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Legacy — Born of Slaves
Future Works Working Title: LEGACY: Born of Slaves Announcement Date: TBD Projected Release Date: TBD The book will be a work of fiction based on facts uncovered during the genealogical research of our family history. The central characters are John Cornutt and his slave family (Rebecca, Henry, George, Frances, Tate and Clark) and their life […]
A Cornute Family History
Future Works Working Title: A Cornute Family History Announcement Date: TBD Projected Release Date: TBD Although we have collected many photos and source documents during our research of the Cornutes, we are putting out this call for any Cornute family documents, photos and stories. We, as Cornute genealogists, are making every effort to publish the […]
The Family Historians Website
The original Family Historian started as an annual newspaper to share information and stories with the family. Family members participated by submitting their special news, recipes, travel, academic and personal achievements, births, obituaries, birthdays, business endeavors, weddings and sports activities. This project proved to be a valuable communication tool for introducing newly-found family. The Family […]
The Family Historian Newspaper
A few years down our genealogy research path while continually hitting goldmine after goldmine of new and exciting family information, it dawned on Tracy that “hey, we’re officially Family Historians”. That term “Family Historians” stayed in the frontal lobe of her brain for quite some time. She finally said that we need to do something […]
Cornutes United and Growing—2015
Cornute Family Reunion Descends on Chicago, Illinois CHICAGO, IL— “It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago. She outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them.” — Mark Twain, 1883 Chicago was only 46 years old when Mark Twain wrote those words, but it had already grown more […]
Cornute Family Tree Banner
This project was first developed in 2001 as we were preparing for the reunion being held in Chicago that year. We wanted to create something special that the family could enjoy viewing while finding their names on the family tree. The initial black and white design, a 3 ft x 10 ft banner, had a […]
Ready For Reunion—2015 in Chicago
CHICAGO, IL—Time is advancing ever so quickly and bringing us closer to the date that the family gets together in joyous reunion. It usually occurs in one of our favorite cities around the country and 2015 is no exception. Our next Cornute reunion, “Ubuntu: Cornute Family United and Growing”, will be held in Chicago, Illinois […]
Family Historians Introduction Video
True to the team’s strengths, Tracy envisioned a short movie trailer to truly inspire the family to visually understand their deep contextual links to American History. Tracy’s always watching or reading about history being the buff that she is and while watching the documentary mini-series America The Story of Us the vision for this project […]