photos and use AE to generate their movements around my pc screen. I laid down as a soundtrack the Hooked on Swing version I had recorded from the radio years earlier. For someone who had not done anything like it before, I was pleased with the result. Even though the final file size was 1Gb (enormous at the time). Few family members ever got to see it. The ones who did always responded the same way. "Please make a disk copy for me." Even though I did so several times over, it was during the time when just because a disk played good in one machine, did not mean it would on the next. Which is one of the reasons I have created this page on Facebook to go along with the family website. As a place to view such things as this ode to our family members from an era gone by.

Sidenote: Although I have been able to identify what the name of the medley is called, thus far I have been unsuccessful in finding who made this version of it. Which is superior to all similar versions I have heard. Which is why you can hear the radio announcer's voice come on at its very end.

03/22/2021

https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/

https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/genealogy-on-facebook-list-updated-feb-2017/

03/18/2021

https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/

03/17/2021

Sylvester Gaines Sr.

http://gaines-family.org/Front/02_6Child/Sixth_a-html.html

http://gaines-family.org/Generation_2/G1-01_G2/G1-01_G2-06A_Sylvester_Gaines_Sr/G1-01_G2-06A_Sylvester_Gaines_Sr/Album/index.html

03/17/2021

Celestean Lary (1927-2018)

Also known as 'Tine. The Gaines family spans several generations. Out of them all, she is the only one who was an albino. She recounts a harrowing childhood in which she suffered ridicule by members of her own race for the color of her skin. Her physical condition was complicated by eye sensitivity to brightness & poor vision. Some of her experiences as an adult have been edited out.

03/16/2021

"If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel."
-Abraham Lincoln

It was in my early years that I heard the story of Joseph Cinqué & his plight aboard La Amistad. How he was portrayed as launching a revolt against bo***ge. Which is why he is placed in history along side the other great abolistionists. Such as Frederick Douglass, Hariet Tubman & Nat Turner. Such an account as his is well documented all the while his feet are beyond the shores of his native continent.

From the time of my childhood, I was peppered with quotes such as that above from the president. Which leads one to conclude that no documented evidence exists of a named abolistionist within the shores of the motherland. I've been around for a long time. I know of the fighters against colonialism & apartheid. What I would like to know of are the counterparts to the Douglass', the Tubman's & the Turner's. Such that they are known more for their anti-slavery than anything else.

03/15/2021

https://africanamericanexperience.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J42GmsTN6Q4&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuELtMteMGd_Zqg5IM2cCRg